To free or not to free (ride): a comparative analysis of the NATO burden-sharing in the Czech Republic and Lithuania – another insight into the issues of military performance in the Central and Eastern Europe

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2021.1919345" target="_blank" >10.1080/14751798.2021.1919345</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
To free or not to free (ride): a comparative analysis of the NATO burden-sharing in the Czech Republic and Lithuania – another insight into the issues of military performance in the Central and Eastern Europe
Original language description
In this paper we argue that free riding within NATO should be assessed from a microeconomic point of view rather than from a macroeconomic one. In particular, nations with a communist background should be appraised in a much broader perspective than the 2 percent GDP spending target, or number of soldiers on deployment. In comparison with post-Soviet countries such as Lithuania, wealthy post-communist country such as the Czech Republic where defence institution experienced an extensive militarisation of society and economy in the Soviet style, continues to fail in reducing their military-administrative complexes, as well as maintaining an excessive structure of militarised civilian activities. These can comprise, for example, sport clubs, folkloric choirs, medical and educational facilities, established in communism for purpose of military achieving autonomy from civil society. Hence, increasing defence spending to 2 percent of GDP can have the effect of strengthening this structure when weak defence institutions are not able to manage their entire defence budget to achieve military modernisation, as has happened in the Czech Republic.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50206 - Finance

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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