NATO AS AN EXTERNAL DRIVER OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES

Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert

Defence and Peace Economics, 2011, vol. 22, issue 3, 279-297

Abstract: So far, economic analyses of NATO enlargement have been restricted to aspects of regional security while political analyses focused on indirect peace-building effects on democracy in the first place. Our panel regressions for 25 post-communist countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 reveal that direct incentives provided by NATO pre-accession are important for broad-based institutional development. Results are even more robust than for variables measuring EU pre-accession or NATO membership effects. This supports the argument that NATO can act as a transformative power and should strengthen its political agenda.

Keywords: NATO; Transition economies; Institutional change; Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2010.532941

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