To develop effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, it is necessary to have a good understanding of how these weapons are distributed and how illicit stockpiles are formed. This article captures structural characteristics of small-arms...

The Swiss approach to defence procurement has a number of distinct features. With modest levels of defence-related R&D, military acquisitions tend to be limited to proven and durable systems offering the user reliable performance over time as well as plenty of scope for future upgrades and...

Defence procurement deals with products that are highly differentiated and its regulation is extremely complex. The 'defence organisation' and 'industry' are the two principal parties involved in procurement transactions. Domestic sourcing of defence materiel has long been encouraged in most...

Australia has been something of a laboratory for policy experiment aimed at developing and maintaining defence-related industry capability at an acceptable social cost. The issues that successive governments have aimed to address under the heading of 'defence self-reliance' include: public vs....

To generate effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, governments must understand how the weapons are distributed and illegal stockpiles formed. This paper describes the structural characteristics of small arms supply chains and models mechanisms...

To develop effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, it is necessary to have a good understanding of how these weapons are distributed and how illicit stockpiles are formed. This article captures structural characteristics of small-arms...

Technological innovation for defence-related purposes has often facilitated major advances of socio-economic significance well beyond the defence sector. In the post-Cold War era, government spending on military research and development (R&D) is falling around the world but for Australia, the...

The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention.

The present paper is concerned with the attractiveness of countries to direct foreign investments, that is, the host country characteristics that attract direct foreign investment (FDI). It focuses on two types of national characteristics —those that attract inflows of all foreign...