SIPRI YEARBOOK 2004

The 35th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2003 ino Security and conflictso Military spending and armamentso Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmamentThe SIPRI Yearbook contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of events during the year in the area of security and arms control.Studies in this volume:o Iraq: the legacyo Euro-Atlantic organizations and relationshipso The Iraq war: enduring controversies and challenges o Major armed conflicts and multilateral peace missionso Post-conflict justice: developments in international courts o China's new security multilateralism and implications for the Asia-Pacific region o National defence reform and the African Union o Security sector reform in the Western Balkans o Sciences and technology-based military innovation: the United States and Europe. o World military expenditure and arms production o Military expenditure in the Middle East and the Iraq waro Arms industries in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine o International arms transfers and the suppliers of ballistic missile technology o Biological weapons and potential indicators of offensive biological weapon activities o Major trends in arms control and non-proliferationo Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation, world nuclear forces and ballistic missile defenceo Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control o The SARS epidemic and biochemical weapon threats o Conventional arms control o Transfer controls and arms destruction programmes o Withdrawal from arms control treatiesThe annual accounts and analyses are extensively footnoted, providing a comprehensive bibliography in each subject area.