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 …

integration before World War I was more limited. Given that integration today is even more pervasive than a hundred years ago, it … for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from …