IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ris/integr/0631.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Military Alliances and Reality of Regional Integration: Japan, South Korea, the US vs. China, North Korea

Author

Listed:
  • Goo, Young-Wan

    (Department of Economics, Chungbuk National University)

  • Lee, Seong-Hoon

    (Department of Economics, Cheongju University)

Abstract

East Asian military security is of overarching importance in the economic integration and prosperity in this region. This study analyzes how South Korea and Japan consider the U.S. as a military ally in the context of the China–North Korea alliance by using the iterative Seemingly Unrelated Regression(SUR) method in estimating defense goods demand functions. The findings are that Japan considered the U.S. to be a closer ally than the U.S. did during 2000~2005 and South Korea may regard the U.S. as a closer ally than vice versa. The U.S. regards Japan as a closer ally than Korea. South Korea’s demand for defense goods has not been increased by the threat from the China–North Korea alliance but American and Japanese demand has recently been increased by the threat, implying that South Korea has not regarded the China–North Korea alliance as a significant threat whereas that Japan and the U.S. have recognized the military alliance as a serious one.

Suggested Citation

  • Goo, Young-Wan & Lee, Seong-Hoon, 2014. "Military Alliances and Reality of Regional Integration: Japan, South Korea, the US vs. China, North Korea," Journal of Economic Integration, Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University, vol. 29, pages 329-342.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:integr:0631
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://sejong.metapress.com/
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mark Abdollahian & Kyungkook Kang, 2008. "In Search of Structure: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Power Transitions," International Interactions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(4), pages 333-357, December.
    2. Todd Sandler, 1977. "Impurity Of Defense: An Application To The Economics Of Alliances," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(3), pages 443-460, August.
    3. Conybeare, John A. C. & Sandler, Todd, 1990. "The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance 1880–1914: A Collective Goods Approach," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 84(4), pages 1197-1206, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Young‐Wan Goo & Seung‐Nyeon Kim, 2012. "Time-Varying Characteristics Of South Korea-United States And Japan-United States Military Alliances Under Chinese Threat: A Public Good Approach," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(1), pages 95-106, February.
    2. Alejandro Quiroz Flores, 2011. "Alliances as Contiguity in Spatial Models of Military Expenditures," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 28(4), pages 402-418, September.
    3. Thomas Plümper & Eric Neumayer, 2015. "Free-riding in alliances: Testing an old theory with a new method," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 32(3), pages 247-268, July.
    4. Todd Sandler, 2024. "Tiebout jurisdictions and clubs," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 73(3), pages 857-872, October.
    5. Andrew Stravers, 2021. "Pork, parties, and priorities: Partisan politics and overseas military deployments," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 38(2), pages 156-177, March.
    6. Davis B. Bobrow & Mark A. Boyer, 1997. "Maintaining System Stability," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 41(6), pages 723-748, December.
    7. repec:spo:wpecon:info:hdl:2441/6901 is not listed on IDEAS
    8. Toshihiro Ihori, 2000. "Defense Expenditures and Allied Cooperation," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 44(6), pages 854-867, December.
    9. repec:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/6901 is not listed on IDEAS
    10. Ghislain Dutheil de la Rochère & Jean-Michel Josselin & Yvon Rocaboy, 2011. "The role of aggregation technologies in the provision of supranational public goods: A reconsideration of NATO’s strategies," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 85-103, March.
    11. Kyle Beardsley & Nigel Lo, 2013. "Democratic Communities and Third-Party Conflict Management," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 30(1), pages 76-93, February.
    12. Todd Sandler, 1993. "The Economic Theory of Alliances," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 37(3), pages 446-483, September.
    13. Shimizu, Hirofumi, 1999. "UN peacekeeping as a public good: analyses of the UN member states' peacekeeping financial contribution behavior," ISU General Staff Papers 1999010108000013434, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    14. Jakub Odehnal & Jiří Neubauer & Aleš Olejníček & Jana Boulaouad & Lenka Brizgalová, 2021. "Empirical Analysis of Military Expenditures in NATO Nations," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-15, July.
    15. David Rietzke & Brian Roberson, 2013. "The robustness of ‘enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend’ alliances," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 40(4), pages 937-956, April.
    16. Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson, 2012. "Coalitional Colonel Blotto Games with Application to the Economics of Alliances," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 14(4), pages 653-676, August.
    17. Prabal Roy Chowdhury, 2006. "Alliances among asymmetric countries," Discussion Papers 06-04, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
    18. Justin George & Todd Sandler, 2021. "EU Demand for Defense, 1990–2019: A Strategic Spatial Approach," Games, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-18, February.
    19. Todd Sandler, 2005. "Nato Benefits, Burdens And Borders: Comment," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 317-321.
    20. Todd Sandler, 1999. "Alliance Formation, Alliance Expansion, and the Core," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 43(6), pages 727-747, December.
    21. George, Justin & Sandler, Todd, 2018. "Demand for military spending in NATO, 1968–2015: A spatial panel approach," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 222-236.
    22. Leonard Dudley & Claude Montmarquette, 1981. "The demand for military expenditures: An international comparison," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 5-31, January.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Military Alliance; Defense Goods; Threat Elasticity; Spill-In Elasticity (SIE); Public Good;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:integr:0631. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Yunhoe Kim (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/desejkr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.