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

Print

Accession Number

TU16066

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

90 leaves 28 cm.

Keywords

International economic integration

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