SIPRI Yearbook 2006
‘In today’s uncertain and complex world, the formulation of goals for security-related action cannot stop at the idea of doing good, and doing it in the right ways. To show, and to convince world opinion, that any given security move is good is perhaps the toughest demand of all.’
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 and the full text of the Yearbook's chapters, appendices and annexes, details of translations into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian, and summaries in a number of other languages.
About SIPRI Yearbook 2006
The 37th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2005 in
- Security and conflicts
- Military spending and armaments
- Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
This edition includes special studies on
- the world of security and peace research in a 40-year perspective
- status and statehood in the Western Balkans
- Islam, conflict and terrorism
- regional security cooperation in the early 21st century
- national governance of nuclear weapons
- transparency in the arms life cycle
- a 40-year overview of military expenditure data
- international comparisons of military expenditures
- developments in the Russian arms industry
- the security dimension of European collective efforts in space
- reflections on continuity and change in arms control
- legal aspects of the Indian–US Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative
- multilateral control of the nuclear fuel cycle
- enhancing bio-security, the need for a global strategy
along with coverage of developments during 2005 in
- Euro-Atlantic security and institutions
- major armed conflicts
- peace-building, the new international focus on Africa
- world military expenditure
- arms production
- international arms transfers
- nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
- world nuclear forces
- chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control
- conventional arms control
- transfer controls
with extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events.
Summaries
PDF versions of the pocket-size summaries, produced by SIPRI and in partnership with institutions worldwide, can be downloaded here
- Catalan, in partnership with Fundació per la Pau
- Dutch, in partnership with the Flemish Peace Institute
- English
- French, in partnership with the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques
- German, in partnership with the Institut für Friedenspädagogik Tübingen e.V.
- Spanish, in partnership with Centro de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Swedish
Video presentations
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Introduction
Alyson J. K. Bailes, SIPRI Director - Trends in major armed conflicts
Caroline Holmqvist, SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme - Developments in chemical and biological warfare and arms control
Richard Guthrie, SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare Project - Multilateral control of the nuclear fuel cycle
Vitaly Fedchenko, SIPRI Reinforcing EU Cooperative Threat Reduction Programmes Project
Press launch
Videos and press release from the press launch, 12 June 2006
- Introduction
Alyson J. K. Bailes, SIPRI Director - Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation in 2005
Shannon N. Kile, SIPRI Non-proliferation and Export Control Project -
Conflicts and multilateral peace missions in 2005
Neil Melvin, SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme - World military expenditure in 2005
Petter Stålenheim, Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme - Press release
