SIPRI Yearbook 2001: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security

The 32nd edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2000 in o Security and conflicts o Military spending and armaments o Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament It contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events. Studies in this volume: o major armed conflicts o armed conflict prevention, management and resolution o analyses of the breakdown of the peace processes in Sierra Leone and in the Middle East o regional study of Europe and the enlargement of European security institutions o world military expenditure and arms production o in-depth study of Russian military expenditure and arms production o transfers of major conventional weapons o the international trade in small arms and light weapons and their use in conflicts o nuclear arms control and missile defence o chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control o analysis of the 2000 NPT Review Conference o illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials o conventional arms control and confidence- and security-building measures o the European Union's approaches to arms control and disarmament o multilateral weapon and technology export controls