SIPRI Yearbook 2003
Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
‘One of the several paradoxical aspects of the mass killings of 11 September 2001 has been that, while brutally demonstrating the reality of an interconnected world, they have bred policy perceptions and agendas which risk becoming increasingly West-centric.’
‘The debate about whether the USA can be expected to act as an absolutist and unilateralist, or a lawful and cooperative hegemon is one that agitates the USA’s friends much more than its potential foes.’
‘Conflating might and right is a safe strategy only for a state that can be sure of its current supremacy in all dimensions and of keeping that supremacy indefinitely.’
From the Introduction by SIPRI Director Alyson J. K. Bailes
The Yearbook is SIPRI's annual compendium of data and analysis of developments in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.
These pages contain summaries of the Yearbook's chapters, appendices and annexes, details of translations into Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, and summaries in a number of other languages.
About SIPRI Yearbook 2003
The 34th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2002 in
- Security and conflicts
- Military spending and armaments
- Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
with annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events.
Special studies in this volume
- Trends and challenges in international security
- The Euro-Atlantic system and global security
- The African Union
- Major armed conflicts
- Multilateral peace missions
- Afghanistan and the new dynamics of intervention
- The nuclear confrontation in South Asia
- The military and security dimensions of the European Union
- Security sector reform and NATO and EU enlargement
- The processes of budgeting for the military sector in Africa
- The military sector in a changing context
- Military expenditure
- Arms production
- New developments in unmanned air vehicles and land-attack cruise missiles
- International arms transfers
- The financing factor in arms sales
- Arms control in the new security environment
- Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and ballistic missile defence
- World nuclear forces and operational military satellites
- Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
- Conventional arms control in Europe
- Landmines and destruction efforts
- Supply-side measures
- Non-proliferation of ballistic missiles
Essays
Summaries
PDF versions of the pocket-size summaries, produced by SIPRI and in partnership with institutions worldwide, can be downloaded here
- English
- French, in partnership with the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques
- German
- Swedish
Press launch
Download the press release from the launch on 17 June 2003.
