The Pernicious Consequences of UN Security Council Membership

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, NY, USA
Alastair Smith: Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, NY, USA, Alastair.Smith@nyu.edu

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2010, vol. 54, issue 5, 667-686

Abstract: Nations elected to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as temporary members have lower levels of economic growth, become less democratic, and experience more restrictions on press freedoms than comparable nations not elected to the UNSC. Using regression and matching techniques the authors show, for instance, that over the two-year period of UNSC membership and the following two years during which a nation is ineligible for reelection, UNSC nations experience a 3.5 percent contraction in their economy relative to nations not elected to the UNSC. The detrimental effects of UNSC membership are strongest in nondemocratic nations. The authors contrast these results with the growing evidence that nations elected to the UNSC receive greater development assistance.

Keywords: International Organizations; United Nations Security Council; economic growth; foreign aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002710371670

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