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This new book analyses Russia's security issues and the emerging geopolitical balance in Central Asia, South-West Asia, South Asia and Asia-Pacific. It examines the domestic political background to Russia's foreign and security policy and the importance of Asia in its domestic and foreign policy.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the global basing networks of the major powers, including their types, their locations and the politics and economics of their acquisition. The crucial link between arms transfers and the politics of basing is emphasized.

This study explores the evolution of Indian defence policy since 1947. The author examines the domestic dynamics of the issue, concluding that India's defence policy is designed more as one aspect of the quest for great power status than as an attempt to acquire security at an affordable price.

This comprehensive book deals with a wide range of issues in a concise and accurate manner, summarizing SIPRI's work in the field over the past twenty years.

This book results from a research programme jointly financed by SIPRI and the United Nations Environment Programme, and examines the way in which certain resource limitations, such as water, oil, fisheries, can lead to conflict.

Aims to explain the network of international relations in Europe that have come about as a result of the events of late 1989. The book includes several important documents of the time as well as papers delivered by German politicians at Potsdam in February 1990.

This work demonstrates the link between military technology and conflict, which is more palpable in southern Asia than elsewhere, while suggesting that it must be approached in a more nuanced way than has been the case so far in discussions of the region.

This text looks at the arms procurement decision-making processes in China, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. It examines whether or not national arms procurement processes can become more responsive to the broader objectives of security and public accountability.

This study focuses on the questions of when and how military intervention in conflicts can achieve humanitarian benefits. It uses the standard that an intervention should do more good than harm to evaluate the successes and failures.

A detailed assessment of the conditions for security relations between Washington and Moscow in the post-Cold War era, focusing on the scope for the future co-operative management of common security.

Naval arms control has become increasingly prominent in recent years, but is usually studied from the perspective of Soviet-American relations. This book examines the subject from a European perspective.

This study presents different views on nuclear disarmament and arms control. It offers a brief history of nuclear non-proliferation policy and the nuclear test ban issue.

in this book, experts describe how the framework for producing arms in Western Europe has altered in recent years, and how various actors-firms, governments, and unions-are adapting to the new situation.

The value of major conventional weapons imported by Third World countries between 1971 and 1985 was quadruple that for the previous two decades. This book gives a comprehensive overview of this trade during the period 1971-1985.

In 1999 the EU decided to develop its own military capacities for crisis management. This book brings together a group of experts to examine the consequences of this decision on Nordic policy establishments, as well as to shed new light on the defence and security issues that matter for Europe as a whole.

This book is a comparative study of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the USSR - as multinational, federal communist states - and the reaction to these parallel collapses of European and US foreign policy.

These essays examine links between the threats to humankind of military devastation and environmental exhaustion, focusing on the ways in which cultural norms concerning the environment have inhibited the preparations for, and conduct of war, and suggesting how such norms could be developed.

A reference of the world inventory of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium, this book should be of interest to: professionals, lay people and students concerned with strategic studies, peace studies and international relations; and consultants, policy-makers, and journalists.

The Nobel Symposium on A Future Arms Control Agenda was organized by SIPRI to consider how arms control can contribute to creating a cooperative security system based on the peaceful resolution of disputes and the gradual demilitarization of international relations. This work includes proceedings of the symposium with comprehensive discussions.

Considers in particular whether arms procurement can become more responsive to the broader objectives of security and public accountability. This volume also includes case studies similar to the ones covered in the first volume that examined in detail the processes that lie behind arms procurement decisions in six arms-recipient countries.

Bringing together a variety of experts in business, government, and international organizations, this is a major new evaluation of the growing interdependence of the private and public sectors in tackling present-day security challenges.

Aaron Karp addresses the current concern that ballistic missile technologies are spreading throughout the world. He examines the missile and missile-armament programmes and technologies, and the ability of countries to acquire such technologies. The final chapter investigates the international efforts to control ballistic missile proliferation.

Trevor Findlay reveals the history of the use of force by UN peacekeepers from Sinai in the 1950s to Haiti in the 1990s and examines proposals for future conduct of UN operations, including the formulation of UN peacekeeping doctrine and the establishment of a UN rapid reaction force.

This text examines the proliferation of nuclear weapons and is intended for scholars and students concerned with strategic studies, peace studies and international relations, as well as consultants, journalists and policy-makers specializing in these areas.