War, Peace and Security -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The controversial economic question of peace and war -- The main economic thoughts about peace and wars -- The new economic analyses or policies of war inside the economists for peace and security association -- Summary of the content of the book -- Reference -- Chapter 2. Peace, war and international security: economic theories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The economics of security -- 3. The new economics of conflict8 -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 3. International security, defence economics and the powers of nations -- Introduction -- Security -- National security -- International security -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Global security and human security -- The current threats hanging on the world peace -- Some proposals to secure the world system -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. The economic reorganization of the military sector at the beginning of the twenty-first century -- Crisis and renewal of the military power in the global economy -- The Revival of the Military Power in Relation to the New Threats -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6. The evolution and future of European defence firms -- Introduction -- European firms under transformation -- The inescapable economics of defence systems -- Defence industrial policy: the way forwardquest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. Defense-industrial establishment of Russia -- The development of DIEs as the reaction for the external threats -- ''Commercial pragmatism''33 in Russian arms exports policy. Dependency toward arms export -- Russian aeronautic industry turns to the west -- Notes -- Chapter 8. The determinants of military expenditures -- Introduction.

The explanation by arms race -- New threats -- The membership to an alliance -- The existence of a national armament industry -- Importance of the military R&D -- The state budget growth -- References -- Chapter 9. Analyzing dependencies in geo-economics and geo-politics -- Introduction -- The gravity model of international commerce -- Estimation details -- Results -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix A. Notation -- Appendix B. Software and data documentation -- Chapter 10. The economics of terrorism -- Introduction and motivation -- Terrorists and antiterrorists -- Means and ends -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 11. Economics of UN peacekeeping operations -- Introduction -- Characteristics of UN peacekeeping operations -- Contributions to UN peacekeeping: The UN peacekeeping assessment system -- UN peacekeeping expenditures -- Debt in UN peacekeeping and consequences -- Deployments of national armies for UN peacekeeping operations: a system with many deficiencies -- Economic options for UN peacekeeping production -- References -- Chapter 12. The gender approach in institutional responses to conflict -- Introduction -- Components of a gender approach -- Gender approach: a historical review -- The contribution of the gender approach -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13. Political economy of the humanitarian actions -- Introduction -- The political economy of humanitarian missions -- The political economy of humanitarian interventions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14. Economic intelligence and national security -- Introduction -- Economic intelligence systems: the US intelligence community -- Economic intelligence and national security: first model -- Economic intelligence as source of economic power: second model -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 15. International security and sustainable development -- Introduction: security, development, sustainability -- Security-development -- Security-sustainability -- Development-sustainability -- All together now: security, development, sustainability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 16. Securing the environment and securing states -- Introduction -- The model -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix. Technical Appendix -- Chapter 17. Does the European defence burden-sharing matterquest -- Introduction -- Conclusions and future research agenda -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 18. Race versus culture in politics and war: implications for Africa -- Comparative imperialism: European and American -- Comparative apartheid: cultural and racial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index.