Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Introduction / Stephen Balch and Benjamin Powell -- Crisis and government power -- Crisis without leviathan? / Robert Higgs -- The rule of law during times of economic crisis / Todd Zywicki -- Fiscal crisis -- Fiscal crisis as a quality of progressivist...

The earlier work on the optimal design of the national security has focused on the opportunity cost of the draft in terms of foregone human capital formation. The current paper introduces the national security into the welfare analysis missing from the earlier work. This creates a trade-off...

Introduction -- The recent history of PMCs -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Theoretical approach and terminology -- Research design -- Main analysis -- The international legitimacy of the ICoC [International Code of Conduct] -- Final conclusion -- Addendum : the business of human rights...

Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the question of whether external intervention can assist weak or fragile states in successfully making the transition to stable democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and...

We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy...

In Reaktion auf zahlreiche wirtschaftliche Missbrauchsfälle und Gewalteskalationen, in die Private Sicherheitsunternehmen (PSU) während des Irak- und Afghanistaneinsatzes verwickelt waren, sind in den Vereinigten Staaten eine Reihe von neuen Regulierungen in Kraft getreten. Im Mittelpunkt...

Most nations spend a considerable part of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense. However, no previous study has addressed the productivity and efficiency of the core area of the armed forces, operational units, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Introducing a model for the production...