SIPRI Yearbook 2008
Voices from across the political spectrum are coming to recognize again the value of arms control in the face of looming threats to humankind.
From the Introduction by Dr Bates Gill, SIPRI Director
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 is a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of
- Security and conflicts
- Military spending and armaments
- Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
These pages contain summaries and 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.
About SIPRI Yearbook 2008
Highlights of the 39th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook include special studies on- a call to arms control
- the human security approach to direct and structural violence
- integrating gender in post-conflict security sector reform
- US ballistic missile defence programmes
- nuclear forensic analysis
- international public health diplomacy and the global surveillance of avian influenza
along with coverage of developments during 2007 in
- Euro-Atlantic security institutions and relationships
- armed conflicts
- peace operations
- military expenditure
- arms production
- international arms transfers
- nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
- world nuclear forces and fissile material stocks
- reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials
- conventional arms control
- controls on security-related international transfers
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 also has extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements, international organizations and intergovernmental bodies, and a chronology of events during 2007 in the area of security and arms control.
Summaries
Summaries of the Yearbook are available in
- Arabic
- 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.
- Japanese, in partnership with Hiroshima University Library
- Spanish, in partnership with Centro de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Swedish
