Defense Spending, Natural Resources, and Conflict
This book is an intellectual contribution from policy scientists and researchers from different academic institutions in different parts of the world. The Arab Spring, the rise of ISIS, and terrorism ignite the debate on studying conflict and natural resources. Uniquely, the book discusses the sources of the conflicts and the institutions that are managing the conflicts. The natural resources, defense spending, conflict, and human welfare are intertwined. In support of the resource curse hypothesis, the book shows that an abundance of natural resources, particularly oil, encourages an increase in military spending and lower economic growth. In addition, the good economic and political institutions do reduce the hazard of conflict; and strong political institutions for checks and balances appear to weaken the impact of natural resources on conflicts. The book also examines the relationship between defense and social welfare expenditures specifically, health and education. Shedding light on the complicated nature of the relationship between defense spending, inequality, and types of political and welfare regimes, gives us a deeper understanding of the type of democratic systems that will likely improve social welfare. In studying the political economy of defense spending, the book shows the link between public opinion toward defense spending and voters support for candidates. The analysis shows that party identification, or having a vested interest in defense industries, does correlate with a preference for increasing defense spending.
This book was published as a special issue of Defence and Peace Economics .
Christos Kollias is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Thessaly, Department of Economics, Greece. He is also Editor of Defence and Peace Economics , External Research Associate of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy, Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research , co-edits the book series Science & Society (in Greek).
Hamid E. Ali is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He formerly taught at Southern Methodist University and Texas State University, USA. He was an auditor for the US Government Accountability Office and served on the editorial boards of many academic journals. He authored the book Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development by Routledge.
Defense Spending, Natural
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Contents
Hamid E. Ali
Hamid E. Ali and Omnia A. Abdellatif
J. Paul Dunne and Nan Tian
Eric S. Lin, Hamid E. Ali and Yu-Lung Lu
nal Tngr and Adem Y. Elveren
Sencer Ecer and Nicholas J. Veasey
Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto
Gilles Carbonnier and Natascha Wagner
The chapters in this book were originally published in Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Defense Spending, Natural Resources, and Conflict
Hamid E. Ali
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 13
Chapter 2
Military Expenditures and Natural Resources: Evidence from Rentier States in the Middle East and North Africa
Hamid E. Ali and Omnia A. Abdellatif
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 513
Chapter 3
Military Expenditure, Economic Growth and Heterogeneity
J. Paul Dunne and Nan Tian
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 1531
Chapter 4
Does Military Spending Crowd Out Social Welfare Expenditures? Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Eric S. Lin, Hamid E. Ali and Yu-Lung Lu
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 3348
Chapter 5
Military Expenditures, Income Inequality, Welfare and Political Regimes: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
nal Tngr and Adem Y. Elveren
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 4974
Chapter 6
The Shifting Determinants of Defense Spending Preferences between 1980 and 2008
Sencer Ecer and Nicholas J. Veasey
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 7588
Chapter 7
Resource Rents, Institutions, and Violent Civil Conflicts
Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 89113
Chapter 8
Resource Dependence and Armed Violence: Impact on Sustainability in Developing Countries
Gilles Carbonnier and Natascha Wagner
Defence and Peace Economics , volume 26, issue 1 (February 2015) pp. 115132
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Omnia A. Abdellatif is based in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University, Cairo, Egypt.
Hamid E. Ali is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He formerly taught at Southern Methodist University and Texas State University, USA. He was an auditor for the US Government Accountability Office and served on the editorial boards of many academic journals. He authored the book Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development by Routledge.
Gilles Carbonnier is Professor of International Economics in the Development Studies Section of the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
