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This Yearbook, which with its previous edition marked 30 years since its first publication, is a collective monograph by experts of the Center for International Security of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). This edition offers a detailed  analysis of the situation in key international security areas and proposes specific solutions to some of the world’s most burning problems. The monograph investigates the development of nuclear arsenals and national strategies of leading nuclear powers, and identifies major tasks to strengthen the arms control regimes and resume nuclear arms control negotiations. It explores possible paths to overcome tensions between Russia and the NATO countries, resolve conflicts in Eastern Ukraine, Syria, and Afghanistan, and manage the Iranian and North Korean nuclear problems. The Yearbook also devotes special attention to the risks presented by terrorism, advanced weapons systems, penetration of the arms race into cyberspace and under sea, and the increased military activity in the Arctic.

The book would be of interest for the Russian and international political and expert community as well as for general public interested in contemporary international security issues.