The 40th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2008 in o Security and conflictso Military spending and armamentso 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.
Readership: Scholars and students of strategic studies, international relations, peace studies, and war studies.
"Overall the SIPRI Yearbook 2009 is highly recommended to readers who wish to acquire basic knowledge and quantative data on recent developments, including international crises and peace agreements; they will find here a useful survey which does not only focus upon state actors but also assesses critically the role of non-state actors in the international arena." - Didem Buhari-Gulmez, Royal Holloway University, London, in Political Studies Review