How States Pay for Wars
Book • 2016
How States Pay for Wars explores the fiscal and financial strategies governments use to fund military conflict, including taxation, borrowing, and monetary policy.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski examines the political constraints and institutional arrangements shaping wartime finance, drawing on historical cases to explain variation in state choices.
The book highlights how fiscal capacity, political institutions, and coalition dynamics influence a state's ability to sustain prolonged warfare.
It also assesses the domestic political consequences of different financing strategies.
The study contributes to understanding the interplay between finance and military effectiveness in modern conflicts.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski examines the political constraints and institutional arrangements shaping wartime finance, drawing on historical cases to explain variation in state choices.
The book highlights how fiscal capacity, political institutions, and coalition dynamics influence a state's ability to sustain prolonged warfare.
It also assesses the domestic political consequences of different financing strategies.
The study contributes to understanding the interplay between finance and military effectiveness in modern conflicts.
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Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Paul Poast
Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
