Publisher's Synopsis
The 32nd edition of the "SIPRI Yearbook" analyses developments in 2000 in: security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. It contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security - and arms control - related events.;Studies in this volume include: major armed conflicts; armed conflict prevention, management and resolution; analyses of the breakdown of the peace processes in Sierra Leone and in the Middle East; regional study of Europe and the enlargement of European security institutions; world military; expenditure and arms production; in-depth study of Russian military expenditure and arms production; transfers of major conventional weapons; the international trade in small arms and light weapons and their use in conflicts; nuclear arms control and missile defence; chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control; analysis of the 2000 NPT Review Conference; illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials; conventional arms control and confidence- and security-building measures; the European Union's approaches to arms control and disarmament; and multilateral weapon and technology export controls.
