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Estimating the value of overseas security commitments /

"Since the 1940s, U.S. international leadership has been justified, in part, by claims of a positive relationship between global stability and domestic prosperity. However, the economic returns from U.S. overseas security commitments have proved extraordinarily difficult to measure. Some policy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Egel, Daniel (Author), Grissom, Adam (Author), Godges, John (Author), Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981- (Author), Shatz, Howard J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2016]
Subjects:
Economic impact analysis > United States.
United States > Armed Forces > Foreign countries.
United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures.
United States > Commerce.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Measuring U.S. external security commitments
  • Empirical approach and identification
  • U.S. bilateral trade
  • Global bilateral trade
  • Global stability
  • Trade costs
  • Estimated effects of a 50-percent reduction in external security commitments
  • Conclusion.