SIPRI

SIPRI Yearbook 2008
Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security

The 39th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses key developments in 2007 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation; arms control; and disarmament. This major publication will also contain extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements, and a chronology of security- and arms-control related events.

Terrorism in Asymmetric Conflict
Ideological and Structural Aspects

This volume combines qualitative research with the analysis of available data on trends in modern terrorism and the use of primary sources and writings. It puts forwad an original typology of terrorism based on the overall level of a militant group's goals and the extent to which its terrorist activities are linked to a broader armed conflict.

Humanitarian Military Intervention
The Conditions for Success and Failure

This book asks, 'Have past humanitarian military interventions been successful?' It defines success as saving lives and sets out a methodology for estimating the number of lives saved by a particular military intervention. Analysis of 17 military operations in six conflict areas that were the defining cases of the 1990s-northern Iraq after the Gulf War, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo and East Timor-shows that the majority were successful by this measure.

The Nordic Countries
and the European Security and Defence Policy

This multi-author volume combines the techniques of reporting and analysis, debate and reduction, to illuminate the consequences for the five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The views expressed in it by Nordic and non-Nordic, younger and more established analysts reflect the political and intellectual ferment triggered in the Nordic region by these developments: in the process shedding light on defence and security challenges that matter deeply for Europe as a whole.

Europe and Iran
Perspectives on Non-Proliferation

Edited by Shannon N. Kile

This Report examines the EU's strategy to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the context of Iranian internal security policy decision making. The Report highlights some of the problems and possibilities inherent in the EU's efforts to implement a more targeted, multifunctional strategy to prevent WMD proliferation.

Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa
The Processes and Mechanisms of Control

Edited by Wuyi Omitoogun and Eboe Hutchful

In this comprehensive study, 12 experts describe and analyse the military budgetary processes and degree of oversight and control in eight African countries, spanning the continent's sub-regions. These analyses provide the basis for concrete recommendations to the governments of African countries and the international community.

The Evolution of Biological Disarmament

The evolution of the disarmament regime of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) is described from 1980, when the first BTWC Review Conference was held, until 1998. The author analyses the results of SIPRI's first four review Conferences.