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Description & Citation--Study No. 5908

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:5908
 
Title:War-Peace Module
 
Principal Investigator(s):Jeffery Krend
 
Funding Agency:Northwestern University. NU/ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency.
 
Grant Number:S.D. 260
 
Bibliographic Citation:Krend, Jeffery. WAR-PEACE MODULE [Computer file]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University [producer], 197?. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 197?.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study contains a user-oriented computer module that focuses on 1,951 situations, decisions, and events relative to seven issue areas that emerged from the interactions of ten nations: China, Egypt, France, West Germany, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Israel, Syria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The module was developed to explicate a number of propositions about war and peace between nations and to combine these propositions into an operating model of an international relations system. It is intended to serve as a technical companion to and provide supplementary flow charts and program listings for the War-Peace module developed in Jeffrey A. Krend's "War and Peace in the International System: Deriving an All-Computer Heuristic." Actors were assessed for their response to perceived threats in either a cooperative or hostile manner relative to each issue in seven key issue areas: German reunification, Israeli survival, Soviet leadership in the communist world, military support for Egypt, national survival and development, international cooperation, and big power hegemony. In addition, the technical aspects of the model were generalized into design criteria for simulations of large-scale social systems in general.
 
Subject Term(s):computer programs, computer simulation, instructional materials, international affairs, international conflict, international relations, peace, war
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Data Type:machine-readable text, and program source code
 

Methodology

Sample:A total of 1,951 situations, decisions, and events among ten nations: China, Egypt, France, West Germany, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Israel, Syria, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
 
Data Source:Krend, Jeffrey A. WAR AND PEACE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM: DERIVING AN ALL-COMPUTER HEURISTIC. Proceedings of the 1972 Summer Simulation Conference. San Diego, CA: June 14-16, 1972.
 

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:1984-05-04
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: EBCDIC Mode
  • DS2: BCD Mode
 

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