Principles of Conflict Economics
The Political Economy of War, Terrorism, Genocide, and Peace

Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics.

Charles H. Anderton (Author), John R. Carter (Author)

9781316635391, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 April 2019

524 pages, 241 b/w illus.
22.7 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.86 kg

'This book remains the most accessible and comprehensive treatment of the analysis of conflict. The authors have added new insights from behavioral, cyber, identity, and network economics, thereby capturing some of the most important recent developments in the field. It is an outstanding contribution to conflict economics.' Daniel Arce, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Dallas

Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict and peace in two important ways. First, it applies economic concepts and models to help one understand diverse conflict activities such as war, terrorism, genocide, and peace. Second, it treats coercive appropriation as a fundamental economic activity, joining production and exchange as a means of wealth acquisition. In the second edition of their book Principles of Conflict Economics, Anderton and Carter provide comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics. Along with new scholarship on well-established areas such as war, terrorism and alliances and under-researched areas including genocides, individual and family aspects of war, and conflict prevention, they apply new economic tools to the study of war and peace such as behavioral economics and economics of identity and offer deeper research and policy insights into how to reconstitute societies after large-scale violence.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Nature, scope, and interdependencies of conflict and economics
Part II. Key Concepts and Models for the Economic Analysis of Conflict and Peace: 2. Production possibilities and economic growth
3. Demand and supply
4. Rational choice theory
5. Game theory
6. Behavioral economics and the economics of identity
7. Network economics
8. Conflict success functions and the theory of appropriation possibilities
Part III. Economic Aspects of War, Terrorism, and Genocide: 9. Geography and technology of conflict
10. Bargaining theory of war and peace
11. Conflict between states
12. Civil wars
13. Terrorism
14. Genocides and other mass atrocities
Part IV. Security and Peace: 15. Arms rivalry, proliferation, and arms control
16. Security alliances
17. Peace.

Subject Areas: Microeconomics [KCC], Terrorism, armed struggle [JPWL], Human rights [JPVH], International relations [JPS]