Essays about: "Military Spending"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words Military Spending.

  1. 1. How arms trade and military expenditures affect economic growth

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Anton Edlund Söderberg; [2024]
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    Abstract : Military expenditures are a costly investment especially if a government already has a strained budget to maintain. The aim of this report is to explore whether it is economically viable to motivate such investments and if such investments have other benefits than just the sake of having arms. READ MORE

  3. 2. Corruption and Public Expenditure : Does corruption divert public spending from social to military sector?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Munnu Tomy Kallany; [2022]
    Keywords : Corruption; Military Spending; Social Spending; Healthcare Spending; Education Spending; Public Expenditure; Rent-seeking; Collective Action Problem;

    Abstract : Corruption, militarism, and conflict are bedfellows, and their coexistence feeds a vicious circle of violence and instability. Every dollar spent on the military is a dollar not spent on welfare-generating services such as education and healthcare. READ MORE

  4. 3. Comprehensively Planning for Peace? : A Case Study of Trident in the Three Streams in 2015 and 2016

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Okopi Ato; [2022]
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    Abstract : A case study research strategy and secondary and content analysis was adopted to investigate what blocked a comprehensive discourse from the agenda of Trident renewal from 2015 to 2016 and the constraints that blocked action. Trident renewal was a policy window, which is a critical fleeting opportunity to change the agenda. READ MORE

  5. 4. The (S)wedish idea of security: idealism or realism?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Leo Arnér; [2022]
    Keywords : NATO; Socialdemokraterna; security policy; foreign policy; Sweden; national identity; historical consciousness; neutrality; military non-alignment; use of history; processual relationalism; dramaturgy; European Studies; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Since regaining power in 2014, the Swedish Social Democratic party has pushed a security policy line combining increased spending on the Swedish armed forces and deepened international cooperation while at the same time maintaining the policy of military non-alignment. This tripartite strategy has been nicknamed the “Hultqvist Doctrine" after the current Swedish Minister for Defence. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Effects of Expenditures in Different Military Sectors on Economic Growth A quantitative analysis of NATO countries between 1990 and 2019

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Justus Hogbäck; [2021-08-03]
    Keywords : military expenditures; economic growth; augmented Solow model; NATO;

    Abstract : There is a large literature on the relationship between military spending and economic growth, but there is no general consensus of what the effects might be. The findings are often inconclusive due to the ambiguous effects of supply mechanisms where both positive and negative externalities may arise. READ MORE