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.

Tim Battin, senior lecturer, University of New England; Australia
David Edgerton, professor, Kings College London, United Kingdom
Maurizio Ferrera, professor, University of Milan, Italy
John Gal, professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Gregory J. Kasza, professor, Indiana University, USA
Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki,.
Matthieu Leimgruber, University of Zurich.
Christopher Lloyd, University of New England, Australia.
Dirk Luyten, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary society, Brussels.
Herbert Obinger, Bremen University.
Klaus Petersen, University of Southern Denmark.
Robert Saldin, University of Montana, USA.
Carina Schmitt, Bremen University.
Michael Shalev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Timothy B. Smith, Queen's University, Canada.
Peter Starke, University of Southern Denmark.
Nils Arne Sorensen, University of Southern Denmark.

"An ambitious inquiry into the historical relationship between war and welfare. Warfare and Welfare asks the big question about how wars affect welfare states, and answers it by comparing detailed case studies from over a dozen industrialized nations in the twentieth century. The contributors challenged themselves to examine interactions between more than one armed conflict and the entirety of the welfare state in each nation. While scholars will find many warfare-welfare interactions they identify familiar, they'll find just as many to be new. And more importantly they'll find novel questions to ask of their own research. This book will become necessary reading for scholars of war and of the welfare state." - Jennifer Mittelstadt, Professor of History, Rutgers University

"Warfare and Welfare is one of those rare books which bring us path breaking research. The influence of wars on the evolution of welfare states has been discussed for decades, but has, so far, never been given any systematic empirical treatment. In this pioneering comparative study, the authors identify with impeccable scholarship the multiple and quite complex causal pathways that link the dynamics of war to welfare state development. It is a must-read for anyone even remotely interested in the history of social policies." - Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

"The argument of this masterful work is that war has not just drained the coffers that might pay for social programs, but also stimulated their growth and development Bringing together a dream team of global experts - all given the same rigorous remit - it surveys the emergence of the welfare state in the 20C from the ruins of the inter- and post-war years. The editors' introduction and conclusion magisterially survey a vast field in this exemplar of collaborative scholarship." - Peter Baldwin, Professor of History, UCLA and NYU