SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security

The SIPRI Yearbook is known worldwide as an authoritative and independent source for politicians, diplomats, journalists, scholars, students and citizens on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, the arms trade and arms production, and armed conflicts, along with efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

The first edition of the SIPRI Yearbook was released in 1969, with the aim of producing ‘a factual and balanced account of a controversial subject-the arms race and attempts to stop it’. The 46 editions of the Yearbook published so far have gathered important data on world military spending, the arms trade and nuclear forces, among other topics.

Over the years these data sets have been refined and new data sets added, thereby improving the accuracy of key source materials. Together with SIPRI’s rigorous editorial standards, this continual qualitative improvement in the data makes the SIPRI Yearbook a ‘unique and indispensable’ reference work.

The SIPRI Yearbook is published in print and online by Oxford University Press (OUP).

CURRENT EDITION: SIPRI YEARBOOK 2015

• aspects of the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine;
• regional military-security trends in East Asia;
• military spending in the US;
• the continued negotiations around Iran's nuclear programme; and
• the entry into force of the Arms Trade Treaty.

Reviews and testimonials

'For more than 40 years, the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has been at the forefront of providing the most up-to-date data and analysis on matters of international security. The latest volume in the authoritative SIPRI Yearbook series continues the proud tradition with a wealth of information about state armaments and their employment in conflict, enhanced by an online edition.' 
LSE Review of Books (2013)