SIPRI yearbook, 2015: armaments, disarmament and international security

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This 46th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook covers developments during 2014 including: DT Essays on the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, as well as studies on the relationship of gender equality to peace and armed conflict, and the diversity of peace and war in Africa, DT East Asian and European security, as well as global and regional trends in peace operations, and development challenges in fragile states, DT Military expenditure, arms production and international arms transfers DT World nuclear forces, with an overview of each of the nine nuclear-armed states, DT Iran's nuclear programme and multilateral arms control and disarmament, DT Implications of the Ebola outbreak and the challenge of addressing CBW issues in conflict zones, DT The Arms Trade Treaty, multilateral arms embargoes and export control regimes as well as a 10-year overview of patterns of armed violence, a summary of the Global Peace Index, and extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements, international security bodies and events in 2014.