Routledge Studies in Defence and Peace Economics
The Economics of International Security: Great Power Politics from Afghanistan to Ukraine
1st Edition
By Marek Loužek
April 22, 2024
International relations since the end of the Cold War have been relatively uneasy, yet we should not discount the fact that the intensity of conflicts has decreased compared to the situation in both the first and second halves of the 20th century. This book explores international security relations...
Military Spending and Global Security: Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jordi Calvo Rufanges
May 30, 2022
Global military expenditure reached an estimated $1,822 billion in 2018 and this book questions what that spending responds to and indeed what that entails in terms of global security. The book draws from prior knowledge and research on military expenditure but introduces an all-encompassing, ...
Military Cost–Benefit Analysis: Theory and practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Francois Melese, Anke Richter, Binyam Solomon
January 22, 2018
This is the first comprehensive book on Military Cost-Benefit Analysis and provides novel approaches to structuring cost-benefit and affordability analysis amidst an uncertain defense environment and cloudy fiscal prospects. Lifting the veil on military Cost-Benefit Analysis, this volume offers ...
The Economics of Regional Security: NATO, the Mediterranean and Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Jurgen Brauer, Keith Hartley
October 29, 2015
This important book explores the threats and challenges to regional security, for Nato, in the Mediterranean, and in the sub-Saharan countries, namely southern Africa. Written and edited by leading researchers, the volume's significance lies in its demonstration of how concepts from economics and ...
European Armaments Collaboration
1st Edition
By Ron Matthews
August 12, 2014
First published in 1992. The changing strategic environment of the 1990s has been characterised by events such as the Middle-East conflagration and super-power disarmament which represent the two opposing ends of the present security spectrum. The framing of appropriate defence policies now depends...
Exploding the Myth?: The Peace Dividend, Regions and Market Adjustment
1st Edition
By Derek Braddon
August 12, 2014
From a cold war peak of some $1000 billion per annum, world military expenditure has declined by about 40% since 1990, reaching its lowest level for thirty years. With such significant decline in global public expenditure committments to the defence sector, a substantial and lasting peace dividend ...
The Economics of Offsets: Defence Procurement and Coutertrade
1st Edition
By Stephen Martin
August 12, 2014
Despite their growth, outlined and analysed in this book, the claims and counter-claims that surround offsets have not been subjected to critical scrutiny by economists. This book fills that gap. It brings together a team of internationally renowned specialists to document and evaluate the economic...
Defence Procurement and Industry Policy: A small country perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall, Robert Wylie
June 19, 2014
Arms purchases are among the most expensive, technologically challenging and politically controversial decisions made by modern-day governments. Superpower spending on weapons systems is widely analysed and discussed. But defence procurement in smaller industrial countries involves different issues...
The Arms Trade, Security and Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Levine, Ron Smith
June 19, 2014
The Arms Industry is an area that is of huge concern to many people around the world. The economics of this hugely important industry are a vital strand that needs to be understood. This volume brings together contributors from all over the globe, such as Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, and focuses...
The Economics of UN Peacekeeping
1st Edition
By Nadège Sheehan
May 30, 2014
Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian ideas. UN peacekeeping plays an important role in international security and includes various activities that go beyond the original roles assigned to UN ...
The Economics of Defence Policy: A New Perspective
1st Edition
By Keith Hartley
November 08, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been faced with new regional conflicts, terrorism and threats from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and from rogue states. The world remains uncertain, unstable and insecure with continued threats to global peace and security. The world ...
Economic Theories of Peace and War
1st Edition
By Fanny Coulomb
September 14, 2011
War often comes down to one thing: money. The role of economics in the study of both peace and war is arguably then the most important single factor when it comes to the study of defence. This excellent new book from Fanny Coulomb will be of interest not only to those involved in the burgeoning ...