July 2001Not all international public goods (IPGs) pose the same financial challenges. For some, encouraging adequate funding requires much ingenuity. For still other IPGs, incentives are consistent with the operation of markets or clubs; no official intervention is required as the IPGs are...

The second volume of the Handbook of Defense Economics addresses defense needs, practices, threats, and policies in the modern era of globalization. This new era concerns the enhanced cross-border flows of all kinds (e.g., capital and labor flows, revolutionary rhetoric, guerrillas, and...