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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 - In: Defence and Peace Economics (2019) Latest Articles, pp. 1-19

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...

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Peace as an international public good: An application to Southern Africa

Brauer, Jurgen; Roux, Andre - In: Defence and Peace Economics 11 (2000) 4, pp. 643-659

the case of security and peace in southern Africa. To this end, it extracts from the literature a set of fundamental …

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MULTI-CHANNEL SUPPLY CHAIN FOR ILLICIT SMALL ARMS

Markowski, Stefan; Koorey, Stephanie; Hall, Peter; … - In: Defence and Peace Economics 20 (2009) 3, pp. 171-191

To generate effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, governments …

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An alliance between Cyprus and Greece: assessing its partners' relative security contribution

Andreou, A. S.; Parsopoulos, K. E.; Vrahatis, M. N.; … - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 481-495

The issue that this paper tackles is the assessment of the relative security benefits that Cyprus and Greece derive in … uses a coefficient especially designed to assess the optimal levels of security and the associated defence expenditure of … the two allies. A comparison of the relative security coefficient values for the two allies suggests that the security …

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DO defence expenditures increase debt rescheduling in Turkey? probit model approach

Karagol, Erdal; Sezgin, Selami - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 471-480

This paper empirically investigates the importance of financial and political variables in determining debt rescheduling probabilities in Turkey for 1955-2000. The problem of sovereign debt default and rescheduling has been the subject of substantial academic research during the last two...

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The structure of the defense industry and the security needs of the country: a differentiated products model

Mantin, Benny; Tishler, Asher - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 397-419

This paper models the interactions between the defense needs of the USA and Western Europe, which produce several heterogeneous defense goods, and the defense industry market structure. The results show that net defense costs of the USA and Europe are lower when the number of defense firms in...

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Defence Spending and Growth in Cyprus: A Causal Analysis

Kollias, Christos; Naxakisb, Charis; Zarangasb, Leonidas - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 3, pp. 299-307

The causal relationship between economic growth and defence spending has attracted considerable attention and has been the subject of many empirical studies. Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and growth in...

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Does defence expenditure deter economic growth in Turkey? A cointegration analysis

Karagol, Erdal; Palaz, Serap - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 3, pp. 289-298

This paper investigates a series of unit root, cointegration and causality tests to ascertain the direction of causality between the growth of GNP and defence expenditure in Turkey for the years 1955-2000. The main conclusion is that there is a long-run equilibrium relationship between GNP and...

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Investigating optimal replacement of aging air force systems

Keating, Edward; Dixon, Matthew - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 421-431

An availability-oriented approach has been developed to decide when to replace an aging system. For an existing system, it is optimal to operate another year if and only if the incremental cost per available year is less than the lifetime average cost per available year of a new aircraft. We...

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Outsourcing Military Force: A Transactions Cost Perspective on the Role of Military Companies

Fredland, Eric - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 3, pp. 205-219

Since the mid-1990s, the operations of private, for profit, military companies have been the subject of increased political and media scrutiny. Firms in this industry provide both combat and support functions to sovereign governments. In this paper, the current and potential future role of these...

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