Examinando por Autor "Sosa, Santiago"

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    The Determinants of UN Interventions. Are There Regional Preferences?
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2013-04-14) Duque, Juan C.; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago
    What leads the United Nations Security Council to intervene in one conflict, but remain inactive in others of similar magnitude and cruelty? This paper analyzes all registered 178 internal and internationalized internal conflicts since 1945, with the goal to unveil what determines the probability of a UN intervention. Our main focus lies on the question whether the geographical proximity to the ve permanent members of the UN Security Council (China,France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) has an e ect on the probability of intervention. Our results suggest that the UN is substantially more likely to intervene in conflicts located in Europe. A more detailed look at distances revels that for every 1,000 kilometers of distance from France or the United Kingdom the probability of intervention decreases by about one third. Further, we nd that UN intervention is signi cantly more likely to happen in smaller (less population), poorer (smaller GDP per capita), and less open economies (openness to international trade).
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    UN interventions: The role of geography
    (SPRINGER, 2015-03-01) Duque, Juan C.; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Economía y Finanzas; Research in Spatial Economics (RISE)
    This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three permanent Western UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative explanations for the distance finding, such as differences by continent, colonial origin, bilateral trade relationships, foreign aid flows, political regime forms, or the characteristics of the Cold War. We do not observe this geographical bias for non-military interventions, providing evidence that practical considerations could be important factors for UNSC decisions to intervene militarily. In fact, UNSC interventions are also more likely in smaller and poorer countries - both of which are indications of less costly interventions and higher chances of success, everything else equal.