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Press Launch, 11:00–14:00, 12 June 2006
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YEARBOOK
SIPRI
2006
ARMAMENTS,
DISARMAMENT AND
INTERNATIONAL
SECURITY
Contents
Introduction. The world of peace and security research in a 40-year perspective 1
Chapter 1. Euro-Atlantic security and institutions 3
Chapter 2. Major armed conflicts 5
Chapter 3. Peace-building: the new international focus on Africa 7
Chapter 4. Regional security cooperation in the early 21st century 9
Chapter 5. National governance of nuclear weapons: opportunities and constraints 11
Chapter 6. Transparency in the arms life cycle 12
Chapter 7. Military expenditure data: a 40-year overview 14
Chapter 8. Military expenditure 15
Chapter 9. Arms production 16
Chapter 10. International arms transfers 18
Chapter 11. The security dimension of European collective efforts in space 19
Chapter 12. Reflections on continuity and change in arms control 21
Chapter 13. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation 22
Chapter 14. Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control 24
Chapter 15. Conventional arms control 26
Chapter 16. Transfer controls 27
Annexes 27
About the authors 28
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Chapter summaries 1
Introduction. The world of peace and security research in a
40-year perspective
Alyson J. K. Bailes
In its 40 years of existence, SIPRI has
witnessed a shift from the clear-cut bipolar
confrontation of the cold war to a much
more complicated strategic environment.
No simple formula such as North–South or
West–West confrontation, a new US
‘empire’, or the...