Investigating the impact of regional economic integration on Interstate Military Conflicts: Evidence from 1980-2000 Military Interstate Dispute Data
Date of Publication
2010
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics
College
Ramon V. Del Rosario College of Business
Department/Unit
Economics
Defense Panel Chair
Myrna S. Austria
Defense Panel Member
Marvin Raymond Castell
Abstract/Summary
Lee and Pyun (2009) find that both bilateral and multilateral trade reduces military disputes between neighboring and distant countries respectively. Their findings coincide with the conventional wisdom that trade promotes peace however they made no attempt to discuss the impact of regional economic integration to military conflict. Thus in this paper, we argue that although regional economic integration deters conflict within the region, it does not do so with respect to countries outside the region since it decreases the opportunity cost of bilateral war with countries outside the region. We use dyadic conflict data from the Correlates of War project as our dependent variable and utilize three methodologies namely multinational logit, ordinal logit and binominal logit analysis involving panel data to determine whether regional economic integration and some added variables increase the probability of interstate military conflict.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU16066
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
90 leaves 28 cm.
Keywords
International economic integration
Recommended Citation
Benito, K. T., Chuacokiong, J. W., Jimenez, G. S., & Lim, R. R. (2010). Investigating the impact of regional economic integration on Interstate Military Conflicts: Evidence from 1980-2000 Military Interstate Dispute Data. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14731