Prof. Raul Caruso
Raul Caruso, educated in Naples (MA), Leuven (Msc) and Milan (PhD), is currently affiliated at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart where he is professor of Peace economics, International Economics and Economics of Crime. He is editor in chief of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (USA) and he is also in the editorial board of Defence and Peace Economics (USA), the Economics of Peace and security Journal (USA), RivistaInternazionale di ScienzeSociali (Italy). He is Director of CESPIC (European Centre of Peace Science Integraiton and Cooperation) at the Caholic University 'Our Lady of Good Counsel'. There he is also serving as Rector’s delegate to International Relations. He has served as executive director of Network of European Peace Scientists (2009 - 2019) and he is head of the Italian Chapter of Economists for Peace and Security. He is also member of the scientific committees of Center for Applied Economics (CSEA) and Center for Higher Education Internationalization (CHEI) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. There he is the representative within the Italian Network of University for Peace. He had lectured at MIT (USA), Hiroshima University (Japan), Central University of Finance and Economics of Bejing (China), Warsaw University (Poland), Kazakh Humanitarian Law University (Kazakstahn), and Novosibirsk State University (Russian Federation), American University of Cairo (Egypt) and he has been invited to give seminars in several universities in Italy and worldwide. He has been awarded with the Stuart Bremer Award in 2004, with PremioIsimbardi in 2011, with the Emerald Outstanding Author Contribution in 2012, with ManasChatterji Award for excellence in Peace Economics and Peace Science in 2014, with NEPS Medal for best publication in Peace Science and with Premiocapri in 2017. He is also director of Assobenefit, the Italian firms’ association of benefit corporations. He has been serving as columnist of catholic newspaper Avvenire for several years. In 2020 he is serving in the organizing committee of Economy of Francesco.
Related publications
Peer-Review Articles
Caruso R., Pontarollo N., Ricciuti R., (2020) RegionalDiffusion of MilitaryRegimes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Papers in Regional Science, vol.99, 1, pp. 225-244.
Biscione A., Caruso R. (2019), Military Expenditures and Income Inequality Evidence from a Panel of Transition Countries (1990-2015), Defence and Peace Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2019.1661218
Bassetti T., Caruso R., Schneider F., (2018), The Tree of Violence: a GMRET Analysis, Empirical Economics , vol. 54, n.2, 839-850.
Caruso R., Di Domizio M., Savage D., (2017), Differences in National Identity, Violence and Conflict in International Sport Tournaments: Hic Sunt Leones!Kyklos, vol. 70, n.4, pp. 511-545.
Caruso R., Di Domizio M., (2017), Military Spending and Budget Deficits: The Impact of US Military Spending on Public Debt in Europe (1988-2013), Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 28, n.5, pp.534-549
Caruso R., Petrarca I., Ricciuti R., (2016), ClimateChange, Rice Crops and Violence. Evidence from Indonesia. Journal of Peace Research, vol. 53, n.1, pp. 66-83.
McDougal T., Caruso R. (2016), Is there a relationship between wartime violence and postwar agricultural development outcomes? The case of concessions and community grants in Mozambique, Political Geography, 50, 20-32.
Caruso R., Khadka P., Petrarca I., Ricciuti R., (2017) The economic impact of peacekeeping. Evidence from South Sudan. Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 28, n.2, pp. 250-270. DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2015.1122282.
Caruso R., Di Domizio M., (2016), Interdependence Between US and European Military Spending: A Panel Cointegration Analysis (1988-2013), Applied Economics Letters, vol. 23, n.4, pp. 302-305.
Caruso R., Schneider F., (2011), The Socio-Economic determinants of terrorism and political violence in Western Europe (1994-2007). European Journal of Political Economy. Vol.27, S1, s37-s49
Caruso R., Schneider F., (2013) Brutality of Jihadist Terrorism. A contest theory perspective and empirical evidence inthe period 2002-2010, Journal of Policy Modeling, vol. 35, n.5, pp. 685-696
Caruso R., (2010), Butter, Guns and Ice-Cream, Theory and evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 21, n.3, pp. 269-283.
Caruso R., (2010), On the nature of Peace Economics, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, vol. 16, n.2, art.1
Caruso R., (2006), A Trade Institution as a Peaceful Institution? A contribution to Integrative Theory, Conflict Management and Peace Science, vol. 23, n. 1, pp. 53-72.
Caruso R., (2003), The impact of International Economic Sanctions on Trade. An Empirical Analysis, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, vol. 9, no.2.
Caruso R., (2017), Peace Economics and Peaceful Economic Policies, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, vol. 12, n.2, doi:10.15355/epsj.12.2.16
Caruso R., Di Domizio M., (2015), The Impact of US Military Spending on Public Debt In Europe (1992-2013): A Note, Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy, vol. 21, n.4, pp. 459-466.
