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100			_aCHRISTIE Edward Hunter
245			_aDemand for military expenditures and security alignment choices in the Indo-Pacific/ _cEdward Hunter Christie, Caroline Buts, Cind Du Bois
260			_c2023
520			_aWe explore the possibilities and limitations of models of the demand for military expenditures, as against additional kinds of cross-country analyses, with an empirical focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Our research bridges a gap between the Defence Economics and International Relations literatures by developing testable security alignment hypotheses and by testing these hypotheses in three ways: with demand modelling on total expenditures, with analyses on estimated stocks of imported armaments, and with qualitative analyses of trends in defence cooperation between states. We find consistent evidence across research methods of an increase in threat perceptions towards China since around 2012 and of balancing behaviour by US allies and by two non-allies. As compared to standard demand modelling, our hypothesis-based mixed methods approach allows for a clearer treatment of samples with mixed and shifting security alignments and of states that stabilise or reduce expenditures in the face of rising threat perceptions.
598			_aMILITARY EXPENDITURES, ARMS TRADE, STRUCTURAL BREAK, SECURITY ALIGNMENT, POWER TRANSITION, INDO-PACIFIC, NEWARTICLS
650			_aMILITARY EXPENDITURES
650			_aARMS TRADE
650			_aSTRUCTURAL BREAK
650			_a SECURITY ALIGNMENT
650			_a POWER TRANSITION
650			_aINDO-PACIFIC
700			_a BUTS Caroline
700			_aDU BOIS Cind
773			_gDefence and Peace Economics, Volume 34, Number 5, August 2023, pg. 581-602
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2022.2073430 _zClick here for full text
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