title: National defense, economic growth and the role of political institutions
abstract: Union during the 1980s, world defense spending remarkably decreased after the Cold War until the late 1990s.The terrorist attacks of 9/11 unveiled new security threats through international terrorism and both the Georgia war in 2008 and the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March 2014 unveiled Russia's striving for being perceived as a world power.The US campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq starting 2001 and 2003 considerably increased the US defense budget while the defense budget of European
journal: Electronic Theses of LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)