War Economics
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Economics, conflict and war
With the end of the Cold War the international security environment changed fundamentally. The removal of the superpower conflict saw an initial wave of hope and cuts in military spending, but it quickly became clear that the world was still a dangerous place, and war and conflict remained endemic in many parts of the world. Conflicts had changed; in general they were intra rather than intersta...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Economic Journal
سال: 1915
ISSN: 0013-0133
DOI: 10.2307/2221590