SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International ...

Stockholm IntERnatIOnal
PEAce RESEARch Institute
SIPRI YEARBOOK 2011
Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
The SIPRI Yearbook is a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of
• Security and conflicts
• Military spending and armaments
• Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
This booklet summarizes the 42nd edition of the SIPRI Yearbook, which includes
coverage of developments during 2010 in
• Major armed conflicts
• Multilateral peace operations
• Military expenditure
• Arms production
• International arms transfers
• World nuclear forces and stocks and production of fissile materials
• Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
• Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials
• Conventional arms control and military confidence building
• Strategic trade controls
• Multilateral arms embargoes
as well as special studies on
• Corruption and the arms trade
• Resources and armed conflict
• The fragile consensus in peace operations
and extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements, international
security cooperation bodies and events during 2010 in the area of security and arms
control.