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Does a change of government influence compliance with international agreements? : empirical evidence for the NATO two percent target
Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963033
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Does a change of government influence compliance with international agreements? : empirical evidence for the NATO two percent target
Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966866
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Chapter 22 Economics of Conflict: An Overview
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 649-709). 2007
In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced, represents a significant departure from the traditional paradigm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024407
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Chapter 21 Economics of Defense in a Globalized World
McGuire, Martin C. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 623-648). 2007
In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … defense economics has thus greatly increased, but the opportunity to exploit new insights from throughout economics grown … on the contributions expected of defense economics in a globalized world where old patterns of thinking risk obsolescence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024408
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Organising co-existence in cyberspace : content regulation and privacy compared
Engel, Christoph - 2002
The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another is almost costless. Foreign content is just a click away. Why is it that states have been able to re-install co-existence in some policy areas, and not in others? In data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582891
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Climate Change and Political (In)Stability
Balcazar, Carlos Felipe; Kennard, Amanda - 2022
As climate change accelerates, a looming question is what effects warming will have on the stability and organization of political systems. We argue that extreme weather associated with climate change can reshape societal relations by altering citizen perceptions of their political environment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077549
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The costs of organized violence : a review of the evidence
Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009
I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861749
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War and relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009
We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854499
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Supply-side peacekeeping : theories and new evidence from a panel data analysis
Bove, Vincenzo - 2010
Why do nations with heterogeneous economies, geographic positions and institutions agree to dispatch their troops to remote conflict areas? This paper explores the domestic and international determinants of countries' contribution to peacekeeping operations from 1999 to 2009. Individual nations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931466
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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror
Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009266761