SIPRI Yearbook 2018 available online
September 12, 2018
The 49th edition of the essential SIPRI Yearbook is now available on SIPRI Yearbook Online. The SIPRI Yearbook 2018 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 2017. 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 2018, as well as editions going back to 2010, is available on SIPRI Yearbook Online and available for purchase by both institutions and individuals.
Find out how to access the SIPRI Yearbook Online
Key topics covered in the 2018 Yearbook include:
- Analysis of armed conflicts that was active in at least 22 states in 2017
- Multilateral peace and non-peace operations in 2017, including the regional trends and developments in peace operations
- Global military spending trend in 2017 and how it reached the highest level since the end of the cold war
- Financial value of states’ arms exports, international arms transfers and developments in arms production
- Comprehensive surveys of world nuclear forces, including North Korea’s military nuclear capabilities
- Overview and analysis of the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
- Chemical and biological arms control and the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Iraq and North Korea
- Analysing the gaps in humanitarian arms control and disarmament law
- Developments in the Arms Trade Treaty and on dual-use and arms trade controls
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