Understanding the relationship between military spending cuts and military capacity: European states 2000-2012
Europeans have been spending increasingly less on defense. This trend is puzzling on two accounts. Empirically, 30% of defense spending cuts correlated with a net increase in military capacity, contradicting conventional predictions of military degradation under budgetary pressures. Theoretically, i...
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Language: | en_US |
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2016
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19744 |