Beeres, Robert; Bakker, Eric Jan De; Bollen, Myriame; … - In: Defence and Peace Economics 23 (2012) 4, pp. 365-387
This article examines the pattern of expenditures for national security of the Netherlands from 1990 until 2009. In 1990, military spending amounted to 2.7% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 2009, almost two decades later, this ratio dropped by more than a full percent. During this period, the...