Offers of papers are invited for a conference sponsored by Economists Allied for Arms Reductions (ECAAR), the Arms Trade Group, and Middlesex University Business School. The conference will consider the relations between arms production and trade, conflict, security and economic development in both developed and developing countries. The conference will have plenary sessions with keynote speakers plus specialist workshop streams.

The Peace Science Society Conference will be taking place on 13-14^th June at the same venue

Proposed topics include:

• Globalisation and the restructuring of the MIC
• Economics of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction
• Economics of the arms trade
• Procurement and offsets
• Economics of information warfare
• Arms races and alliances
• The peace dividend and conversion
• Policy responses

But offers of papers on other related topics are welcome.

Confirmed speakers include:

Ron Smith; Todd Sandler; Jurgen Brauer; Paul Levine and Paul Dunne.

Please send a title and abstract before 30^th April 2001 to Maria Lane at:

Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, Hendon London, NW4 4BT

Phone and fax: +208 411 6825 Email: M.Lane@mdx.ac.uk

The Peace Science Society Conference will be taking place on 13-14^th June at the same venue and further information on both will be available from:

http://bobbins.mdx.ac.uk