M. Bogers

Ministry of Defense, Netherlands

This study argues that burden sharing entails more than defense spending only, covering military capabilities, contributions to missions and soft power issues as well. In this respect, the study broadens the burden sharing debate amongst security organizations from a one-sided input approach concerning the military to a more comprehensive view on s...

De verdere ontwikkeling van Europees Defensie Beleid en de totstandkoming van een Europese Defensie Unie gaat gepaard met interessante economische vraagstukken. Eén van deze vraagstukken is het burden sharing- en freeriding-gedrag van de EU25, de 25 EU lidstaten die betrokken zijn bij de in 2017 opgerichte Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)....

Using a four-level dashboard, this chapter offers a quantitative and a qualitative analysis of the effectiveness of an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia. The chapter elaborates on the question as to how political, security and economic motives have impacted the (un)willingness of major arms selling states to join the arms embargo against Saudi Arab...

De vergelijking van tien onderzoeksrapporten naar integriteit die in dertien jaar bij Defensie zijn verschenen legt een zichzelf repeterend patroon in dat onderzoek en daarop gestoeld beleid bloot. Het lijkt het alsof iedere onderzoekscommissie, soms met een iets andere invalshoek, steeds weer opnieuw begint. Het lukt Defensie klaarblijkelijk niet...

This paper provides both a quantitative and a qualitative review and interpretation of 153 journal papers on NATO burden sharing behaviour published over the period 1966-2020. Based on our findings, we distinguish three paradigms, reflecting the main questions and views within their particular realm of burden sharing research. Subsequently, these t...

In absolute terms, the United States of America (US), by far, spends most on defence and is considered the world’s leading military power. Because of today’s diverging safety and security issues, in addition to the military dimension, nations find themselves challenged to come up with answers to cope with climate change, poverty, irregular migratio...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and test predictors for countries to comply with the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) anti-money laundering and terrorist financing recommendations. Design/methodology/approach The authors conduct a quantitative study to explore which factors predict compliance of countries. They include the com...

Across the world, the perceived common ground regarding global safety and security is changing. Facing divergent threats, in addition to their cooperation on defense states will increasingly need to collaborate on additional dimensions to protect their citizens. Hence, next to the military burden-sharing debate, questions as to whether states are c...

This paper contributes to the literature concerning burden sharing in specific crisis response operations. We provide a quantitative expression of burden-sharing behaviour of the NATO and Non-NATO allies during the International Security Assistance Forces operations in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010. We conclude that the military contribution of the...

This paper contributes to the literature concerning burden sharing. We provide a quantitative expression of the burden sharing behaviour of 174 states in the case of combating terrorist financing and address specific burden sharing issues in this context (i.e., weakest link; no substitutability). We conclude that advanced states have shown more eff...

The degree of collectiveness aimed for in European defence policy raises issues such as burden sharing and relative performance measurement of the European Armed Forces (EAF). This paper compares EAF performance rates on three dimensions: input, throughput and output. In order to express performance, over the period of 1995–2008, differing measures...

In vrijwel alle Europese landen zijn de defensie-uitgaven de afgelopen decennia gedaald. Maar financiële input (personeel, materieel, investeringen) is slechts één manier om zicht te krijgen op de prestaties van een krijgsmacht. Om een goed beeld te krijgen is het nodig de verschillende maatstaven in samenhang te bezien. Het gaat dan bijvoorbeeld o...