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 anddisarmament. 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 | SIPRI Yearbook 1998 by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters