Die deutschen Verteidigungsausgaben werden im Rahmen der NATO immer wieder als zu niedrig kritisiert, insbesondere von Seiten der US-Administration. Auch wenn die Bindungswirkung des Ziels für die Militärausgaben in Höhe von 2 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts strittig ist, hat es doch...

Die insgesamt nicht nachlassende Gefahr militärischer Konflikte und die damit einhergehenden Bedrohungen von politischer und ökonomischer Souveränität erfordern entsprechende Aufstellungen und Ausrüstungen der Streitkräfte. Verteidigung ist ein zentrales öffentliches Gut, das auch...

Die insgesamt nicht nachlassende Gefahr militärischer Konflikte und die damit einhergehenden Bedrohungen von politischer und ökonomischer Souveränität erfordern entsprechende Aufstellungen und Ausrüstungen der Streitkräfte. Verteidigung ist ein zentrales öffentliches Gut, das auch...

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

Scholars and policy-makers continue to debate transatlantic burden-sharing. While economists have shed much light on cross-country variation in burden-sharing behavior, only qualitative work in the security studies field has addressed the nature of contributions to shared priorities, and neither...

Both theorists and practitioners continue to show interest in transatlantic burden-sharing. International security and political economy scholarship offers plausible explanations for transatlantic imbalances in military expenditures. However, NATO Allies and EU Member States have pledged to one...

Recently, a growing amount of data suggests that there is an intricate relationship between sovereign debt and civil unrest. This article proposes that the powers of the UN Security Council, and in particular its experience with the imposition of sanctions, should be used in order to restructure...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, inflicted enormous losses on the insurance industry and businesses. In the wake of the disruptions occurring in the insurance market at the time, the government enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to create a “temporary” federal...

In some ways, a 2012 symposium on “Dilemmas of State Debt” may seem a bit behind the news curve. At the end of 2010, municipal bond markets were in a deep funk. Analysts predicted that countless municipalities and perhaps one or more of the United States might default on their debt...