Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

PEACE ECONOMICS, PEACE SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (PEPS) is a peer-reviewed journal founded in the early 1990s by Walter Isard, a pioneer of Peace Science, to provide a rigorous, interdisciplinary venue for analysis of war, peace, and security policy. Launched with Volume 1 in 1993, PEPS remains grounded in that foundation while welcoming innovative methods and diverse perspectives. Under the editorship of Raul Caruso, the journal publishes research articles and short Letters that combine theory, data, and policy relevance across economics, political science, regional science, and quantitative social science. Core topics include the determinants and consequences of military expenditure; the arms industry and arms trade; sanctions and coercive diplomacy; peacekeeping and peacebuilding; contest and game theory; trade, institutions, and development under conflict; conflict management and prevention; and post-war recovery and reconstruction. Issued four times per year, PEPS advances evidence-based scholarship to inform effective public policy, with international authorship and readership.