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 …

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

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 …

with their loss of motives for defending the country or the security of its citizens. Citizen security saw a drastic drop … mechanisms of responsibility and the interest taken by the authorities in providing security. The Oslo Accords were in no way …

The greatest contribution that economics can make to banishing war lies in creating conditions that help keep the peace … to keep the peace and work out a set of policies and institutions capable of creating those conditions. The article …

been happy with the Afghan Security Forces and ad hoc militias and only replaced them because of political reasons or … because they felt that they were no longer needed. By contrast, the work of private security companies seems to have satisfied … money to the governments involved in the medium and long-term. Moreover, private security contractors are not subject to the …

transnationalism, especially of transnational security concerns, into any consideration of peace in the region. Transnational threat … crises. The article first examines the peace studies literature and argues that neither the micro, macro, or more recent meso … actors sustain the long peace in Latin America …