SIPRI Yearbook 2003: armaments, disarmament and international security

Annual publication with international coverage. Has a wealth of statistics and surveys recent developments in the following broad areas:Part 1: Security and conflicts 2002.Part 2: Military spending and armaments 2002 - including military expenditure; research and development; arms production and defence industry; arms transfers.Part 3: Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament 2002 - including appendices on nuclear arms control; chemical and biological weapons control; conventional arms control; multilateral weapon and technology export controls.Annexes include the text of arms control and disarmaments agreements and a chronology of events in 2002. At the front of the book there is a guide to acronyms, a glossary, and details of membership of international organisations such as the UN, IAEA, ASEAN. The introductory essays cover trends in international security; terrorism and the law; and the importance of non-military threats (using Switzerland as an example).