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Militarization and social development in the Third World

Department of Sociology University of Manitoba

Zachary Zimmer

Population Studies Center University of Michigan

In this study we integrated the modernization and dependency theories of development to suggest the ways whereby militarization can affect development. We examined the effects of three components of militarization highlighted in these theories on the social development of ninety-two developing countries. Overall, our findings support the dependency theory's emphasis on the detrimental impact of international trade on disadvantaged nations. There is a significant negative correlation between arms import and social development. Arms export and indigenous spending are correlated with social development in the expected directions but their beta coefficients are not significant. The diverse ways these three aspects of militarization have been shown to affect social development help to explain some of the conflicting findings in the literature and point to the need to study these variables in their disaggregated form.

Journal of Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1, 64-81 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/144078339503100105


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