POLS 2880 Lecture 6: Week 6

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2880
• Professor: Dr.Andrew Richter

Document Summary

Overview: all countries spend on military, and have a military, except for costa. All the neighboring states of russia, have military for defense agai(cid:374)st russia. K(cid:374)o(cid:449) they (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)eat russia, (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374) make them think about it before attacking. Look at numbers spending in $ and gdp: problem western countries are accountable, and have to tell how much is spent on military, non-western countries give a number, but is not real, they are not accountable. Defense expenditure: idea is defense spending is bad and mostly unnecessary, especially when states are not facing a direct attack, not productive money would be better spent on other things. % of gdp: us 3. 5, saudi arabia 10% Why so little: 1% of gdp is very low, do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a lot of (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey to spe(cid:374)d. Defense spending 1970: been close to 1% for about 25-30 years, at historical low post-war period, steadily declining over a long period of time.