Measuring the Burden of Alliance Activities

Abstract

It may be legitimate to expand the definition of an alliance activity to include such categories as the economic aid provided to both members and nonmembers. The aid provided by an alliance member may have a humanitarian component that is much like a pure-public good, but it also may serve to promote domestic export markets. The aid, therefore, has a private-public structure that needs to be accounted for when analyzing relative contributions. We suggest a new measure of burden in the alliance context. This measure equals that part of a member's contribution that spills over to other members' divided by the member's full income. Full income is defined as the sum of national income plus that part of other members' contributions that spill over to the nation in question.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA257991

Entities

People

  • Gregory G. Hildebrandt

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alliances
  • Coefficients
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Cooperative Games
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deterrence
  • Economic Models
  • Economics
  • Equations
  • Game Theory
  • National Security
  • Recreation
  • Social Welfare
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • United States

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  • Economics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • International Relations and European Studies