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Sipri Yearbook 2017 - Armaments, Disarmament and International Security

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The 48th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2016 in:

-Security and conflicts
-Military spending and armaments
-Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament

The SIPRI Yearbook contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of events during the year in the area of security and arms control.

List of contents

  • 1. Introduction: international security, armaments and disarmament: Dan Smith

  • Part I. Armed conflicts and conflict management, 2016


  • Overview

  • I. Patterns of organized violence, 200716

  • II. Out of the darkness? The hope for peace in Colombia

  • III. Mapping armed conflicts over Islamist claims: exploring regional variations

  • IV. The Global Peace Index 2017


  • Overview

  • I. The Middle East and North Africa: 2016 in perspective

  • II. The Islamic State in 2016: a failing caliphate but a growing transnational threat?

  • III. Military spending and arms transfers to the Middle East and North Africa


  • Overview

  • I. Conflict or peace in Europe? Increasing uncertainties, rising insecurities

  • II. Conflicts in the post-Soviet space: recent developments

  • III. Turkeys search for stability and legitimacy in 2016


  • Overview

  • I. Global trends in peace operations

  • II. Regional trends and developments

  • III. Protection of civilians: the case of South Sudan

  • IV. Table of multilateral peace operations, 2016

  • Part II. Security and development, 2016


  • Overview

  • I. Peace and development

  • II. Sustaining peace: the new overarching United Nations framework

  • III. Delivering as one: other multilateral mechanisms for sustaining peace

  • IV. The peace being sustained: operationalizing prevention


  • Overview

  • I. Introduction

  • II. Displacement dangers

  • III. Crises of forced displacement in fragile contexts: key developments in 2016

  • IV. United Nations and regional responses to displacement crises

  • V. Conclusions


  • Overview

  • I. Exploring the climateconflict link: the case of East Africa

  • II. Weather-related disasters and violent conflict

  • Part III. Military spending and armaments, 2016


  • Overview

  • I. Global developments in military expenditure

  • II. US military expenditure

  • III. Oil price shocks and military expenditure

  • IV. The backdating of SIPRI military expenditure data

  • V. Transparency in military expenditure data


  • Overview

  • I. Developments in arms transfers, 2016

  • II. Arms transfers as military aid

  • III. Transparency in arms transfers

  • IV. The financial value of states arms exports

  • V. Arms production and military services


  • Overview

  • I. US nuclear forces
  • About the author










    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis, and recommendations, based on opens sources, to policymakers, researchers, media, and the interested public.


    Summary

    The 48th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2016 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation; arms control; and disarmament.

    Additional text

    Next years report is a 'must'.

    Report

    Next years report is a 'must'. Frank Boulton, SIPRI 2017.

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