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Country Survey Xx: Defence Spending And Peacekeeping In Uruguay

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  • Amilcar Andres Pelaez

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Uruguay is a country with a very unusual profile, since it has just 3.4 million inhabitants but is among the top ten troop contributors to the UN PKO (Peace Keeping Operations) and is the first contributor per capita. In 2002 and 2003 it was the seventh troop contributor to the UN, and by the end of 2005 it was eighth in the UN ranking. Uruguay has never had any imminent external threat to its security after its independence in 1828, and it has had no internal threat since the end of the urban guerrillas' actions in the 1970s. The country has no defence industry, and has always had an all-volunteer military service, which presently involves almost 1% of the total population, and about 2% of the labour force. The empirical evidence presented in this paper shows that, in the past decades, Uruguayan defence spending has been influenced mainly by internal factors, most of them of an economic nature. The high participation in PKO has not increased military expenditure and it has produced a positive impact on the country's economy.

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  • Amilcar Andres Pelaez, 2007. "Country Survey Xx: Defence Spending And Peacekeeping In Uruguay," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(3), pages 281-302.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:18:y:2007:i:3:p:281-302
    DOI: 10.1080/10242690600924679
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