SIPRI Yearbook 2004

Armaments, Disarmament and International Security

‘The USA proved that it can destroy its enemies, but it proved unable to compel its friends.’

‘Human beings cannot be made free, let alone happy, by placing them in a protective security cage. The already very difficult task of achieving democratic transformation in non-Western societies will not be helped if the West is seen as slowly consuming its own stock of inherited liberties, while trying to impose freedom (a contradiction in terms) on others.’

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.

The 35th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2003 in

Security and conflicts
Military spending and armaments
Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament

These pages contain summaries and the full text 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.

Introduction. Iraq: the legacy

Part I. Security and conflicts, 2003

1. Euro-Atlantic institutions and relationships
2. The Iraq war: the enduring controversies and challenges
3. Major armed conflicts
4. Multilateral peace missions
5. Post-conflict justice: developments in international courts
6. China's new security multilateralism and its implications for the Asia-Pacific region
7. National defence reform and the African Union
8. Security sector reform in the Western Balkans

Part II. Military spending and armaments, 2003

9. Science- and technology-based military innovation: the United states and Europe
10. Military expenditure
11. Arms production
12. International arms transfers
13. Biological weapons and potential indicators of offensive biological weapon activities

Part III. Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament, 2003

14. Major trends in arms control and non-proliferation
15. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
16. Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control
17. Conventional arms control
18. Transfer controls and destruction programmes
19. Withdrawal from arms control treaties

Annexes

Annex A. Arms control and disarmament agreements
Annex B. Chronology 2003