Research for Political Stability

This study analyzes the relationships between military crisis response operations, political stability and economic stability. The study uses a combination of case studies and cross-country regression analysis to examine whether different regions of the world or countries at different levels of economic development react in different ways to military crisis response operations. We found several differences, depending on the length of the operation. Short operations have a positive effect on political stability for several months after completion of the operation, particularly in Africa and low-income countries, though they do not appear to affect economic stability. Longer operations can affect both political and economic stability over the long term, but the extent of the effect is unclear. This analysis provides quantitative evidence that crisis response operations do affect future political and economic stability. Given the nature of the data, it is difficult to know the exact magnitude of these effects, but it appears that there is some kind of linkage between crisis response operations and political and economic stability.