In cooperation with DIW, the German Institute for Economic Research. Click here to see the programme.
What are the driving forces behind terrorist activities and organised crime? How does insecurity impact individuals and the private sector and how do they respond to it? What is the role of European policy in dealing with these threats? What new forms of insecurity, such as maritime piracy, have emerged recently? These and other questions have been the focus of the four-year research project EUSECON – A New Agenda for European Security Economics. Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Tilman Brück at DIW Berlin – German Institute for Economic Research, the project analyses economic causes, forms and effects of the human drivers of insecurity as well as security measures.
EUSECON has convened leading security economists and social scientists from across Europe. The research carried out in the project has already found its way to publication in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Science, European Journal of Political Economy, Defence and Peace Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution and in a series of policy briefs published online. Click here for more information about the research and publications on security economics.