Are Means Determinative: An Examination of the Influence of Relative Economic and Military Strength on Grand Strategy Choice
Journal: IRL - University of Missouri, St. Louis (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
Year: 2017

This study will use three types of multivariate regression analysis to examine the relationship between Grand Strategy Choice and Relative Military and Economic Power. Understanding the effects of the relative distribution of available means on a nation’s choice of grand strategy is important, because if they are significant, it may be possible to predict the behavior of great powers, based on an examination of their available means. The first model uses a robust logit analysis to look at the ef