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...

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...

Over the years, 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 title presents research by scholars with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the...

Presents the research on economic factors affecting peace and war. This title includes 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...

This volume contains some selected papers from the "International Conference on Peace Economics, Peace Science and Development", held at the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Conflict Prevention and Management in Bangalore, India on July 11 to 13, 2024. The chapters cover the topics of social conflict,...

Introduction : the controversial economic question of peace and war / Jacques Fontanel, Manas Chatterji -- Defense-industrial establishment of Russia / Alexander Karlik, Igor Maximtsev, Jean-Paul H(c)Øebert, Paul-Marie Clouet -- The determinants of military expenditures / Jacques Fontanel, Ivan...

The main thesis of the chapter is to introduce a new idea to the field of peace negotiations, which will require the development of a new model of negotiations to enforce peace. The existing models of peace negotiations highlight the existence of a positive peace dividend to parties involved in...

The fundamental idea that we seek to establish in this chapter is that the establishment of regional or local, peace calls forth global peace. In other words, our argument is that local and regional conflicts are partly driven by global factors, especially what is commonly known as international...