The 32nd edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2000 ino Security and conflictso Military spending and armamentso Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmamentIt contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events.Studies in this volume:o major armed conflictso armed conflict prevention, management and resolutiono analyses of the breakdown of the peace processes in Sierra Leone and in the Middle Easto regional study of Europe and the enlargement of European security institutionso world military expenditure and arms productiono in-depth study of Russian military expenditure and arms productiono transfers of major conventional weaponso the international trade in small arms and light weapons and their use in conflictso nuclear arms control and missile defenceo chemical and biological weapon developments and arms controlo analysis of the 2000 NPT Review Conferenceo illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materialso conventional arms control and confidence- and security-building measureso the European Union's approaches to arms control and disarmamento multilateral weapon and technology export controls