INTERNATIONAL INTERRELATION ON THE MAIN OECD DEFENSE SPENDING

The Cold War has two kinds of effect in the modern world system. The first one is the excess defense spending of each individual country, specially that of both US and USSR, which probably weakened both big economies. The second one is to bring about serious regional conflicts in the world. This pap...

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Published inBehaviormetrika Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 125 - 150
Main Author Kosaka, Hiroyuki
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The Behaviormetric Society 1993
Subjects
arms races
catastrophe model
cold war
OECD defense spending
Richardson model
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Summary:The Cold War has two kinds of effect in the modern world system. The first one is the excess defense spending of each individual country, specially that of both US and USSR, which probably weakened both big economies. The second one is to bring about serious regional conflicts in the world. This paper is focusing on the first effect of the Cold War. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to describe the state of the Cold War on the main OECD countries' defense spending. It would be made clear how the disarmament affects these countries' military spending. The models used were action-reaction type, which depicts the determination of one country's defense spending in response to that of the enemy country. And it was confirmed that this type of models is adequate for describing the Cold War.
ISSN:0385-7417
1349-6964
DOI:10.2333/bhmk.20.125