How do countries recover from civil war? As the contributions in this volume attest, civil war is common and deadly. By one count, civil conflicts have killed n

Has the World Bank's dramatic expansion of aid to countries devastated by civil conflict met its stated goals of speeding economic recovery and decreasing the p

Clearing landmines, rehabilitating and integrating of excombatants, rebuilding the infrastructure, coordinating aid sources—these are just some of the issues

Why do some countries' economies recover from civil conflicts more quickly than others? We contend that the key to economic recovery is a credible commitment to

The Handbook on the Political Economy of War highlights and explores important research questions and discusses the core elements of the political economy of wa