Sipri Yearbook 2021 [Hardcover]

The 52nd edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2020 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation; arms control; and disarmament.The SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict management, along with efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.This 52nd edition of the SIPRI Yearbook covers developments during 2020, includingBLArmed conflicts and conflict management, with an overview of armed conflicts and peace processes across the Americas, Asia and Oceania, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a focus on global and regional trends in peace operations and the United Nations appeal for a global ceasefire to address the Covid-19 pandemicBLMilitary expenditure, international arms transfers and developments in arms productionBLWorld nuclear forces, with an overview of each of the nine nuclear-armed states and their nuclear modernization programmesBLNuclear arms control, featuring developments in RussianUnited States strategic dialogue, Iran's nuclear deal and the multilateral nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties, including the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsBLChemical and biological security threats, including the impact of the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic, the investigation of allegations of chemical weapon use in Syria and developments in the international legal instruments against chemical and biological warfareBLConventional arms control, with a focus on global instruments, including efforts to regulate lethal autonomous weapon systems, state behaviour in cyberspace and space, and devlÃN