Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense

IF 2.2 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Security Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-20 DOI:10.1080/09636412.2021.2023625

A. Calcara, Luis Simón

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Abstract There is an intense debate in international relations scholarship on whether the benefits accrued by arms production globalization outweigh the risks of depending on foreign suppliers. Europe is an interesting case: although regional protection could help Europeans mitigate exposure to global actors, the prospect of regional integration generates concerns about autonomy within Europe itself. We depict European defense cooperation as a “two-level playing field,” whereby market size informs a country’s hedging between global-external and European-internal competitors. First tiers push for defense market integration because they expect to be strengthened vis-à-vis global players but also because market size gives them a competitive advantage over fellow Europeans. Second tiers resist market integration, as they worry it might lead to first-tier dominance. To probe our hypotheses, we examine the behavior of two first tiers (France and Germany) and two second tiers (Poland and Sweden) in the context of the European Defense Fund.

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市场规模与欧洲防务的政治经济学

摘要国际关系学术界对武器生产全球化带来的好处是否大于依赖外国供应商的风险展开了激烈的辩论。欧洲是一个有趣的例子：尽管区域保护可以帮助欧洲人减少与全球行为者的接触，但区域一体化的前景引发了人们对欧洲内部自治的担忧。我们将欧洲防务合作描述为一个“两级竞争环境”，市场规模决定了一个国家在全球外部和欧洲内部竞争对手之间的对冲。第一梯队推动国防市场一体化，因为他们希望与全球参与者相比得到加强，但也因为市场规模使他们相对于欧洲同行具有竞争优势。第二层抵制市场整合，因为他们担心这可能会导致第一层的主导地位。为了探究我们的假设，我们在欧洲国防基金的背景下研究了两个第一层次（法国和德国）和两个第二层次（波兰和瑞典）的行为。

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Security Studies INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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2.70

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16.70%

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