Political Economy of Defense Working Group (new in AY 2006-2007)

This group brings together faculty, research associates and graduate students with widely varying experience, theoretical perspectives, and methodological preferences, but who have a shared interest in understanding how militaries are funded and how their equipment is produced and procured in the United States and abroad. It combines its members' regional and government experience with their theoretical and comparative concerns in order to inform and enrich scholarly research. Topics include (but are not limited to) tracking money flows across borders, the effect of changing market structures on defense/security, use of economic tools for defense (including sanctions), the effect of trade flows on security relationships, arms trade, procurement, the defense industrial base, dual use technology, budgeting (and off-budget defense spending), and lobbying.