Militärische Interventionen werden zunehmend durch Sanktionen ersetzt, um außenpolitische Ziele der globalen Sicherheit zu verfolgen. Beide Mittel verursachen ökonomische Kosten. Anhand des Gravitationsmodells des internationalen Handels und eines allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodells...

The West's diminished belief in its own transformative capabilities has led to a preference for stabilisation over statebuilding interventions. This working paper explores how this has led to an increased Western focus on applying distance between the intervening state and the subject of...

The paper introduces a welfarist approach to the national safety of a nation with membership in a defense alliance as an option. The members are risk averse but heterogeneous in their safety classification. There are two public goods as insurance devices, the domestic military budget and the...