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Corruption and the arms trade: The U.K. Ministry of Defense and the bribe culture

Gilby, Nicholas - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 3 (2008) 1, pp. 21-31

Using as-yet-unpublished material, the article considers the interaction of the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) with the “bribe culture” that surrounds international arms deals. It finds evidence of two phases. The first, which lasted until 1976, may be characterized as...

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Extractive industries in fragile states and the role of market incentives and regulation

Carbonnier, Gilles - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 5 (2010) 2, pp. 30-37

This article considers the so-called resource curse plaguing fragile states with abundant extractive resources. It critically assesses the assumption that nonstate actors such as extractive industries, civil society organizations, and investors have the ability to exert effective pressure...

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Peacemaking and Peacekeeping: Introduction

Brauer, Jurgen; Dunne, J Paul - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 2, pp. 1-3

Dietrich Fischer reviews the cost of war as against the cost of war-prevention. But for all the good reasons of why peace is … cheaper than war, war nonetheless recurs. Jurgen Brauer examines why there seems to be so little peace - if it is so cheap to …

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Foreword

Galbraith, Jamie - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 3-3

This piece provides a Foreword to the new journal by the chair of Economics for Peace and Security. …

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Introduction: A New Journal

Brauer, Jurgen; Dunne, J Paul - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 4-5

This piece introduces the new journal. This issue 'Conflict or Development?' has a regional focus on Africa. Joseph Stiglitz discusses the role of information in conflict and draws a fascinating analogy between civil strife and a labor strike. Paul Collier and Neil Cooper take different...

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Chapter 35 A Survey of Peace Economics

Anderton, Charles H.; Carter, John R. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 1211-1258). 2007

Peace economics can be defined as the use of economics to understand the causes and effects of violent conflict in the … peace economics, highlighting seminal as well as current contributions. Particularly noteworthy among the newer developments … relatively large cross-country panels. The topics surveyed include: the relation of peace economics to both defense economics and …

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Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendas

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017

conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …

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Military Expenditure, Policy Syndromes and Tourism in the World

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

improved when military expenditure is used as a tool to mitigate perceived and real security risks that potentially reduce …

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National borders, conflict and peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...

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Money can't buy love but can it buy peace? : evidence from the EU programme for peace and reconciliation

Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014

detailed PEACE II accounts. Noting potential selection and omitted variables biases, we implement two-stage random effects …

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