This special issue addresses a range of fundamental issues related to security economics, which is defined as the study of the causes, forms, and effects of the human drivers of insecurity, which include terrorism and organized crime as well as the related policies. Most of the papers of this...

A number of proposals for a tax on the international trade with weapons have been made during the last 25 years, most recently prior to the G-8 summit in Lyon, France, in June 2003. Originally, the major objectives were both to reduce the level of trade in arms and raise money for purposes such...

Foreign affairs practitioners and policy analysts claim that international arms embargoes usually fail due to the lack of political will among national governments to implement and enforce these restrictions. This volume confronts this critique directly, first by describing a more nuanced...