2015/06/11 by Khusrav Gaibulloev, Justin George, Todd Sandler +1 · 100 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Computer security #Demography #Econometrics #Economics #Endogeneity #Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth #International Development and Aid #Law #Microeconomics #Peacekeeping #Political science #Population #Sociology #Spatial and Panel Data Analysis #Spillover effect
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/0022343315579245
published in Journal of Peace Research 52(6), 727-742 (SAGE Publishing)
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Abstract Based on spatial panel regressions for 1990–2012, this article draws publicness differences between peacekeeping personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping operations. The analysis shows that UN missions are much less responsive to personnel spillovers, derived from other contributors’ peacekeepers, than is the case of non-UN missions. UN peacekeeping missions display either no response or free riding to these personnel spillovers, while non-UN missions indicate spillover complementarity. Moreover, a number of controls distinguish the two kinds of peacekeeping, where non-UN missions display income normality and UN missions’ deployments increase with the number of concurrent peacekeeping missions. The latter suggests that some countries specialize in supplying UN peacekeepers as a money-making venture. The positive response to the population variable supports this conjecture for UN missions, because a greater population base provides the recruits for peacekeeping operations. Our spatial empirical analysis accounts for the endogeneity of peacekeeper spillovers. The article concludes with a host of robustness tests that account for the alternative classes of peacekeepers, African Union and ECOWAS missions, and other empirical variants.