The 1998 yearbook continues SIPRI's annual analyses of developments in global and regional major armed conflicts; in conflict prevention, management and resolution; in world military expenditure, arms production, arms transfers, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; and in arms control and disarmament.
Special studies in this volume include:
* major armed conflicts
* armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
* multilateral peace missions in 1997
* regional studies of the Middle East peace process, Russia and the conflicts and peaceful settlement of disputes in its environment, and new security arrangements in Europe
* world military expenditure and arms production
* Russian military expenditure
* the 100 largest arms-producing companies
* military research and development
* the trade in major conventional weapons
* multilateral military-related export controls
* nuclear, chemical and biological arms control
* new nuclear weapon-free zones in South-East Asia and Africa
* implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
* conventional arms control
* the ban on anti-personnel land-mines