This series aims to trace the economic and social consequences of conflict both theoretically and through empirical investigations. This volume provides an analytical framework and examines the political economy of countries at war, along with the costs of war for the countries worst affected. This two-volume study verifies long-held intuitions and observations that war entails costs and benefits that are distributed unevenly ... this study should serve as a good reference and as an invitation to scholars to study war and development more thoroughly.