Author : Brian J. Phillips
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Book Synopsis Civil War, Spillover, and Neighbors' Military Spending by : Brian J. Phillips
Download or read book Civil War, Spillover, and Neighbors' Military Spending written by Brian J. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper brings together studies of civil war consequences and literature on military spending, introducing a novel mechanism for how civil wars adversely affect neighbors - through neighbors' increased military spending. Military expenditures are important because they often inhibit development. Civil wars affect proximate states' defense spending because the potential spillover threatens neighbors. Tests on developing countries from 1950-2006 suggest that bordering civil wars are associated with military spending levels, independently of arms races or civil war interventions. Analyses use GIS-derived measures of neighboring civil war that take into consideration whether or not the civil war zone reaches the shared border.