SIPRI Yearbook 2017 available online

The 48th edition of the essential SIPRI Yearbook is now available on SIPRI Yearbook Online. The SIPRI Yearbook 2017 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 2016. 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 2017, as well as editions going back to 2010, are available on SIPRI Yearbook Online and available for purchase by both institutions and individuals.

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Key topics covered in the 2017 Yearbook include:

• Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, including the international response to the Islamic State and the investigation of allegations of chemical weapons use in the region
• European security, with studies on the recent developments in conflicts in the post-Soviet space, Turkey’s search for stability after the attempted coup, and the current state of conventional arms control in Europe
• Analysis of the peace agreement in Colombia
• Global and regional trends in armed conflict data, regional patterns of Islamist armed conflicts, peace operations, military expenditure, and arms production
• Current conceptualizations of peace and development and how they relate to the new United Nations framework of ‘sustaining peace’
• Linkages between climate change and violent conflict
• Comprehensive surveys of world nuclear forces, including the North Korean nuclear test explosions
• Russian–US nuclear arms control, implementation of Iran’s nuclear deal, and developments towards a nuclear weapons test ban treaty
• Developments in humanitarian arms control and new guidance on the Geneva Conventions and their application in urban warfare