Weapons for Peace? The Unexpected Benefits of UNSC Membership Anirudha Vaddadi and Josi Sinagoga

The Study Research Question: Do countries leverage their political importance for weapons imports? Specifically: Do countries on the United Nations Security Council as rotating members receive more arms imports from Germany? Results: Our analysis finds a robust relationship between UNSC membership and the importation of German arms

Background The International Arms Trade Cold War Era Post-Cold War Era

Background, contd. Why Germany? Position in Arms Market Political System Exclusion from the P5

Methodology Dependent Variable: Heavy arms imports from Germany, measured by Trend Indicator Value (TIV) - general arms imports are also used as a comparison Independent Variable: UNSC Membership - dichotomous indicator Controls: year of election into UNSC, ln(GDP per capita), ln(population), war, political regime, trade with Germany, German colony

Methodology, contd. Country and year fixed-effects Clustered errors Focusing regression analysis on Africa due to its unique UNSC selection process Regressions on individual countries

Results

Countries with statistically significant relationships: CountryUN Regional Group AustriaWestern European and Others BangladeshAsia-Pacific BrazilLatin American and Caribbean HungaryEastern European IrelandWestern European and Others South AfricaAfrican South KoreaAsia-Pacific

Concluding Remarks “Power Resources” Buying Peace with Weapons Future Research?