Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - In: Defence and Peace Economics 22 (2011) 3, pp. 279-297
So far, economic analyses of NATO enlargement have been restricted to aspects of regional security while political …-communist countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 reveal that direct incentives provided by NATO pre-accession are important for broad …-based institutional development. Results are even more robust than for variables measuring EU pre-accession or NATO membership effects …