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A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE BURDEN SHARING ASPECTS OF A EUROPEAN UNION COMMON DEFENCE POLICY.
- Source :
- Defence & Peace Economics; Aug2008, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p253-263, 11p, 7 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The move towards a common European defence policy raises a multitude of multidimensional and complex issues. As pointed out in a recent paper (Hartley, 2003), these issues include economic aspects ranging from the role of the European defence industrial base to the costs of a common defence policy, and therefore the issue of burden sharing. This paper, assuming that the provision of common European defence to the participating members has the characteristics of a pure public good, approaches the burden sharing issue raised by Hartley (2003) by calculating a simple benefit share index that is then compared with the contribution made by each country to the costs of the common defence. Assuming the existence of a European Defence Union, the results indicate that some members are under-contributing while others are over-contributing in relation to the benefits derived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MILITARY policy
PUBLIC goods
GOVERNMENT policy
MILITARY readiness
MILITARY spending
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10242694
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Defence & Peace Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 33140760
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10242690802164777