Naslov
Moving NATO burdensharing in to the future: Analyzing NATO burdensharing in the post-Cold war period

Autori
Runje, Leon

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
INDECS / - , 2022, 1-6

Skup
Foundations of Future

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 05.05.2022. - 06.05.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
NATO, Post – Cold War period, burdensharing, pure alliance model, joint product model

Sažetak
The paper makes a key step in the literature by moving NATO alliance burdensharing research forward in its temporal dimension. It analysesalliance burdensharing in the post-Cold War period thereby filling the gap in the research which has, thus far, been exclusively focused on burdensharing during the Cold-War period. This is of key importance not only because it advances the research in to the future, something which has so far been neglected in the literature, but also because it necessitates methodological innovation. This is due to the fact that traditional burdensgharingmethods listed below, tend to partially break down when not applied to the interactions of a bi-polar security world order. The contributions of this paper are therefore both content and methodological. The paper conducts an analysis of burdensharing among the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for the time period from 1990 to 2019. The analysis is conducted for all those countries which are members, or have become members of NATO during the aforementioned time period. The paper builds upon the theory of collective action as developed by Olson and Zeckhauser in their 1966 paper the economic theory of alliances, and furthermorethejoint product model of alliance, a theoretic – conceptual framework developed by a range of authors, from Olson and Zeckhauser (1966), Sandler (1977), Sandler&Forbers (1980) and further elaborated by Plumper and Neumayer (2014) and George and Sandler (2017). The paper expands the research already provided in the literature by deploying a wide array of quantitative methodologies (country economic size as an indicator of the level of the national defense ambition, level of interdependence through EU integration and NATO member state responsiveness to defense spending increases undertaken by the US) to study burdensharing levels within NATO during the Post-Cold War time period.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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