This paper examines the growth of military production in Russia since the onset of the war against Ukraine in February 2022. Utilizing official data from Rosstat, the study explores how military production is classified within Russian industrial output statistics. The analysis reveals...

This paper examines the growth of military production in Russia since the onset of the war against Ukraine in February 2022. Utilizing official data from Rosstat, the study explores how military production is classified within Russian industrial output statistics. The analysis reveals...

The start of the second millennium brought a growing sense that capitalism was becoming more ‘authoritarian’ and ‘illiberal’, with various indicators suggesting that ‘democracy’ is waning around the globe, that the protection of human and civil rights is in retreat and that the...

We revisit the theory of critical deterrence--the idea that military spending may reduce the risk of conflict by increasing its expected costs. To test this theory, we assemble a new cross-national dataset combining information on armed conflicts and defense spending over a 75-year period. We...

This work presents an approach to the new technologies currently used in Mexican customs and ports. Based on this approach, it is emphasized that National Security is a facilitator for safeguarding the information used and processed in these important national facilities. As a consequence, it is...

This paper examines the military-industrial complex (MIC), which is a prototype widely imitated by other business sectors. Collectively, they constitute a variety of capitalism which can be termed the poly-industrial complex (PIC). Understanding the MIC is cri-tical to understanding contemporary...

Since 2022, the Russian leadership has significantly expanded its activities in the area of military-patriotic education for children and young people. New compulsory measures and voluntary programmes have been introduced. Their apparent diversity notwithstanding, the Kremlin has strict control...