@AndrewHistorian The Past Speaks Tower of London Poppies On Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, it is customary to think of the fallen, and of the ways by which the likelihood of war can be reduced. As armistice day reading this year, I would recommend an excellent new collection of essays called The Handbook on the Political Economy of War edited by Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers. The papers in this collection, which are by scholars working a variety of disciplines and intellectual traditions, are, for the most part, superb. Here is the book’s Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers PART I: WHY WARS ARE WAGED 2. Theories and Causes of War Jack S. Levy 3. The Reasons for Wars: An Updated Survey Matthew O. Jackson and Massimo Morelli 4. Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences Peter T. Leeson and Claudia R. Williamson 5. Psychological Aspects of War Iain Hardie, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney PART II: WAYS OF WAGING WAR 6. What is Guerrilla Warfare? Anthony James Joes 7. The Economics of Torture Pavel Yakovlev 8. Terrorism in Rational Choice Perspective William F. Shughart II 9. The Political Economy of Conscription Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener PART III: CIVIL WAR AND REVOLUTION 10. Economic Perspectives on Civil Wars Nathan Fiala and Stergios Skaperdas 11. Political Economy of Third World Revolutions Misagh Parsa PART IV: THE ARMS TRADE 12. The Arms Trade David Kinsella 13. Arms Trade Offsets: What Do We Know? Jurgen Brauer and John Paul Dunne PART V: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS 14. The Capitalist Peace Erich Weede 15. On the Democratic Peace Sebastian Rosato 16. International Conflict and Leadership Tenure Randall J. Blimes 17. A Public Choice Perspective on Defense and Alliance Policy Bernhard Klingen 18. International Regimes and War James Ashley Morrison and Avery F. White PART VI: POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION AND NATION BUILDING 19. Fixing Failed States: A Dissenting View Justin Logan and Christopher Preble 20. Choice and Consequence in Strategies of Transitional Justice Geoff Dancy 21. Dynamics of Military Occupation Michael Hechter and Oriol Vidal-Aparicio 22. Three’s Company? Towards an Understanding of Third-Party Intervention Effectiveness David Carment and Martin Fischer 23. Credible Commitment in Post-Conflict Recovery Thomas Edward Flores and Irfan Nooruddin 24. Conflict, Credibility and Asset Prices Gregory M. Dempster and Justin P. Isaacs PART VII: ALTERNATIVES TO WAR 25. Disaggregated Trade Flows and International Conflict Han Dorussen and Hugh Ward 26. Sanctions as Alternatives to War David Cortright and George A. Lopez 27. International Negotiation and Conflict Prevention I. William Zartman 28. The Economics of Peacekeeping Lloyd J. Dumas Index
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:42:59 +0000
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