is how major datasets like the Correlates of War Project have fostered a rapid growth of econometric studies based on … their connections with Schelling's inherent propensity toward war or peace, various Lanchester war models, and the offense …

on the contributions expected of defense economics in a globalized world where old patterns of thinking risk obsolescence …In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … revolutionary effects of globalization and its new challenges to world security and stability. The challenges to security now come …