Civil war, spillover and neighbors' military spending

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 developmen...

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Published in:Conflict management and peace science 2015-09, Vol.32 (4), p.425-442
Main Author: Phillips, Brian J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil war
Defense spending
Developing countries
LDCs
Neighbors
War
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Summary: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 to 2006 suggest that bordering civil wars are associated with military spending levels, independently of arms races or civil war interventions. Analyses use measures of neighboring civil war that take into consideration whether or not the civil war zone reaches the shared border.
ISSN:0738-8942
1549-9219
DOI:10.1177/0738894214530853