Volume 19, No.2 (October 2024) of The Economics of Peace and Security (EPSJ) is now published
2024-10-21
About the Journal
Welcome to The Economics of Peace and Security Journal (EPSJ), a publication of EPS Publishing for Economists for Peace and Security. Issues are published in April and October. Click the About item in the menu bar to learn more about EPSJ, including our scholarly scope and aims, and our history.
Please Subscribe to read recent issues of EPSJ. Subscriptions fees are US$25 for individuals and US$150 for institutions. While all articles and issues become open-access reading 24 months after initial publication, any other than purely private storage, reproduction, or reprinting in any form and format requires our explicit, written permission, for which please contact ManagingEditor@epsjournal.org.uk.
EPSJ is white-listed, abstracted, indexed and/or otherwise captured in outlets such as EconLit/Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), EBSCO Information Services, ProQuest/Dialog, Cabells Directories, ESCI (Clarivate), and in Elsevier's Scopus. RePEc alone shows about 1,000 article downloads annually, pleasing for a journal that publishes only about 10-15 articles per year. Since we joined Crossref in 2014, a publisher alliance, we have seen about 100 click-through "resolutions" per article DOI. All of our articles are DOI-referenced. Likewise, all submissions are similarity-checked and all published articles are peer-reviewed. For reference, our Online ISSN is 1749-852X and our DOI identification is doi:10.15355.
JP Dunne, Editor & M Brown, Managing Editor
JP Dunne is Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, and Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
M Brown, formerly with the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, now runs a private consultancy in the United Kingdom.
Announcements
Current Issue
Vol. 19 No. 2 (2024):
This issue marks the start of a couple of journal initiatives.
The article by Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara is the first of a series that result from a collaboration between CORN West Africa and UNU-WIDER that supports researchers from West Africa working on conflict and development to bring their local knowledge and expertise to global discourses on peace and statebuilding. The initiative aims to amplify voices from the Global South to help shape sustainable solutions for critical development challenges. By strengthening local research capabilities, the partnership contributes to research outcomes that are relevant to local needs and contexts and contribute meaningfully to global policy debates. Tarila Marclint Ebiede is director of CORN West Africa and Patricia Justino and Laura Saavvedra-Lux are the UNU-WIDER collaborators. The papers are produced within the CORN network and then go through a process of review at WIDER and become working papers, before being considered by the journal through its normal procedures.
The article by Ron Smith is an important review of defense budgets in the U.K. With the recent growth in international tension growing military spending has become commonplace. But this raises important issues of what the expenditure is, how it is measured and what choices need to be made and how comparisons are made. Just increasing defense spending does not necessarily lead to an increase in capability or security. It is more complicated than that. This review of the U.K. has led us to solicit more case studies covering the same issues for other countries which will be published in future issues.
The issue also includes Lindgren et al.’s substantive comparative review of how the armed forces in NATO and NATO-partner countries pay and compensate military personnel and the issues involved. It goes on to highlight the lessons learned from this comparison (for instance, monetary incentives are not as homogenous as might be expected) and how this review may be expanded.
Published:
2024-10-19
