SIPRI Yearbook 2007
Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
The Yearbook is SIPRI's annual compendium of data and analysis of developments in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.
This site contains summaries of the chapters, appendices and annexes, the full text of much of the Yearbook's contents, ordering information, details of translations into Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, and summaries in a number of other languages.
About the Yearbook
The 38th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2006 in
- Security and conflicts
- Military spending and armaments
- Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
This volume includes special studies on
- a world of risk
- collective violence beyond the standard definition of armed conflict
- regional security cooperation in the former Soviet area
- democratic accountability of intelligence services
- energy and security
- analysing risks to human lives
- towards an arms trade treaty
- reducing risks by controlling possession and use of civil materials
- UN Security Council Resolution 1540 and non-proliferation by means of
international legislation - global stocks, production and elimination of fissile materials
- global efforts to control MANPADS
along with coverage of developments during 2006 in
- major armed conflicts
- peacekeeping
- world military expenditure
- arms production
- international arms transfers
- nuclear arms control, non-proliferation
- world nuclear forces and nuclear explosions, 1945–2006
- chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
- conventional arms control
- controls on security-related international transfers
with extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events.
How to order
SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
Published in June 2007 by Oxford University Press on behalf of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
ISBN 978–0–19–923021–1 hardback 752 pp. £85/$180
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Press launch, June 2007

SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security was launched at a press conference on 11 June 2007.
Watch videos of the presentations
Download the press release and summaries booklet.Translations
Full translations of SIPRI Yearbook 2007 are published
- in Arabic by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS), Beirut;
- in Chinese by the China Arms Control And Disarmament Association (CACDA), Beijing;
- in Russian by the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow; and
- in Ukrainian by the Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies (UCEPS, Razumkov Centre), Kyiv.
Contact these organizations for more information.
Summaries, produced by SIPRI and in partnership with institutions worldwide, are available in English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish. The longer chapter summaries are also available in Korean.