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Examining developments in the world security
environment for the year 1998, this annual study explores three main areas;
security and conflicts; military spending and armaments, and non-proliferation,
arms control and disarmament.
"Although in 1998 there were fewer
major armed conflicts than in 1989, world security has not made significant
progress since the cold war ended. New concerns are generated by different
factors both of an internal and of an international nature. On the one
hand, some states, unable to provide basic governance and protection for
their own populations, have brought about bloody domestic conflicts, and
thus undermine security in different parts of the world; on the other hand,
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the spread of dangerous
technologies pose a great potential threat to global stability and security.
. . . All this calls for an integrated approach by the international community
in its search for both a new security system and a new agenda for future
arms control and disarmament."
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.