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SIPRI Yearbook 2008
Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
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
This site contains summaries of the chapters, appendices and annexes, samples of the Yearbook's contents, ordering information, details of translations into Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, and summaries in a number of other languages. Read the chapter summaries by navigating through contents on the left or download the Yearbook summary booklet.
Press launch
SIPRI Yearbook 2008: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security was launched at a press conference on 9 June 2008.
Download the press release and the Yearbook summary.
Videos of the press launch presentations on armed conflicts, military spending and armaments and nuclear arms control are available here.
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.
Translations
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 will be translated into
- Arabic by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS), Beirut;
- Chinese by the China Arms Control And Disarmament Association (CACDA), Beijing;
- Russian by the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow; and
- Ukrainian by the Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies (UCEPS, Razumkov Centre), Kyiv.
Please contact these organizations for further details.
Yearbook summaries
Summaries of the Yearbook are available in
- 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