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Weapons for Peace? The Unexpected Benefits of UNSC
MembershipAnirudha Vaddadi and Josi Sinagoga
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The Study
• Research Question: Do countries leverage their political importance for weapons imports?
• Specifically: Do countries on the United Nations Security Council as rotating members receive more arms imports from Germany?
• Results: Our analysis finds a robust relationship between UNSC membership and the importation of German arms
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Background
The International Arms Trade
• Cold War Era
• Post-Cold War Era
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Background, contd.
Why Germany?
• Position in Arms Market
• Political System
• Exclusion from the P5
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Methodology
• Dependent Variable: Heavy arms imports from Germany, measured by Trend Indicator Value (TIV) - general arms imports are also used as a comparison
• Independent Variable: UNSC Membership - dichotomous indicator
• Controls: year of election into UNSC, ln(GDP per capita), ln(population), war, political regime, trade with Germany, German colony
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Methodology, contd.
• Country and year fixed-effects
• Clustered errors
• Focusing regression analysis on Africa due to its unique UNSC selection process
• Regressions on individual countries
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Results
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Results
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ResultsCountries with statistically significant
relationships:Country UN Regional Group
Austria Western European and Others
Bangladesh Asia-Pacific
Brazil Latin American and Caribbean
Hungary Eastern European
Ireland Western European and Others
South Africa African
South Korea Asia-Pacific
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Concluding Remarks
• “Power Resources”
• Buying Peace with Weapons
• Future Research?