Collaborative Research on the Political Economy of Military Spending in the Developing World

发展中国家军费政治经济学合作研究

• 批准号: 8910820
• 负责人: Michael Ward
• 金额: $ 7.44万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-07-01 至 1992-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8910820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Political; Economy; Military

Studies of military spending and arms accumulation in less developed countries have concentrated on arms races. Arms races in the developing world have been especially violent and deadly. This investigation will amplify our understanding of military spending patterns in the developing world by also examining the specific ways in which decision-makers in the developing world use the military budget to help control their economies and to augment their internal political support. These aspects of defense policy making have been shown to be important in Western industrialized societies, but rarely studied in the context of a developing society. In essence, the researchers will be testing these ideas for eight developing nations that are significant arms producers to explore whether the interplay between domestic political and economic concerns, that helps to determine military spending policy in the industrialized world, also apply more generally around the globe. More specifically, a great deal is already known about defense-welfare tradeoffs in Western democracies, but, how, if at all, does this tradeoff operate in the developing world. Systematic, in depth case studies for the political economy of military spending in India, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Egypt, Argentina and Brazil, and South Africa will be conducted. A small computer simulation of the relevant mathematical dynamics in each society will be developed drawing on the insights from prior work. Data for each nation in the study will then be used to "test" the statistical validity of the hypothesized relationships. These data will consist of quantitative information about arms expenditures, arms productions, arms sales, the size of the armed forces, war casualties, et. cetera. Economic data such as GNP, inflation rates, corporate profits, governmental deficits will also be used in addition to information about the domestic political situation in each society. Much like models of the economy, these models will permit different policy scenarios to be explored. Successful completion of this research should embellish our understanding of defense spending in the developing world - - where according to one estimate, roughly 16 million lives have been lost to warfare during the past 40 years.

研究欠发达国家的军事开支和军备积累 各国都集中在军备竞赛上。 世界各国的军备竞赛 发展中国家尤其暴力和致命。 这 调查将加深我们对军费开支的了解 在发展中国家的模式，也审查了具体的方式， 发展中国家的决策者使用军事预算 帮助控制他们的经济， 政治支持。 国防政策制定的这些方面一直是 在西方工业化社会很重要，但很少 在发展中社会的背景下研究。 本质上 研究人员将在八个发展中国家测试这些想法 主要的武器生产国来探讨 在国内政治和经济问题之间，这有助于 决定工业化国家的军费开支政策， 在地球仪中更普遍地应用。 更确切地说， 在西方， 民主，但是，如何，如果有的话，这种权衡在 发展中国家的团结合作 系统的，深入的案例研究，为政治经济学， 印度、韩国、台湾、以色列、埃及、 阿根廷、巴西和南非将进行。 一个小 计算机模拟的相关数学动力学在每个 社会将借鉴以前工作的见解来发展。 研究中每个国家的数据将用于“测试” 假设关系的统计有效性。 这些数据 将包括有关武器开支、武器 生产，武器销售，武装部队的规模，战争伤亡， et.等等。 经济数据，如国民生产总值，通货膨胀率，企业 除了利润，政府赤字也将用于 了解每个社会的国内政治情况。 就像经济模型一样，这些模型将允许不同的 政策方案有待探讨。 这项研究的成功完成将使我们的 了解发展中国家的国防开支- - 据估计，大约有1600万人丧生， 过去40年的战争。