In Memoriam: Michael D. Ward (1948–2021)

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We were deeply saddened by the passing of our mentor, friend, and colleague Michael D. Ward on 9 July 2021. Mike served on the editorial board of Defence and Peace Economics from the start of 1990 until 2015, and made important contributions to the study of military expenditures, the economics of peace and militarized conflict, as well as modeling and statistical methods in the social sciences. We extend our deep sympathies to Mike’s family Sandra and Chris.
Born in Japan to a military family, Mike had a long academic career, at many institutions and multiple countries. He received a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1977, with a doctoral dissertation on the political economy of inequality, which was later published as The Political Economy of Distribution: Equality Versus Inequality (Elsevier–North Holland, 1978), in which he drew attention to the role of international factors and domestic processes on multiple facets of inequality beyond income.

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