SIPRI Yearbook 2024 available online

The 55^th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook is now available on SIPRI Yearbook Online. The SIPRI Yearbook 2024 provides expert analysis, insightful commentary, and painstakingly-compiled data on events and happenings in global security, armaments, disarmament, and conflicts, which have taken place during 2023. It provides a timely and pertinent picture of the state of world affairs and the unique challenges faced by the international community - an essential resource for academics, policymakers, professionals, and students alike.

The SIPRI Yearbook 2024, as well as editions going back to 2010, is available on SIPRI Yearbook Online and available for purchase by both institutions and individuals.

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Key topics covered in the 55^th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook include:
 

• Armed conflict and conflict management, including an overview of global and regional developments in armed conflicts, peace processes and peace operations, along with thematic sections on the role of Russian private military and security companies, food insecurity, and climate-related peace and security risks in Yemen
• Military expenditure, international arms transfers and developments in arms production, including the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war and ongoing geopolitical tensions
• World nuclear forces, with an overview of each of the nine nuclear-armed states and their nuclear modernization programmes
• Nuclear arms control, covering the dialogues involving China, Russia and the United States and within multilateral treaties, as well as the response to Iran's nuclear programme and attacks on Ukrainian nuclear power plants
• Chemical, biological and health security threats, including the investigations of allegations of chemical and biological weapon use and developments in the international legal instruments against chemical and biological warfare
• Conventional arms control and regulation of inhumane weapons, with a focus on the use of explosive weapons in the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars, as well as the consequences of missile proliferation and the collapse of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
• International governance of artificial intelligence, cyberspace and space security, with a focus on autonomous weapon systems
• Dual-use and arms trade controls, including developments in the Arms Trade Treaty, multilateral arms embargoes and export control regimes, and the legal framework of the European Union for such controls

It also contains updated annexes listing arms control and disarmament agreements, international security cooperation bodies, and key events in 2023.