The 35th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyzes key developments in 2003 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; and 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.

• Introduction Iraq: The Legacy


• Part I: Security and Conflicts 2003


• 1: Pàl Dunnay and Zdzislaw Lachowski: Euro-Atlantic Organizations and Relationships


• 2: Andrew Cottey: The Iraq War: The Enduring Controversies and Challenges


• 3: Renata Dwan and Micaela Gustavsson: Major Armed Conflicts


• Appendix 3A: Patterns of Major Armed Conflicts 1990-2003


• Appendix 3B: Definitions, Sources, and Methods for the Conflict Data


• 4: Renata Dwan and Sharon Wiharta: Multilateral Peace Missions


• 5: Sharon Wiharta: Post-conflict Justice: Developments in International Courts


• 6: Bates Gill: China's New Security Multilateralism and its Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region


• 7: Rocky Williams: National Defence Reform and the African Union


• 8: Marina Caparini: Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans


• Part II: Military Spending and Armaments 2003


• 9: Björn Hagelin: Science- and Technology-based Military Intervention: The United States and Europe


• 10: Elisabeth Sköns, Catalina Perdomo, Sam Perlo-Freeman, and Petter Stålenheim: Military Expenditure


• Appendix 10A: Tables of Military Expenditure


• Appendix 10B: Tables of NATO Military Expenditure by Category


• Appendix 10C: Sources and Methods for Military Expenditure Data


• Appendix 10D: The Reporting of Military Expenditure Data


• Appendix 10E: Military Expenditure in the Middle East After the Iraq War


• 11: Elisabeth Sköns, Sibylle Bauer, and Eamon Surry: Arms Production


• Appendix 11A: The 100 Largest Arms-producing Companies 2002


• Appendix 11B: Table of Acquisitions 2003


• Appendix 11C: The Arms Industries of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus


• 12: Björn Hagelin, Mark Bromley, and Siemon T. Wezeman: International Arms Transfers


• Appendix 12A: The Volume of Transfers of Major Weapons: by Recipients and Suppliers 1999-2003


• Appendix 12B: Register of the Trade in and Licensed Production of Major Conventional Weapons 2003


• Appendix 12C: Sources and Methods for Arms Transfers Data


• Appendix 12D: Suplliers of Ballistic Missile Technology


• 13: Roger Roffey: Biological Weapons and Potential Indicators of Offensive Biological Weapon Activities


• Part III: Non-proliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament 2003


• 14: Ian Anthony: Major Trends in Arms Control and Non-proliferation


• 15: Nuclear Arms Control and Non-proliferation


• Appendix 15A: World Nuclear Forces


• Appendix 15B: Ballistic Missile Defence


• 16: Richard Guthrie, John Hart, Frida Kuhlau, and Jacqueline Simon: Chemical and Biological Warfare Developments and Arms ControL


• Appendix 16A: The SARS Epidemic: The Control of Infectious Diseases and Biological Weapon Threats


• 17: Zdzislaw Lachowski and Martin Sjögren: Conventional Arms Control


• 18: Ian Anthony and Sibylle Bauer: Transferable Controls and Destruction Programmes


• 19: Christer Ahlström: Withdrawal from Arms Control Treaties


• Annexes