Peter Starke is Professor (mso) at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He works on comparative public policy, including welfare state research, criminal justice and comparative political economy. His publications include The Welfare State as Crisis Manager (with A. Kaasch, F. van Hooren, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Warfare and Welfare (ed. with H. Obinger, K. Petersen, Oxford University Press, 2018).