Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations, 1955-1960

Principal Investigator(s): Rummel, Rudolph J.; Tanter, Raymond

Summary:

These data focus on the dimensions of domestic and foreign conflict behavior of nations in the period 1955-1960. The product of two separate studies conducted by Rudolph J. Rummel and Raymond Tanter utilizing identical variables for the time periods 1955-1957 and 1958-1960, respectively, this dataset gauges domestic conflict behavior with measures such as number of assassinations, general strikes, major government crises, purges, riots, anti-government demonstrations, revolutions, domestic violence deaths, and the presence or absence of guerilla warfare. Other variables such as the number of anti-foreign demonstrations, negative sanctions, protests, countries with which diplomatic relations were severed, expulsion or recall of ambassadors, threats, mobilizations, accusations, troop movements, deaths in foreign violence, presence or absence of military action, and war measure foreign conflict behavior.

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Rummel, Rudolph J., and Raymond Tanter. Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations, 1955-1960. ICPSR05021-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05021.v2

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This survey was funded by:

United States Department of Defense. Office of Naval Research (N00014-67-A-0191-0026)
United States Department of Defense. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Subject Terms: aggression, civil disorders, conflict, coup d'etat, internal political conflict, international affairs, international conflict, military intervention, nations, political oppostion, political violence, protest demonstrations, revolutions, riots, violence, war

Geographic Coverage: Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China (Peoples Republic), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Global, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam (Socialist Republic), Yemen, Yugoslavia

Time Period:

1955--1960

Universe: Nations with populations at least 800,000 in the first year of the study that were independent at least two years before the first year of the study.

Data Types: aggregate data

Data Source:

(1) Russett, Bruce M., David J. Singer, and Melvin Small. "National Political Units in the Twentieth Century: A Standardized List." THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 62, 3 (1968), 935-950, (2) THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEX, (3) THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK, (4) FACTS ON FILE, (5) BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR, (6) DEADLINE DATA ON WORLD AFFAIRS, and (7) KEESING'S CONTEMPORARY ARCHIVES

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-05-03

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1973

Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, Zinnes, Dina A., Wilkenfeld, Jonathan . A linkage model of domestic conflict behavior. Conflict Behavior and Linkage Politics. New York: David McKay.

1972

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Terrell, Louis M. Patterns of International Involvement and International Violence. International Studies Quarterly. 16, (2), 167-186.

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Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, Russett, Bruce M. Models for the analysis of foreign conflict behavior of states. Peace, War, and Numbers. Beverly Hills: Sage.

1971

Rummel, Rudolph J., Gillespie, John, Nesvold, Betty . Dimensions of conflict behavior within and between nations. Macro-Quantitative Analysis: Conflict, Development, and Democratization. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.