The Yearbook is SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)'s annual compendium of data and analysis of developments in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.

The SIPRI Yearbook is a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of

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

This booklet summarizes the 39th edition of the Yearbook, which includes special studies on

• the human security approach to direct and structural violence
• integrating gender in post-conflict security sector reform
• US ballistic missile defence programmes
• nuclear forensic analysis
• international public health diplomacy and the global surveillance of avian influenza

along with coverage of developments during 2007 in

• Euro-Atlantic security institutions and relationships
• armed conflicts
• peace operations
• military expenditure
• arms production
• international arms transfers
• nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
• world nuclear forces and fissile material stocks
• reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials
• conventional arms control
• controls on security-related international transfers

The SIPRI Yearbook also has extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements, international organizations and intergovernmental bodies, and a chronology of events during 2007 in the area of security and arms control.

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CONTENTS

Introduction. A call to arms control 2
PART I SECURITY AND CONFLICTS
Chapter 1. Euro-Atlantic security institutions and relationships 3
Chapter 2. Trends in armed conflicts 4
Appendix 2C. The human security approach to direct and structural violence
Chapter 3. Planning and deploying peace operations 7
Chapter 4. Integrating gender in post-conflict security sector reform 9
PART II MILITARY SPENDING AND ARMAMENTS
Chapter 5. Military expenditure 10
Chapter 6. Arms production 12
Chapter 7. International arms transfers 14
PART III NON-PROLIFERATION, ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
Chapter 8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation 16
Appendix 8D. Nuclear forensic analysis 18
Chapter 9. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials 19
Appendix 9A. International public health diplomacy and the global surveillance of avian influenza 20
Chapter 10. Conventional arms control 21
Chapter 11. Controls on security-related international transfers 22
Annexes 23

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SIPRI and the SIPRI Yearbook

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent international institute for research into problems of peace and conflict, especially those of arms control and disarmament. SIPRI was established in 1966 to commemorate 150 years of unbroken peace in Sweden.

Research is conducted at SIPRI by an international staff of researchers. The Institute’s current research programme centres on the following projects:

• Armed Conflicts and Conflict Management
• Arms Transfers
• Euro-Atlantic, Regional and Global Security
• Military Expenditure and Arms Production
• Non-proliferation and Export Control
• Arms Control and Disarmament Documentary Survey
• IT projects, including the FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends) online database

The SIPRI Yearbook was first published in 1969 and is now in its 39th edition. SIPRI Yearbook 2008 presents a combination of original data in areas such as world military expenditure, international arms transfers, arms production, nuclear forces, major armed conflicts and multilateral peace operations with state-of-the-art analysis of important aspects of arms control, peace and international security. The Yearbook is written by both SIPRI researchers and invited outside experts.

This booklet summarizes the contents of the SIPRI Yearbook 2008 and gives samples of the data and information in its appendices and annexes.

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