Announcements
Tilman Brück in the "Berliner Zeitung": Tilman Brück, Coordinator of EUSECON, was interviewed on the efficiency of counter-terrorism policies. One aspect that was highlighted is that these policies are often expensive and less effective than they could be. Click here to download the German-language article.
Tilman Brück holds a lecture on the economics of security at the University of Potsdam. His speech is part of the lecture series on “Homeland Security” organized by the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS). Please click here for more information about the lecture series.
EUSECON has launched a series of Policy Briefings on the Economics of Security. The series aims to present the most salient findings of the four-year research project to a wide range of audiences, including policy-makers, security experts, and general readers interested in this topic. To view the Policy Briefings Series, please refer to the webpage.
The Economics and Security Resource Page provides links to useful resources on the economics of information security, including key papers, conferences, and relevant books.
A guest article by Tilman Brück, "Nach dem Tod bin Ladens: Warum Al Kaida ein florierendes Terror-Unternehmen bleibt" (After the death of bin Laden: why al-Qaeda remains a flourishing business), has been published by Handelsblatt.com. The author explains why the terror network remains powerful after the death of its leader.
The Economist published an article about a study by Olaf de Groot, Anja Shortland and Matthew Rablen "Gov-aargh-nance – “even criminals need law and order". To read the article, please follow this link.
Professor Tilman Brück has been appointed by the Swedish Government to become the eighth Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), starting from January 2013. For more information, please visit the SIPRI website.
Call for Papers: the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are jointly organising a workshop on the Economic Analysis of Conflict in Central, South and Southeast Asia. The workshop will take place in New Delhi, India on 18-19 March 2013. The deadline for submitting papers is 8 February 2013. Please see the call for papers for further details.
EUSECON
EUSECON (A New Agenda for European Security Economics) is a four-year collaborative research project that analyzes the causes, dynamics, and long-term effects of both human-induced insecurity threats and European security policies. The project was funded from 2008 till 2012 by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme and comprised a consortium of top economists and social scientists from across Europe. It was managed by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
The EUSECON project broadly defines “insecurity” to include terrorism and organized crime. The project’s focus is on the human drivers of insecurity. The consortium utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to promote in-depth understanding of insecurity threats emerging from terrorism and organized crime. It aims to uncover the much-needed information base for effective domestic and international security policy. There will also be an emphasis on identifying and limiting the costs of anti-terror policies, in order to achieve secure growth.
EUSECON goals are:
• To define the field of security economics and provide a framework for its analysis;
• To identify and address gaps in knowledge in the discipline of security economics;
• To generate policy-relevant knowledge that improves policy-making in the European Union;
• To disseminate academic and policy-relevant knowledge in order to promote information exchange between dispersed researchers; and
• To foster the establishment of a sustainable network of economic security experts.
Project funded by the EU under FP7