SIPRI Yearbook 2023 PDF Download

Author: Stockholm International Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher: SIPRI Yearbook
ISBN: 9780198890720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict management, as well as efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. This 54th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook covers developments during 2022, including 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. It also contains annexes listing arms control and disarmament agreements, international security cooperation bodies, and key events in 2022.