SIPRI yearbook 2002: armaments, disarmaments and international security
- Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 2002
- 845p.
Annual publication with international coverage that has a wealth of statistics, and surveys recent developments in the following broad areas:Part 1: Security and conflicts 2001.Part 2: Military spending and armaments 2001 - including military expenditure; research and development; arms production and defence industry; arms transfers.Part 3: Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament 2001 - 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 2001. 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. This edition also includes a short study of the implications for global security of the September 11 terrorist attacks.