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NATO's two percent illusion: Germany needs to encourage greater efficiency within the alliance

In order to plug the gaps in NATO's defence capabilities, Europeans - and Germans especially - need to increase defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product (GDP). The United States especially has been insistent on compliance with this target, which was set in 2002. But this benchmark has long been known to be an illusion, one many European NATO member states are neither willing nor able to implement. In any case, the 2% benchmark focuses on expenditures rather than improved outcomes. The federal government should develop its own concept of how NATO can apply its financial resources more efficiently - and it could use output criteria and specific contributions to convey its concept. (author's abstract)

NATO's two percent illusion: Germany needs to encourage greater efficiency within the alliance

Urheber*in: Mölling, Christian

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Alternative title
Die Zwei-Prozent-Illusion der Nato: Deutschland sollte das Bündnis zu mehr Effizienz anregen
ISSN
1861-1761
Extent
Seite(n): 4
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
SWP Comment (36/2014)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Investition
NATO
Effizienz
Ausgaben
Verteidigungspolitik
Rüstung
Militär
Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Mölling, Christian
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
(where)
Deutschland, Berlin
(when)
2014

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-398391
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Object type

  • Stellungnahme

Associated

  • Mölling, Christian
  • Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit

Time of origin

  • 2014

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