Free-Riding Problem in Alliance

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3849/2336-2995.25.2016.05.049-060" target="_blank" >10.3849/2336-2995.25.2016.05.049-060</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Free-Riding Problem in Alliance

Original language description

The current security situation in Europe and Russia's activities in the east of Ukraine lead the Alliance back to its roots, i.e. the ability to defend the Allies against military threat. Low probability of a direct military assault on the Alliance territory after the end of the Cold War era made the allied countries' governments reduce the investments in their own security, which can be seen in the behaviour called free-riding. From the long term point of view, only a small group of the NATO countries fulfil the recommended values of allocating minimum 2% of GDP to defence. Nevertheless, 18 NATO countries followed the NATO Summit conclusions to stop this trend of reducing military expenditures. In 2015 these countries agreed to increase military expenditures, which represents a responsible approach toward both their own and collective security. Not respecting and ignoring the requirement to increase military expenditures would lead to further increasing the differences among the Alliance countries, as well as between the Alliance and some non-member countries which significantly increase their military expenditures and thus become more powerful with the potential to influence both regional and global events. The policy of the long-term reduction of military expenditures of some Alliance member countries would be a significant security threat of a continuous internal character, however, resolvable by responsible policy toward both own and collective security.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vojenské rozhledy. (Czech Military Review.)

ISSN

1210-3292

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

57

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

50-61

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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