Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Overview of the book -- Part I: Markets and Force: Foundational Aspects of the Relationship between Economics and Violence within and Between States -- Chapter 2. A method to compute a peace gross world product by country and by economic sector -- Introduction -- The process for calculating a peace gross world product -- The bottom-line number -- Populating the Spreadsheet -- Adding state-specific data on the cost of violence to fine-tune the spreadsheet -- Calculating the cost savings of peace for economic sectors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Privatising military prisons: The case of the United States -- Introduction -- The problem: Insufficient supply of custodial personnel to rehabilitate prisoners -- Where the private sector could be involved -- The classic HSV model -- Innovation: Adaptation of the HSV model -- Analysis: Can the Governance regime achieve intended quality outcomes? -- Results compared with classical HSV -- Implications: The role of private sector contractors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Arms export controls and the proliferation of military technology -- Introduction -- Framing the choices countries face when obtaining weapons -- Making the choice about how or whether to obtain weapons -- Implications for suppliers -- Implications for innovation -- Electronic warfare self-protection: US export control and Australian indigenous innovation -- Performance, innovation and control in electronic warfare -- The United States controls radar warning technology -- Implications of denying Australian access to the technology -- Australia's response: the ALR-2002 radar warning receiver.

Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Internal Conflict: Economic Aspects of Outbreak, Endurance, and Recovery from Large-Scale Intra-State Violence -- Chapter 5. Probing the roles of governance and greed in civil strife in West Africa -- Introduction -- Liberia: first civil war 1989-1996 and second civil war 1999-2003 -- Sierra Leone: civil war 1991-2002 -- Ivory Coast: civil war 2002-present -- Ghana: coups but no civil war -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6. Terrorism and violent internal conflict in post-soeharto Indonesia: Beyond the Jihadi prism of analysis -- Introduction -- The relationship between violent internal conflict and terrorism: a synthesised model -- Case studies -- Terrorism in Aceh4 -- Causal factors of terrorism in aceh: Societal factors -- Causal factors of terrorism in Aceh: Organisational factors -- GAM ends its terrorist campaign -- Terrorism in Papua6 -- Causal factors of terrorism in Papua: Societal factors -- Causes of terrorism in Papua: Organisational factors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. Great expectations: Prospect theory and oil price volatility in Iran -- Introduction -- Rentier state: Valuable to a point -- Prospect theory: Expectations are everything -- 2009 Elections -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8. Does fiscal policy differ between successful and unsuccessful post-conflict transitions? Lessons from African Civil Wars -- Introduction -- Some preliminary empirical regularities -- Looking beyond averages: evidence from probit analysis -- Dynamic comparisons -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix. Variables definition -- Chapter 9. The Collier challenge: how can reliable transitional financing systems be created in 'barely functional' states? -- Introduction -- Fundamentals of rebuilding fragile states.

Supporting governance in fragile states: the independent service authority model -- Compacts to produce shared governance between national and international stakeholders -- How security might be delivered in fragile states -- Buttressing -- Comparing the model with the RAMSI -- How RAMSI won agreement -- Has RAMSI overstayed its welcome? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Trade, Law, Institutions and International Conflict: New Perspectives on Enduring Debates -- Chapter 10. Peace through trade? Econophoria in Northeast Asia -- Introduction -- Tracing the origins of liberal thought on trade and peace -- Unpacking the links between development, democracy and peace -- How commerce spreads peace: The case of Northeast Asia -- Conclusion: Rationalisation and socialisation -- Note -- References -- Chapter 11. Regional integration and militarised interstate disputes: An empirical analysis -- Introduction -- How regional integration produces peace -- How RIAs form the Kantian peace tripod -- Trade, RIAs and conflict1: The first leg of the tripod -- Democratic peace and RIAs: The second leg of the tripod -- International organisation, conflict and RIAs: the third leg -- Combined effect of the tripod legs in producing peace -- Research design -- Analysis and findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix. Full names of regional integrations used in this study -- Chapter 12. Economic integration, economic signalling and the problem of economic crises -- Introduction -- What are the expectations of economic costly signalling theory? -- What is the connection between economic integration, economic crises and conflict? -- Can states signal effectively during economic crises? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Chapter 13. Terrorism, targeted economic sanctions and inadequate due process: the case of the Security Council's 1267 sanctions regime -- Introduction -- The 1267 sanctions regime targeting terrorism -- Options and initiatives to ensure due process for sanction targets -- The lack of political will for procedural reform -- Conclusion -- Post scriptum -- References -- Chapter 14. Compensation for civilian casualties in armed conflicts and theory of liability -- Introduction -- Protecting civilians in international humanitarian law -- Civilian compensation in international humanitarian law -- The US foreign claims system and its limits -- Cases of combat exclusion under the foreign claims system -- Justifying combat exclusion -- Campaign for unrestricted compensation -- Theory of liability and civilian victims in armed conflict -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Part IV: Conclusions -- Chapter 15. Economic factors in peace and war: A discussion -- Economics, politics, and conflict -- Internal conflict -- International conflict -- The economic turn in international conflict research: Skeptical comments and some evidence -- Notes -- References -- About the authors.