Preparation for Peace

Essay # 59566

International Relations
International Relations > Arms Control
Political Science

The identification of global correlations to national defense expenditures.

2,323 words () | 13 sources | MLA | 2002 United States

Paper Summary:

The scope of this paper is to identify ten individual independent variables, such as economic or industrial growth and to test their significance in the prediction of variance in the percent defense expenditure within individual nations throughout the international community, through correlation to the dependent variable Percent GDP Army.

Outline
Introduction
Statistical Analysis of Variable Correlations
Hypotheses and Findings
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"An individual nation's defense expenditures can be clearly correlated to a variety of domestic and international factors. The importance of discovering such correlations has been clearly evidenced through the repetitive events of global history. In the event the international community becomes able to accurately monitor and predict defense expenditures by individual nations in a timely and efficient manner, future conflicts, humanitarian crises, and global economic depressions may be effectively identified prior to occurrence and effectively circumvented."