Impact of Domestic and Transboundary Conflicts on Militarization
Hafiz Syed Mohsin Abbasa✉, Xiaodong Xub, Chunxia Sunc, Saif Ullahd, Muhammad Ahsan Ali Razae
- aCollege of Public Administration , University: Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) Main Campus , Wuhan , P.R. China
- bProfessor and Dean of College Public Administration and also Professor in School of Education &, Institute of Governance & University Vice President and key Position in Ministry of Education in P.R. China . Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST Main Campus) , Wuhan P.R. China
- cAssociate Professor in College of Public Administration , Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) Main Campus , Wuhan , P.R. China
- dPhD Scholar in Management Sciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology , Karachi Pakistan
- ePh.D. Scholar, School of Economics and Management , University: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) , Beijing , P.R. China
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
Abstract Security issues are the global concern nowadays, which triggers government spending on military equipment and supply chain. This paper analyzes the global perspective of cohesion indicators on Militarization by using 177 countries panel data from the Years 2011-2018 based on middle/lower and high-income groups. By applied OLS and Fixed Effect modelling, we explored the idea that Group Grievance and Population Growth Rate have a significant impact on Militarization in both income groups worldwide. However, middle/lower income group’s Militarization is more fragile than high-income groups due to state cohesion. It further analyses that Security Apparatus and Fractionalization Elite are significant in Middle/ lower-income countries and have an insignificant impact on Militarization in high-income countries. In the end, the study suggested that the United Nations must keenly observe the militarization trends of the less fragile states by considering global peace concerns and should play its role to resolve the bilateral conflicts in the region to maintain world peace environment.