order to validate the membership

In order to validate the membership of the various blocs that emerge from analysing UN voting patterns, an econometric model was used to estimate the elasticities of each country’s Elcano Index score relative to the variables chosen in order to assess its economic prowess, its openness to the outside and its military and soft power. The groupings that emerge from the analysis of UN voting patterns have been validated using clustering techniques, given that the correlation between the two hierarchies is virtually 100%. The three clusters that have been detected are shown in Figure 3. The horizontal axis represents สล็อต