Purchasing Power
US Overseas Defense Spending and Military Statecraft
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6283424 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Blankenship (0000-0002-0391-1112, Dartmouth College, corresponding author), Renanah Miles Joyce (0000-0002-4470-6385, Columbia University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 545-573 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002719854786 |
| OpenAlex | W2951328182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 39 |
The literature on economic statecraft has long focused on the effectiveness of foreign aid and trade as tools of inducement. However, existing scholarship largely neglects the role played by government procurement. By choosing to purchase goods or hire labor in foreign states, governments can provide economic benefits for strategic ends. The United States in particular leverages its defense procurement as a foreign policy tool. We introduce a new data set of US government procurement using information on all contracts executed overseas from 2000 to 2015. We develop a typology of how states use procurement to achieve foreign policy goals—power projection, counterinsurgency, and development—and provide descriptive statistics to explore variation in spending across countries and over time. We illustrate the power of the contract data by using it to code US military access in Africa, assess the relationship between spending and economic growth, and test whether economic inducements can buy influence
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Foreign policy · Government (linguistics · Government procurement · International trade · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Procurement · Public economics · Purchasing · Scholarship · Sociology · Typology · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · International Development and Aid · Law · Marketing · Public Procurement and Policy
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Rewarding loyalty
International Military Alliances, 1648-2008
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |