EAEPE 2005 CONFERENCE
Bremen/Germany, November 10-12, 2005
RESEARCH AREA H- POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PEACE, WAR AND ARMS INDUSTRIES

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Political economy of peace, war and arms industries Research Area has been set up in March 2005. It invites paper proposals that contribute to issues related to the themes of the RA H.
It has become evident that defence-related issues, long given minor attention in economics, have surfaced as central in the current stage of globalisation. Increase in military expenditures at the world level, multiplication and the continuation of wars in many parts of the world, new generation of sophisticated technological weapons, and further interest for defence stocks by institutional investors in some developed countries, indicate that a new type of relation between defence and economy set in at the turn of the century.
Papers that address one of the following issues are welcome:

1) Political Economy of peace and war.
- The relations between war, defence and security, and globalisation in the post Cold war era. How different are these relations from those that took place in the late nineteenth century globalisation?
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