"Brassey's Defence Yearbook" is designed to offer comment and analysis on the current agenda of defence and security policies. It features five main sections - British defence policy, European security, arms control, regional security and perspectives on security. Each section contains four or five articles written by authorities in academic and political fields, which set out the major topics which analysts have to understand in the modern post-Cold War world. The contributors include: Lawrence Freedman, Mark Laity, Claire Spencer, Michael Clarke, Robert Hunter, Jo Lepgold, Mariano Aguirre, Michael Bratby, Philip Robbins, Edwina Campbell, H. Schaller, Malcolm Dando, Robert Jarman, Joel Peters, Jonathan Aves, Reinhard Drifte, Ethel Solinger, Susan Willett, Gregg Mills, Caroline Thomas, Robert Fox and David Chuter.