A recent Climatic Change review article reports a remarkable convergence of scientific evidence for a link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing markedly from other contemporary assessments of the empirical literature. This commentary revisits the review in...

Arms embargoes are often said to be ineffective but mandated fairly often. A sample of 74 arms embargo cases between 1990 and 2005 is analysed in order to assess effectiveness. The analysis shows that such embargoes had notable effects on arms import patterns in about 30 percent of all cases....

A debate has recently been initiated by a number of members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee to include security-related items in the definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA). This article looks at the logic of these proposals by means of a brief review of the history of...

A plusieurs reprises pendant les 25 dernières années, et dernièrement au sommet des G 8 à Lyon, on a proposé de taxer les ventes internationales d'armes. A l'origine, les objectifs étaient autant la limitation des ventes internationales d'armes que l'accès à de nouvelles sources de...

The production of weapons in less industrialized countries (LIC) grew rapidly from the 1960s to the mid-1980s when it began to stagnate. The trend is not universal, however, with drastic declines in countries in Africa and Latin America and stagnation or even growth in countries in Asia....

European Union policy to counter terrorist financing is marked by uncertainty about causes and consequences. The paper addresses the role of evaluations of the effectiveness and efficiency of counter terrorist financing policies performed by international standard setting organizations in such a...

This paper presents key aspects and policy implications of a multi-annual research project on economic analyses of European security issues (EUSECON), with an emphasis on intentional threats of organised crime, piracy and terrorism. The first part argues that rational models can provide...