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ID191916
Title ProperFree Riding, Network Effects, and Burden Sharing in Defense Cooperation Networks
LanguageENG
AuthorKinne, Brandon J ;  Kang, Stephanie N.
Summary / Abstract (Note)How do states distribute the burdens of collective defense? This paper develops a network theory of burden sharing. We focus on bilateral defense cooperation agreements (DCAs), which promote cooperation in a variety of defense, military, and security issue areas. Using a computational model, we show that DCA partners’ defense spending depends on the network structure of their agreements. In bilateral terms, DCAs increase defense spending by committing states to defense activities and allowing partners to reciprocally punish free riding. However, as a state's local network of defense partnerships grows more densely connected, with many transitive “friend of a friend” relations, DCAs have the countervailing effect of reducing defense spending. The more deeply integrated states are in bilateral defense networks, the less they spend on defense. We distinguish two potential mechanisms behind this effect—one based on efficiency improvements, the other on free riding. An empirical analysis using multilevel inferential network models points more to efficiency than to free riding. Defense networks reduce defense spending, and they do so by allowing countries to produce security more efficiently.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Organization Vol. 77, No.2; Spring 2023: p.405 - 439
Journal SourceInternational Organization Vol: 77 No 2
Key WordsNetwork Analysis ;  Burden Sharing ;  Free Riding ;  Policy Convergence ;  Defense Cooperation ;  network efficiency ;  network-behavior coevolution ;  stochastic actor-oriented model


 
 
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