Vol 4, No 1 - Symposia on Defense innovation | Conflict theory and micro-level analysis

January 2009

This issue contains two symposia, one on defense innovation and one on the economic of conflict, with a focus on theory and micro-level evidence. In the first, Renaud Bellais looks at defense innovation and venture capital, Sylvain Daffix and Yves Jacquin consider European defense R&D in a national innovation systems framework and Peter Hall and Andrew James consider defense innovation and industry structure in the U.K. In the second symposium, guest edited with an introduction by Philip Verwimp, Mansoob Murshed considers social contracts, greed, and grievance, Zulfan Tadjoeddin and Anis Chowdhury consider violence in Indonesia, Ana Maria Ibanez, looks at forced displacement in Colombia, and Steven Spittaels and Filip Hilgert use conflict mapping to analyze the situation in the Congo. In addition, in four stand-alone articles, Christopher Warburton considers war and exchange rate valuation, Steve Chan reviews the democratic peace thesis, Steve Townsend writes on petropolitics, and Ronan Bar-El, Kobi Kagan, and Asher Tishler examine issues of long and short term military planning.

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