Ethnic Cleavage as a Component of Global Military Expenditures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3917852
AutoresRobert M Rosh (Clark University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1987
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas21-30
Fecha de publicación1987-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/002234338702400103
OpenAlexW1977661796
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas17

This study argues that countries which are characterized by ethnic cleavage allocate a larger percentage of their resources to military expenditures in order to maintain control over ethnically diverse and fragmented populaces. The results of the statistical analysis undertaken contradict two previous empirical studies that had produced counter-intuitive results suggesting that there was no ethnic dimension to global militarization. Both an historical and a statistical cross-sectional analysis (for the year 1979) are employed in order to demonstrate that the greater the degree a country is characterized by ethnic cleavages the greater the percentage of its Gross National Product that will be allocated to military resources even after controlling for alternative explanations

Cleavage (geology) · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statistical analysis · Statistics · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Demography · Engineering · Global trade and economics · International Development and Aid · Law · Mathematics