‘In today’s uncertain and complex world, the formulation of goals for security-related action cannot stop at the idea of doing good, and doing it in the right ways. To show, and to convince world opinion, that any given security move is good is perhaps the toughest demand of all.’

From the Introduction by SIPRI Director Alyson J. K. Bailes

The Yearbook is SIPRI's annual compendium of data and analysis of developments in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.

This site contains summaries and the full text of the Yearbook's chapters, appendices and annexes, video presentations, ordering information, details of translations into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian, and summaries in a number of other languages.

About the Yearbook

The 37th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2005 in

• Security and conflicts
• Military spending and armaments
• Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament

This edition includes special studies on

• the world of security and peace research in a 40-year perspective
• status and statehood in the Western Balkans
• Islam, conflict and terrorism
• regional security cooperation in the early 21st century
• national governance of nuclear weapons
• transparency in the arms life cycle
• a 40-year overview of military expenditure data
• international comparisons of military expenditures
• developments in the Russian arms industry
• the security dimension of European collective efforts in space
• reflections on continuity and change in arms control
• legal aspects of the Indian–US Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative
• multilateral control of the nuclear fuel cycle
• enhancing bio-security, the need for a global strategy

along with coverage of developments during 2005 in

• Euro-Atlantic security and institutions
  
• major armed conflicts
• peace-building, the new international focus on Africa
• world military expenditure
  
• arms production
• international arms transfers
• nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
  
• world nuclear forces
• chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control
• conventional arms control
• transfer controls

with extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events.

How to order

SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security

Published in June 2006 by Oxford University Press on behalf of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

ISBN 0–19–929873–4 978–0–19–929873–0 hardback 888 pp. £88/$175

SIPRI Yearbook 2006 can be bought from most booksellers and online bookstores, or directly from OUP:

Translations

Full translations of SIPRI Yearbook 2006 are published

• in Arabic by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS), Beirut;
  
• in Chinese by the China Arms Control And Disarmament Association (CACDA), Beijing;
  
• in Japanese by Hiroshima University Library;
• in Russian by the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow; and
• in Ukrainian by the Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies (UCEPS, Razumkov Centre), Kyiv.

Contact these organizations for more information.

Summaries, produced by SIPRI and in partnership with institutions worldwide, are available in Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish.

Press launch

SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security was launched at a press conference on 12 June 2006.

Watch videos of the launch and presentations by Yearbook authors.

Download the press release and summaries booklet.

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