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Review Article

Top-Bottom Hierarchy: An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Overseas Military Investment*

Shlomo Webera Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USACorrespondence[email protected]
ORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7832-2769
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Yuval Weberb Global Security Intelligence Studies, National Intelligence University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Hans Wiesmethc Faculty of Business and Economics, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Received 28 Nov 2023, Accepted 19 Mar 2024, Published online: 02 Apr 2024

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