1. Weapons for Peace? The Unexpected Benefits of UNSC Membership
Anirudha Vaddadi and Josi Sinagoga
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2. 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
Rudy

3. Background The International Arms Trade Cold War Era Post-Cold War Era
Josi

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Results
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8. Results

9. Results Countries with statistically significant relationships:
Country
UN Regional Group
Austria
Western European and Others
Bangladesh
Asia-Pacific
Brazil
Latin American and Caribbean
Hungary
Eastern European
Ireland
South Africa
African
South Korea
Rudy

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