Does International Trade Reduce Political Disputes?

Hailay Gebretinsae Beyene

Foreign Trade Review, 2015, vol. 50, issue 2, 99-117

Abstract: The effect of economic integration and other factors on interstate conflict has been examined with a delimited geographical scope. A logistic regression analysis is adopted with one-year lagged independent variables regressed on dependent variable of interstate conflict. It is revealed that the pacification effect of economic openness and economic dependence on trade of the East African countries—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda—is significant. In addition, it is found that an improvement in the democratic situation of the dyads reduces the likelihood of eruption of interstate conflict in the region. The article has uncovered that higher national capability asymmetry in East African region among the specified countries leads to an increase in the possibility of violence.

Keywords: Democratic situation; economic openness; interstate conflict; national capability; trade dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 F01 F14 F51 F59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0015732515572058

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