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1: Introduction: Expanding Borders of Defense Economics in Defense of the World
Adem Yavuz Elveren
Section 1: A Conceptual, Historical and Bibliometric Review
2: Defense Output: What is Produced by Military Expenditure?
Ron Smith
3: Understanding Peace Economics
Raul Caruso
4: Reflections on Economists’ Contributions to the Analysis of War
Fanny Coulomb
5: Trends of Global Military Expenditures
Nan Tian
6: The Data Infrastructure behind Defense Economics
Sam Perlo-Freeman
7: The Economics of Defense, Peace, War, and Conflict: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Field’s Leading Journals
Konstantina Founta, Christos Kollias, & Stella Manika
Section 2: Causes and Consequences of Military Spending
8: The Security Trilemma
Adem Yavuz Elveren and David M. Fields
9: The Demand for Military Spending
Eftychia Nikolaidou
10: New Directions in the Arms Trade: Multipolarity and the Rise of the South
Omar Dahi, Firat Demir, & Shana Marshall
11: The U.S. Military Contractors: Their Roles and Impact
Heidi Peltier
12: Militarism and Masculinities
Morten Kyed
13: The Political Economy of Militarization of Police and Private Securities
Lilian Bobea
14: The Economic Costs of Conflict
Andrea Crippa, Giorgio d’Agostino, J. Paul Dunne, & Luca Pieroni
15: A Critical Review of Econometric Models on Military Spending and Growth
Eleonora Gentilucci
16: Military Expenditures and Economic Growth
J. Paul Dunne & Nan Tian
17: The Impact of Military Spending on Growth: More Evidence
Pelin Akçagün-Narin
18: Military Expenditure, Fiscal Trade-offs, and Social Investment: Revisiting the Crowding-Out Hypothesis in the Global South
Hamid Ali & Almalaz Osman
19: The Military-Social Spending Tradeoff Index
Liliana Kaeppel, Eşref Uğur Çelik, & Adem Yavuz Elveren
20: Emissions Impossible: Militarism, Technology, and Climate Change
Brett Clark & Daniel Auerbach
21: Global Militarization and Sustainable Development: Long-Run Trends and Trade-Offs
Ceyhun Elgin & Gokçer Ozgur
Section 3: War, Conflict and Peace Theories
22: New Mercantilism in the 21st Century
Jacques Fontanel
23: The Political Economy of Just War Theory
Christopher Coyne & Abigail R. Hall
24: Peace Building Strategy: Lessons from some Misconceived Foreign Interventions
Jean-Paul Azam
25: Economic Foundations of Cybersecurity Games
Daniel G. Arce
26: Terrorism and Contemporary Political Economy: Democracy, Socio-Economic Conditions, and Migration
Kevin Siqueira & Petros G. Sekeris
27: Natural Resource Rents and Causes of Ethnic Grievances: Blockchain Technology for Resources Allocation
Hamid Ali
28: The War in Ukraine and the Return to Industrial Warfare in Europe
Lucie Béraud-Sudreau
29: Militarization in the Middle East: Security Practices, Political Economy, and the Limits of Arms-Centric Order
Emma Soubrier
30: Military Welfare Versus People’s Welfare and the Role of Collective/Public Sentiments: An Introduction to Social Quantum Field Theory
Christian Aspalter
Section 4: The Future of Defending The World
31: The True Costs of Militarization: Alternative Economic Insights
Adem Yavuz Elveren
32: Venture Capital, the Tech Industry, and the Specter of Militarized AI
Roberto J. González
33: Space Defense Policy
Aneli Bongers & Jose L Torres
34: Reflections on the “Peace as a Global Public Good” discourse in Peace Economics Research
Gülay Günlük-Şenesen
35: After the Fighting Stops: Education for Peace…..and War?
Eric Budd
36: Future of Global Military Spending and Defense Economics: Interviews with Linda Bilmes, Cynthia Enloe, James K. Galbraith, Christos Kollias, and Massimo Pivetti
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Biography
Adem Yavuz Elveren is a Professor of Economics at Fitchburg State University, Massachusetts, US and Izmir University of Economics, Türkiye.
"This Handbook comprising some of the world’s leading scholars is an original and timely contribution to knowledge in this important but under-researched field. It addresses such key questions as what does military spending produce and what are the costs of war? It is highly recommended for all scholars in the field."
Keith Hartley, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of York
