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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Výsledek na webu

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50206 - Finance

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Defense and Security Analysis

ISSN

1475-1798

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

37

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

164-176

Kód UT WoS článku

000650558500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85106230922