The Political Economy of National Security
An Annotated Bibliography
The Political Economy of National Security
An Annotated Bibliography
Helen V. Milner and David A. Baldwin
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
Mlada Bukovansky
Kathleen R. McNamara
Susan M. Peterson
Kamal S. Shehadi
First published 1990 by Westview Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Milner, Helen V., 1958
The political economy of national security: an annotated
bibliography / by Helen V. Milner and David A. Baldwin.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8133-7908-3
1. National securityEconomic aspectsBibliography.
I. Baldwin, David A. (David Allen), 1936- . II. Title.
Z6724.N37M54 1990
[HC79.D4]
016.3384'76234dc20 89-29077
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29494-6 (hbk)
Contents
- PART ONE
Theory, Method, and Concepts of National Security Analysis - PART TWO
National Security and the Economy - PART THREE
National Security Policy and Policymaking - PART FOUR
Economic Statecraft - PART FIVE
1945 and Earlier Studies
- PART ONE
Theory, Method, and Concepts of National Security Analysis - PART TWO
National Security and the Economy - PART THREE
National Security Policy and Policymaking - PART FOUR
Economic Statecraft - PART FIVE
1945 and Earlier Studies
Guide
The preparation of this annotated bibliography has been supported by a grant to Columbia University from the Pew Charitable Trusts Program for Integrating Economics and National Security. Jenny Dharamsey's word processing skills and helpful suggestions enhanced both the content and the appearance of this volume. The staff of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, under the able direction of Jean Leong, provided administrative and editorial assistance.
David A. Baldwin is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.
Mlada Bukovansky is a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University. She is working on a dissertation on the socialization of revolutionary states in the international system.
Kathleen R. McNamara is a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University. Her dissertation examines the politics of economic cooperation.
Helen V. Milner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a member of the Institute on Western Europe.
Susan M. Peterson is a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University and a John M. Olin Dissertation Fellow in National Security at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Her dissertation concerns crisis bargaining.
Kamal S. Shehadi is a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University and a John M. Olin Dissertation Fellow in National Security at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. He is writing a dissertation on economic mobilization for war.
The political economy of national security is both an ancient and nascent field of inquiry. It is ancient in the sense that concern for the security implications of economic policies is long-standing. Both Plato and Aristotle worried about the potentially corrupting effects of foreign trade on the body politic. The mercantilists viewed power and wealth in the context of national security concerns, and even Adam Smith, the great critic of mercantilism, defended the Navigation Acts on the grounds that defense is "of much more importance than opulence." Many of the nineteenth-century advocates of free trade believed that peace and security would be consequences of free trade. In the twentieth century two world wars triggered some work by economists on economic warfare and war financing, and in the 1960's there was a spurt of interest la the application of economic tools of analysis to defense spending.
Despite such long-standing concerns, national security studies have not acquired a secure niche in the discipline of economics. Few economics departments offer courses on national security, and few economics textbooks deal with the subject. It is instructive to compare the early editions of Paul Samuelson's famous text, which included an entire chapter on the "Economics of War and Defense," with later editions, in which the subject is virtually ignored. It is in this sense that the political economy of national security can be described as nascent.
The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to stimulate interest in this field by providing a guide to researchers at all levels. Although the scope includes many dimensions and approaches, it does not purport to be a comprehensive survey of every nook and cranny of this emerging field of inquiry. It should help the researcher get started by identifying important works on various topics, but it is not intended to cover every relevant piece of work. Government documents and unpublished materials, such as Ph.D. dissertations, have been largely ignored. The primary focus is on scholarly books and articles dealing with the interplay of wealth and power in the context of national security policy.
The organization of the bibliography is intended to convey the many dimensions of the subject. , are often overlooked by researchers laboring under the mistaken impression that "newer is better." The inclusion of older works is intended not only to present the intellectual history of the field but also to call attention to valuable insights by earlier generations of scholars that are of continuing relevance today.
Some items are preceded by an asterisk (*), These are works the authors judge to be especially important. For purposes of any particular piece of research, of course, many entries without asterisks may be very important. The asterisks are intended for those new to the field who want guidance as to where to begin.
Many entries, of course, deal with several topics and could be placed in more than one category. The categorization reflects the primary focus of each entry. The index should be helpful in locating works that address topics outside the category in which they are classified.
Helen V. Milner
David A. Baldwin
Part One :
Theory, Method, and Concepts of National Security Analysis
Abshire, David M., and Richard Allen, eds., National Security: Political, Military and Economic Strategies in the Decade Ahead (New York: Praeger, 1963).
The result of a conference on the relationship between strategy and economics. The book addresses a number of issues: economic constraints on strategy, economic strategies for national security, economics of alliance (Oskar Morgenstern) and the economic foundations for meeting strategic requirements.