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Weapons for Peace? The Unexpected Benefits of UNSC Membership

Weapons for Peace? The Unexpected Benefits of UNSC Membership. Anirudha Vaddadi and Josi Sinagoga. The Study. Research Question: Do countries leverage their political importance for weapons imports?

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Weapons for Peace? The Unexpected Benefits of UNSC Membership

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  1. Weapons for Peace? The Unexpected Benefits of UNSC Membership Anirudha Vaddadi and Josi Sinagoga

  2. The Study • Research Question:Do countries leverage their political importance for weapons imports? • Specifically: Do countries on the United Nations Security Council as rotating members receive more arms imports from Germany? • Results: Our analysis finds a robust relationship between UNSC membership and the importation of German arms

  3. Background The International Arms Trade • Cold War Era • Post-Cold War Era

  4. Background, contd. Why Germany? • Position in Arms Market • Political System • Exclusion from the P5

  5. Methodology • Dependent Variable: Heavy arms imports from Germany, measured by Trend Indicator Value (TIV) - general arms imports are also used as a comparison • Independent Variable: UNSC Membership - dichotomous indicator • Controls: year of election into UNSC, ln(GDP per capita), ln(population), war, political regime, trade with Germany, German colony

  6. Methodology, contd. • Country and year fixed-effects • Clustered errors • Focusing regression analysis on Africa due to its unique UNSC selection process • Regressions on individual countries

  7. Results

  8. Results

  9. Results Countries with statistically significant relationships:

  10. Concluding Remarks • “Power Resources” • Buying Peace with Weapons • Future Research?

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