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        <Title>Metadata record for Reconstruction of Oliver Benson's "Simple Diplomatic Game"</Title>
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            <Title>Reconstruction of Oliver Benson's "Simple Diplomatic Game"</Title>
 				
	    	
				<Creator xmlns="ddi:reusable:3_1" affiliation="Unknown">Krend, Jeffery</Creator>
	    	
	    	<Publisher>Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research</Publisher>
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    			<SimpleDate>2006-01-18</SimpleDate>
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            <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="Summary05907">This data collection contains a revised version of the 
 Simple Diplomatic Game, one of the first all-computer simulations 
 in the international relations field developed by Oliver Benson 
 in 1959. It represents an early attempt to articulate a number of 
 "loose" assumptions about international behavior into a set of 
 computer instructions such that high-speed computing equipment can 
 be used to simulate a variety of international crises situations.
 The earlier computer simulation program is reconstructed in this 
 study for 25 nations in 1965 for the purpose of examining the 
 advantages and disadvantages inherent in these simulations and 
 gauging what might be expected of computer simulation methodology 
 in general. The main data matrix contains nine categories of 
 indicators of natural and technical resources used in computing 
 the war potential of each nation, values for nine indicators of 
 aggressiveness used for computing the propensity-to-act index, a 
 numeric code (0-4) indicating alliance membership, a one or zero 
 indicating the nuclear or non-nuclear status of each country, a 
 tally of losses suffered by each coalition member as a result of 
 an unsuccessful initiative on the part of the coalition leader, a 
 statistic for total exports and imports for each country, degrees 
 of longitude for a major industrial area in each country, and 
 degrees of latitude for these industrial areas. Benson's simulation 
 is reprogrammed in this collection in BASIC computer language for 
 use in an on-line, time-sharing environment. Seven additional 
nations were added and the database for all nations was updated.</div>
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      		<Keyword>computer simulation</Keyword>
      	
      		<Keyword>diplomacy</Keyword>
      	
      		<Keyword>foreign policy</Keyword>
      	
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