"Neomercantilist War" which analyses the use of military force to protect a strategically vital economic resource (such as Gulf oil …). Neomercantilist War is a point of similarity between the GPE school of neomercantilism and the International Relations (IR) school of … realism. Design/methodology/approach The 1991 Gulf War and the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 are two major events of …

’s ability to provide such protection ultimately rests on its power to wage war. Governments therefore have tended to devote more … resources to war than to anything else. Indeed, prior to the advent of the modern welfare State, they usually spent more on war … than on all other things combined. Governments were essentially war making institutions that did a few other things on the …