Economics of war and peace : economic, legal and political perspectives / edited by Ben Goldsmith, Jurgen Brauer.

Economies of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives brings together recent, cutting-edge research on economic factors affecting peace and war. This important area of continuing research was the focus of an international conference held at the University of Sydney in June 2009 and these chapters are partly drawn from among the best contributions to that meeting. The book weaves together threads from a number of themes in current research including new theoretical perspectives on the economic foundations of peace, violence and war within countries, connections between international trade and inter-state conflict, and the role of legal/institutional factors in international and internal conflict. Through a focused exploration of these related topics emerge areas of scholarly consensus as well as areas of continued debate. International in scope, it is the only book to explicitly bring together economic, legal and political scholarship to focus on the problem of conflict. It employs a range of modern social science analytical methods, including qualitative cases, econometrics, and game-theoretic models, to rigorously advance understanding of conflict within and between countries.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Benjamin E. Goldsmith and Jurgen Brauer -- A method to compute a peace gross world product by country and by economic sector / Jurgen Brauer and John Tepper Marlin -- Privatising military prisons: the case of the United States / Aditya Agrawal and Keiran Sharpe -- Arms export controls and the proliferation of military technology / Peter Hall, Robert Wylie -- Probing the roles of governance and greed in civil strife in West Africa / Helen Ware and Dele Ogunmola -- Terrorism and violent internal conflict in post-soeharto Indonesia: beyond the Jihadi prism of analysis / Leanne Piggott -- Great expectations: prospect theory and oil price volatility in Iran / Jennifer Hunt -- Does fiscal policy differ between successful and unsuccessful post-conflict transitions? Lessons from African civil wars / Fabrizio Carmignani and Adrian Gauci -- The Collier challenge: how can reliable transitional financing systems be created in 'barely functional' states? / Andrew Ladley and Jessie Williams -- Peace through trade? Econophoria in Northeast Asia / Brendan Howe -- Regional integration and militarised interstate disputes: an empirical analysis / Golam Robbani -- Economic integration, economic signalling and the problem of economic crises / Jedidiah Royal -- Terrorism, targeted economic sanctions and inadequate due process: the case of the Security Council's 1267 sanctions regime / Christopher Michaelsen -- Compensation for civilian casualties in armed conflicts and theory of liability / Minako Ichikawa Smart -- Economic factors in peace and war: a discussion / Benjamin E. Goldsmith.

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