- Title Pages
- Prologue
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Defining Global Public Goods
- Intergenerational Public Goods
- The Political Economy of International Cooperation
- Case Studies
- Equity and Justice
- Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework
- Distributive Justice as an International Public Good
- Global Justice
- Market Efficiency
- Deep Integration and Trade Agreements
- International Financial Instability
- Environment and Cultural Heritage
- Montreal versus Kyoto
- New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods
- Cultural Heritage as Public Good
- Health
- Global Epidemiological Surveillance
- Health as a Global Public Good
- Knowledge and Information
- Knowledge as a Global Public Good
- Global Communications for a More Equitable World
- The Public Face of Cyberspace
- Peace and Security
- Preventing Deadly Conflict
- Peace as a Global Public Good
- International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid
- Regional Public Goods in International Assistance
- Global Public Goods
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- About the Contributors
- Index
Peace and Security
Peace and Security
- Chapter:
- (p.364) Peace and Security
- Source:
- Global Public Goods
- Author(s):
David A. Hamburg
Jane E. Holl
Ruben P. Mendez
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In the literature of public economics, defense has traditionally been held up as a pure public good in the domestic sphere. But there are problems with this formalistic approach, even more so at the international level. In contrast, peace meets the substantive (i.e., welfare) as well as formal criteria of a public good. The chapter focuses on the political and institutional aspects of peace, and the structures required at the level of the international system. Reviewing the historical record as well as the situation since the end of the Cold War, Mendez contrasts three models of international order: collective security, balance of power and hegemony. He argues that only collective security fully takes into account the public good nature of international peace, and that such a system is the most effective in the long run. International organizations such as the U.N. and regional bodies have key roles to play in such a system.
Keywords: defense, global public goods, international organizations, peace, public goods, security, United Nations
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- Title Pages
- Prologue
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Defining Global Public Goods
- Intergenerational Public Goods
- The Political Economy of International Cooperation
- Case Studies
- Equity and Justice
- Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework
- Distributive Justice as an International Public Good
- Global Justice
- Market Efficiency
- Deep Integration and Trade Agreements
- International Financial Instability
- Environment and Cultural Heritage
- Montreal versus Kyoto
- New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods
- Cultural Heritage as Public Good
- Health
- Global Epidemiological Surveillance
- Health as a Global Public Good
- Knowledge and Information
- Knowledge as a Global Public Good
- Global Communications for a More Equitable World
- The Public Face of Cyberspace
- Peace and Security
- Preventing Deadly Conflict
- Peace as a Global Public Good
- International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid
- Regional Public Goods in International Assistance
- Global Public Goods
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- About the Contributors
- Index
