Budgeted Signaling: Rethinking Post-Cold War EU Member States’ Defense Spending and Militarization Haoyan Wang

• In Event: Governance and Power Between States

Brief Overview

This paper examines current debates and explores three hypotheses in why European states spend on defense. I constructed an original dataset to test each hypothesis, and I find that European states defense spending is about signaling credibility.

Author

• Haoyan Wang, University of Chicago