The 2003 Yearbook analyses developments in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments, and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament, with annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events.

The SIPRI Yearbook aims to serve as an authoritative and independent source to which politicians, diplomats and journalists can turn for an account of what has happened during the past year in armaments and arms control, armed conflicts and conflict resolution, security arrangements and disarmament.