Caruso R., Petrarca I., Ricciuti R., (2015), Spillover of MilitaryRegimes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, vol. 123, n.4, pp.381-393.
Caruso R., (2015), Beyond Deterrence and Decline, Towards a General Understanding of PeaceEconomics, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, vol. 128, n.1, pp. 57-74
Caruso R., Locatelli A., (2013), Finmeccanica amid International Market and State Control, a Survey of the Italian Military Industry, Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 24, n.1, pp.89-104.
Caruso R., (2012), Differentials in Property Rights in a two-sector Economy, Revue d’EconomiePolitique, vol.122, n.2, pp.257-278
Caruso R., Addesa F., (2012), Country Survey: Military expenditure and Its Impact on Productivity in Italy, (1988-2008). Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 23, n.5, pp. 471-484.
Caruso R., Gavrilova E., (2012), Youth Unemployment and Political Violence, Evidence from Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (1997-2007), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, vol.18,n.2, art. 2
Caruso R., (2012). Contest with Cooperative Behavior: a note, Economics Bulletin, vol.32, n.2, pp.1747-1754
Caruso R., McDougal T., (2012), Wartime Violence and Post-Conflict Political Mobilization in Mozambique, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, vol. 18, n.3.
Caruso R., (2010), International Relative Prices and Civil Wars in Africa: a note, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, vol. 16, n.1, www.bepress.com/peps/vol16/iss1/1
Caruso R. (2008), Reciprocity in the shadow of threat. International Review of Economics, vol.55, n.1/2, pp.91-111.
Caruso R., Locatelli A., (2008), Deadly contests: an economic note on al-Qaeda’s reward system, The Economics of Peace and security Journal, vol.3, n.2, pp.62-68.
Caruso R., (2007), Continuing Conflict and Stalemate: A Note, Economics Bulletin, vol.4, no.17, pp.1-8.
Books
Caruso R. (2018), Chiamata alle armi, EGEA, Milano. ISBN 8823836328. [italian]
Caruso R., (2017) Economia della pace, Bologna, Il Mulino, ISBN 8815259961. [italian]
Caruso R., Locatelli A. (eds.), (2014), Understanding Terrorism, A socio-economic perspective, Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley, UK, series: Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace, Economics and Development, vol. 22.
Caruso R., (2011), (ed.), Ethnic Conflict, Civil War and Cost of Conflict, Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley, UK, series: Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace, Economics and Development.
Other selected publications
Caruso R., (2019), The Italian Defence Industry, inBelin, J. and Hartley, K. (eds.), The Economics of the Global Defence Industry, Routledge, London.
Caruso R., (2018), Unfamiliar conseguences of Military Expenditures, in Baussola M., Bellavite Pellegrini C., Vivarelli M., (eds.), Essays in honor of Luigi Campiglio, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, ISBN 8834335627.
Caruso R. (2016), Identity and Incentives: An Economic Interpretation of the Holocaust, Anderton C., Brauer J. (eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention, Oxford University Press.
Brauer J. Caruso R. (2016), “For Being Aboriginal”, Economic Perspectives on Pre-Holocaust Genocides and Mass Killings, in Anderton C., Brauer J. (eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention, Oxford University Press.
Caruso R., Costa J., and Ricciuti R. (2013). The Probability of Military Rule, Africa 1970-2007, in Karl Warneryd(ed.), The Economics of Conflict, MIT Press, Cambridge MA forthcoming.
Brauer J., Caruso R., (2013), Economists and Peacebuilding, in Roger Mac Ginty (ed.), Handbook of Peacebuilding, Routledge, London, ch.11. pp. 147-158.
Caruso R., (2016), Strategia del buyback per ridurre le armi, Vita e pensiero, vol. 100, n. 1, 119-125.
Caruso R. (2014), La pace come motore dello sviluppo economico, Aggiornamenti sociali, October 2014, pp. 661-670.
Caruso R. (2009), Il pensiero di Kenneth Boulding, economista irenico, relazioni umane tra scambio, dono e coercizione, Storia del Pensiero Economico, n.2, pp.5-30.
Caruso R., Locatelli A., (2009), Una Gara al Massacro: Incentivi, premi e prestazioni dei gruppi terroristici legati ad al Qaeda, Il Politico, n.229, 2/2009, pp. 63-91.
Caruso R., (2019), Schiavitù, lavoro sotto coercizione e (im)produttività, il dato nascosto di economie che non funzionano, in “Impresa, mercato e lavoro schiavistico: alla ricerca di regole efficaci. Atti del convegno svoltosi a Milano il 25 gennaio 2018Collana dell’Osservatorio “Giordano Dell’Amore” della Fondazione CNPDS, Giuffrè, Torino.
Caruso R., (2018), Il mercato globale delle armi convenzionali: natura e dinamiche, in Caritas Italiana (ed.), Il peso delle armi, Il Mulino, Bologna.
