Excessive military spendingreduces the available financial reserves for health,education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases poverty, unemployment, and destitution.It also strengthens dictatorial tendencies in politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to...

Introduction / Majid Tehranian -- Religious challenges to global security / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Nuclear dilemmas in the 21st century / Yuri E. Fedorov -- The role of Russia in global security / Michael D. Intriligator -- Confidence building measures in Asia / Jozef Goldblat -- Western...

Charles C. Moskos (1934-2008) / Laura Miller -- The glocalization of bereavement : bereaved families, economic discourse and the hierarchy of Israeli casualties / Udi Lebel -- Cultural and political challenges in military missions : how officers view multiculturality in armed forces / Tibor...

Afghanistan talks. Experiential isomorphism in the military / Joseph L. Soeters -- Introduction / Gerhard Kümmel -- European civilmilitary relations in transition : the decline of conscription / Karl W. Haltiner, Tibor Szvircsev Tresch -- News from the home front : communities supporting...

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...

Over the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This volume presents up-to-date, cutting-edge research by respected scholars with an emphasis on...

Part 2 of the Cooperation for a peaceful and sustainable world volume, brings together some of the leading researchers on peace science. Chapters discuss issues including, but not restricted to, military expenditure and economics in China, India and Pakistan, Peace science in South East Asia,...

Foreign affairs practitioners and policy analysts claim that international arms embargoes usually fail due to the lack of political will among national governments to implement and enforce these restrictions. This volume confronts this critique directly, first by describing a more nuanced...