| The 35th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2003 in
• Security and conflicts
• Military spending and armaments
• Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
with extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events. Studies in this volume
• Euro-Atlantic organizations and relationships
• the Iraq war
• major armed conflicts and multilateral peace missions
• developments in international courts
• China’s new security multilateralism
• national defence reform and the African Union
• security sector reform in the Western Balkans
• science- and technology-based military innovation
• world military expenditure and arms production
• international arms transfers, and the suppliers of ballistic missile technology
• potential indicators of offensive biological weapon activities
• major trends in arms control and non-proliferation
• nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
• world nuclear forces and ballistic missile defence
• chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control
• the SARS epidemic
• conventional arms control
• transfer controls and destruction programmes
• withdrawal from arms control treaties
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