Dr. Yuval Weber, a Bush School faculty member at the DC teaching site and CGS affiliate, coauthored “Hierarchy of Membership and Burden Sharing in a Military Alliance” with Shlomo Weber and Hans Wiesmeth in Defence and Peace Economics.
The article examines and analyzes a military alliance with members of different economic and historical backgrounds that finance the production of the “alliance good” through their contributions. The authors then apply their findings to NATO to evaluate burden sharing across the alliance and the optimal fit between the data and an appropriate choice of the alliance’s hierarchical structure.
