SIPRI Yearbook 2023 available online

The 54th edition of the essential SIPRI Yearbook is now available on SIPRI Yearbook Online. The SIPRI Yearbook 2023 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 2022. 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 2023, 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 54th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook include:
 

• Armed conflict and conflict management, with an overview of global and regional trends in armed conflicts, peace processes and peace operations, as well as a focus on the role of private military and security companies
• The war in Ukraine, including its impact on military spending and European arms control, the role of space and cyber domains, and efforts to impose international trade restrictions on Russia
• Military expenditure, international arms transfers and developments in arms production
• World nuclear forces, with an overview of each of the nine nuclear-armed states and their nuclear modernization programmes
• Nuclear arms control, featuring developments in the Russian-United States strategic dialogue and multilateral nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties, as well as the response to attacks on Ukrainian nuclear power plants
• Chemical, biological and health security threats, including the investigation 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 new weapon technologies, with a focus on inhumane weapons and other conventional weapons of humanitarian concern, including efforts to regulate 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.