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Description & Citation--Study No. 5303

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:5303
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05303
 
Title:Conflict Management by International Organizations, 1945-1970
 
Principal Investigator(s):Ernst Haas
 
  Robert Butterworth
 
  Joseph Nye
 
Bibliographic Citation:Haas, Ernst, Robert Butterworth, and Joseph Nye. CONFLICT MANAGEMENT BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, 1945-1970 [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1991. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05303
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study contains data on 146 disputes in different geographical regions of the world that were managed by international or regional organizations in the period 1945-1970. Part of the project on Studies in International Integration of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California (Berkeley), this study was aimed at addressing how much difference international organizations have made in the management of international conflicts. Data are provided for conflicts brought before at least one of the following organizations whose primary concern was conflict management among members: United Nations, Organization of American States, Organization of African Unity, Arab League, and the Council of Europe. For each dispute, data are provided for the name of the conflict, issues at stake, power status of the parties involved, responses of the international organizations involved in managing the dispute, interstate nature of the dispute, duration of hostilities, civil and military fatalities, likelihood of the dispute abating, disappearing, or escalating if the disputing parties were left to themselves by the international organizations, and the likelihood that the United States and the Soviet Union would engage in a major war over the dispute, involving the use of nuclear weapons or massive conventional weapons on several fronts. A summary scale was developed by the investigators to measure the intensity levels of each dispute, and to score the successes of organizational management of the dispute.
 
Subject Term(s):Arab League, armed conflict, conflict resolution, Council of Europe, fatalities, international conflict, international organizations, intervention strategies, mediation, negotiation, Organization of African Unity, Organization of American States, political violence, war
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Time Period:1945 - 1970
 
Universe:A total of 146 disputes in different geographical regions of the world that were managed by international or regional organizations in the period 1945-1970.
 
Data Type:event/transaction data
 

Methodology

Data Source:Cady, Richard, A., and William Prince. POLITICAL CONFLICTS, 1944-1966 (ICPSR 5302).
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-03
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Conflict Management by International Organizations, 1945-1970
 

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