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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 5401 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 5401 |
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| Title: | Dyadic Disputes, 1920-1968 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | William Coplin |
| J. Martin Rochester | |
| Funding Agency: | Wayne State University, Syracuse University. International Relations Program, and University of Michigan. Voluntary International Coordination Project. |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Coplin, William, and J. Martin Rochester. DYADIC DISPUTES, 1920-1968 [Computer file]. Conducted by William Coplin and Martin Rochester, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship. ICPSR05401-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This study is an exploration of 121 dyadic disputes that occurred among 71 nations in the period 1920-1968 and were considered in at least one of four major international institutions: the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the League of Nations, and the United Nations (UN). The data were collected to provide systematic and comparative analyses of these four international institutions in the international bargaining process. The two basic units of analysis used in this study are participants (nations) and cases. The participants data are further divided into national attributes of participants and patterns of institutional usage by participants. The case-unit data are divided into case attributes and attributes of the dyadic relationship between the two participants in each case. The Attributes of Participants File (Part 1) contains information on the date of each nation's independence, date when the case was introduced to the institution and how the case was introduced, date when the nation's current regime came to power, type of political systems, stage of nation's economic development, socio-cultural regions, geographical regions, and the degree of the nation's institutional usage. The Participant Usage File (Part 2) includes data on the total number of cases in which the nation participated, jointly submitted the dispute, or was the applicant, and each nation's total weighted index of participation in the four major international institutions. The Dyadic Relationships File (Part 3) includes data on the types of issues involved in each case, hostilities associated with the case, institutions credited with stopping hostilities, collective mediation and conciliation, truce enforcement, relative power capabilities of the disputants, and military and geographical distance between disputants, as well as comparisons of economic stages of development, socio-cultural and geographical regions, and institutional usages between the disputants. |
| Subject Term(s): | conflict, conflict resolution, hostility, International Court of Justice, international organizations, international relations, mediation, nations, Permanent Court of International Justice, United Nations |
| Geographic Coverage: | Global |
| Time Period: | 1920 - 1968 |
| Universe: | A total of 121 dyadic disputes among 71 nations in the Permanent Court of International Justice, the International Court of Justice, the League of Nations, and the United Nations, in the period 1920-1968. |
| Data Type: | event/transaction data, and aggregate data |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | (1) JOURNAL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, 1920-1940 (2) UNITED NATIONS BULLETIN, 1946-1954, (3) UNITED NATIONS REVIEW, 1954-1964, (4) UNITED NATIONS MONTHLY CHRONICLE, 1965-1968, (5) Russett, Bruce M. J. David Singer, and Melvin Small. "National Political Units in the Twentieth Century: A Standardized List." AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 62,3 (1968), 935-950, (6) THE STATESMAN'S YEARBOOK, 1925-1966, (7) Hudson, Manley O. WORLD COURT REPORTS, 1935-1943, (8) INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE REPORTS, 1946-1964, (9) Myers, Denys P. HANDBOOK OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. New York, NY: World Peace Foundation, 1935, (10) Walter, F.P. A HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1960, (11) Wright, Quincy. A STUDY OF WAR. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1965, (12) Wright, Quincy. SYNOPSES OF UNITED NATIONS CASES IN THE FIELD OF PEACE AND SECURITY 1946-1965. New York, NY: Carnegie Endownment for International Peace, 1966, (13) Haas, Ernst B. COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND THE FUTURE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM. Denver, CO: University of Denver, 1968, and (14) Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small. "Formal Alliances: A Quantitative Description." JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH 1 (1966), 1-32. |
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 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 1992-02-16. |
| 2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 4 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads. | |
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