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Burdensharing and Its Discontents: Understanding and Optimizing Allied Contributions to the Collective Defense

7 May 2024

The perennial debate about whether U.S. allies are contributing sufficiently to the collective defense of the post–World War II liberal international order has resurfaced in recent years. In this report, RAND researchers describe the Burdensharing Index that they constructed to aid in measuring and analyzing allied contributions.
international economic relations north atlantic treaty organization global security military budgets and defense spending

Authors

Germanovich, Gene, Welburn, Jonathan W., Smith, Troy D., Mallory, King

Division
International Security and Defense Policy Program RAND National Security Research Division
Pages
152
Published in
United States
RAND Identifier
RR-4189/1-OSD
RAND Type
report
Rights
RAND Corporation
Series
Research Reports
Source
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4189z1.html