Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement

This awareness has been sustained elsewhere. Using an agent model, Jung and Lake show that network connections allow agents to gather valuable information about potential partners and increase the likelihood of collaboration; But as soon as cooperation takes place, these links no longer provide new information and their influence evaporates. Footnote 107 Fafchamps, Leij and Goyal note that network connections favour the first co-authors among economists, but have no influence on subsequent collaborations. Footnote 108 When network entries depend on an information mechanism, these influences should have the most influence on i`s first DCA and j and weaken them for the following DCAs. On the other hand, if the influence of networks depends on other mechanisms such as articulated gains, they should be maintained after the first DCA. For example, if partnerships with high-level nodes are simply more useful – z.B because these nodes have benefited from the benefits of countless defence relationships – the attractiveness of a high level as a defence partner should undermine not only the first agreement with J, but also subsequent agreements; rational i will try to use the common benefits, no matter when the agreements are signed. The following section details this logic and the proposed placebo test. For the time being, I assume that if no agreement is reached between the Spanish Ministry of Defence and the United States Armed Forces within thirty days of the start of consultations, the matter will be referred to the Standing Committee in an attempt to reach a satisfactory agreement for both parties. If such an agreement is reached, the redundancies are made, if necessary, in accordance with the provisions of the previous paragraph. The Standing Committee is composed of two sections, Spain and the United States, chaired by representatives of the respective defence ministries, and includes the Vice-President, appointed respectively by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S.

State Department. Its organization and operation are designed to effectively and quickly address the problems that arise and to promote defence cooperation in the areas within its jurisdiction to which this agreement relates. 3. At the initiative of the Spanish authorities, consultations are being conducted with the United States authorities to identify the possibility of Spanish participation in the exploitation of other ASDs.