US Military Aid and Recipient State Cooperation

Sullivan, Patricia L.; Tessman, Brock F.; Li, Xiaojun

doi:10.1111/j.1743-8594.2011.00138.x

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“…The use of SEM is in line with the submissions and adoptions by Gyimah-Brempong (1992), Abiola (2003) and Sullivan, Tessman and Li (2011), who noted that the best approach for understanding the interdependencies that exist among variables, which give feedback loops, is to use SEM. This is because single equation overlooks these interdependencies.…”

Section: Hypotheses and Model Specificationmentioning

confidence: 61%

Islamic Development Bank, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Africa: A Simultaneous Equations Model Approach

Mustafa¹,

Razak²

2012

IJEF

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This study is an empirical investigation on the role of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group through its foreign aid activities in contributing to the economic growth of African countries, especially the African Muslim Countries (AMCs). The AMCs, which is serving as the sample countries for this study constitute more than two-third of the IDB member countries from Africa. Therefore, this study provides empirical evidences from AMCs like Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Senegal, Niger, Morocco and Tunisia among others, on the impact of its development assistance (DA) on the economic growth of these countries using balanced panel data of six years average from 1987-2010. In order to accomplish the objectives of this paper, Simultaneous Equations Model (SEM) was adopted and Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Estimate (SURE) method was utilized for its estimation. In view of this, the findings from this study revealed that the DA of IDB has positive impact on the economic growth of AMCs through investment as the major transmission mechanism. Moreover, the impacts of the DA on human capital were more than that of investment and growth. This paper hereby recommends that the IDB should give more attention to these important transmission mechanisms, since they are among the expected gains of foreign aid to LDCs as theoretically advanced in the literature and empirically established. Evidently, this study is perhaps the first of its kind to empirically investigate the impact of the foreign aid activities of IDB in Africa, especially in AMCs.

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Section: Hypotheses and Model Specificationmentioning

confidence: 61%

Islamic Development Bank, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Africa: A Simultaneous Equations Model Approach

Mustafa¹,

Razak²

2012

IJEF

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“…Another advantage of events data is that it paints a more complete picture of the cooperative behavior of states across a wide range of issue areas and thus allows for more general conclusions. A number of other studies of international cooperation have also relied on events data (for example, Leeds 1999;Colaresi 2004;Pevehouse 2004;Fordham 2005;Sullivan, Tessman and Li 2011).…”

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Autocracies and International Cooperation

2014

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Scholarly work on the impact of domestic politics on international cooperation has grown significantly over time. Unfortunately, there is a democratic bias to much of this literature as scholars typically focus on the relative advantage of democracies at cooperation. Our paper seeks to shed more light on the cooperation potential of autocracies by distinguishing different types of autocratic regimes. We argue that autocracies that more closely resemble democracies in the institutional characteristics that have been found to be important for cooperation (that is, greater leader accountability, limited policy flexibility, and greater transparency) should be more successful at cooperation and thus more likely to cooperate with one another and with democracies. Specifically, we expect single‐party and military regimes to be advantaged at international cooperation compared to personalist systems. We test our theoretical expectations using the 10 Million International Dyadic Events data (1990–2004) and find support for our theoretical argument.

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“…I am equally not assuming that arms supplying states anticipate civil wars in the future, but that they choose their recipients for varying reasons. See Sullivan et al (2011) and Erickson (2011) for further debate on the selections of arms recipients. 10 See the data provided by SIPRI: http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/values.php, retrieved on 04.…”

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Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars

Klosek

2019

MV-CJIR

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Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civil wars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in the civil war country. However, this study argues that there exists a subset of interventions in which weaker powers intervene on behalf of interests which great powers hold vis-à-vis the civil war country. Using the logic of principal-agent theory in combination with arms trade data allows one to identify 14 civil wars which experienced the phenomenon of indirect military interventions. This type of intervention features a weaker power providing troops for combat missions, whereas its major arms supplier is only involved with indirect military support. The analysis is complemented with two brief case studies on the Moroccan intervention in Zaire (1977) and the Ugandan intervention in the Central African Republic (2009). Both case studies corroborate expectations as deduced from the proxy intervention framework.

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US Military Aid and Recipient State Cooperation

Cited by 43 publications

References 35 publications

Islamic Development Bank, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Africa: A Simultaneous Equations Model Approach

Islamic Development Bank, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Africa: A Simultaneous Equations Model Approach

Autocracies and International Cooperation

Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars

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