Warfare and Welfare Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries

Herbert Obinger is Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy, University of Bremen. His research focuses on comparative welfare state research and comparative political economy. His publications include The Political Economy of Privatization in Rich Democracies (with Carina Schmidtt and Stefan Traub, OUP, 2016), The Welfare State as Crisis Manager (with Peter Starke, Alexandra Kaasch, and Franca van Hooren, Palgrave 2013), and The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (co-edited with Francis G. Castles, Jane Lewis, Stephan, Leibfried, , and Christopher Pierson, OUP, 2010).

Klaus Petersen is Professor of Welfare History and Director of the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies, University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on welfare state history, the Nordic model of welfare, and on contemporary Danish history. He has published in a number of leading journals including Journal of European Social Policy and the British Journal of Political Science.

Peter Starke is Associate Professor at the Danish Center for Welfare Studies, University of Southern Denmark. His research is in comparative welfare state research, qualitative and mixed methodology and political economy. His publications include Radical Welfare State Retrenchment (2008) and The Welfare State as Crisis Manager (2013), as well as articles in journals such as Policy Studies Journal, the Journal of European Public Policy, and Politics & Society.

1. Introduction: Studying the Welfare-War Nexus, Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen, and Peter Starke
2. The Impact of War on Welfare State Development in Germany, Peter Starke
3. War Preparation, Warfare, and the Welfare State in Austria, Herbert Obinger
4. Italy: Wars, Political Extremism, and the Constraints to Welfare Reform, Maurizio Ferrera
5. The Two World Wars and Social Policy in France, Timothy B. Smith
6. Welfare Policy and War in Japan, Gregory J. Kasza
7. Foreign Policy on the Home Front: War and the Fevelopment of the American Welfare State, Robert P. Saldin
8. War and the Development of the British Welfare State, David Edgerton
9. Reinforcements for the Wage-Earners' Welfare State? The Effects of the Two World Wars on Australia's Model of Welfare, Christopher Lloyd and Tim Battin
10. Wars, Nation, and the Welfare State in Finland, Pauli Kettunen
11. From Military State to Welfare State: The War-Welfare Nexus in Denmark, 1848-1950s, Klaus Petersen and Nils Arne Sorensen
12. Diverging Paths: The Impact of the Two World Wars on Welfare State Development in Belgium and the Netherlands, Dirk Luyten
13. War and Social Policy Development in Switzerland, 1870-1990, Matthieu Leimgruber
14. Bullets and Benefits in the Israeli Welfare State, Michael Shalev and John Gal
15. War and Welfare States Before and After 1945: Conclusions and Perspectives, Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen, Carina Schmitt, and Peter Starke