Dimensionality of Nations Project: Dyadic Foreign Conflict Variables, 1950-1965 (ICPSR 5408)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Rudolph J. Rummel

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05408.v1

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Summary

This study contains data on conflict behavior among a selected sample of 1,557 nation dyads in the years 1950, 1955, 1960, 1963, and 1965. Originally collected by the Dimensionality of Nations (DON) Project at the University of Hawaii, these data provide information on the behavioral dimensions of the interactions between the nations in the dyads. The dyads represent all of the paired relationships for 113 nations. The conflict variables are coded for actor and target, date of conflict, and frequencies of occurrence. The violent action variable is coded only for the presence or absence of violent conflicts. Conflictual interactions are described through variables such as warning or defensive acts, number of wars, negative behavior, severance or suspension of diplomatic relations, expulsion or recall of diplomats, boycott of another country or embargo on commerce with another country, aid to subversive or rebellious groups of another country, negative communication, accusations, protests, unofficial acts of violence, and attacks on embassy of one nation by the other. Included also is one record each year for all non-conflict dyads. The variables are arranged by year, within year by actor and within actor by target.

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Rummel, Rudolph J. Dimensionality of Nations Project:  Dyadic Foreign Conflict Variables, 1950-1965. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05408.v1

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Geographic Coverage

Benin   Angola   Cambodia   Sudan   Paraguay   Portugal   Syria   North Korea   Greece   Morocco   Iran   Mali   Panama   Guatemala   Czechoslovakia   Iraq   Chile   Laos   Nepal   Argentina   Tanzania   Ghana   India   Canada   Maldives   Turkey   Belgium   Taiwan   Finland   Trinidad and Tobago   Central African Republic   Jamaica   Peru   Germany   Yemen   Vietnam (Socialist Republic)   United States   Guinea   China (Peoples Republic)   Somalia   Chad   Madagascar   Ivory Coast   Thailand   Libya   Costa Rica   Sweden   Poland   Jordan   Nigeria   Bulgaria   Tunisia   Sri Lanka   Uruguay   United Kingdom   Switzerland   Spain   Lebanon   Cuba   Liberia   Venezuela   Mauritania   Burkina Faso   Israel   Australia   Soviet Union   Cameroon   Malaysia   Global   Gabon   South Korea   Yugoslavia   El Salvador   Brazil   Algeria   Colombia   Ecuador   Hungary   Japan   Albania   New Zealand   Senegal   Italy   Honduras   Ethiopia   Haiti   Afghanistan   Burundi   Egypt   Sierra Leone   Bolivia   Saudi Arabia   Netherlands   Pakistan   Gambia   Ireland   France   Romania   Togo   Niger   Philippines   Rwanda   Burma   Nicaragua   Barbados   Norway   Democratic Republic of Congo   Dominican Republic   Denmark   Mexico   Uganda   Indonesia

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1950 -- 1965

Data Collection Notes

  1. See also the related data collections, DIMENSIONALITY OF NATIONS PROJECT: NATION ATTRIBUTE DATA, 1950-1965 (ICPSR 5020), and DIMENSIONALITY OF NATIONS PROJECT: ATTRIBUTES OF NATIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF NATION DYADS, 1950-1965 (ICPSR 5409).

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Conflict behavior of 113 nations in the period 1950-1965.

Data Source

(1) United Nations publications, (2) University of Hawaii. Department of Political Science. "The Dimensionality of Nations Project." RESEARCH REPORT 65, and (3) 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.

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Rummel, Rudolph J. Dimensionality of Nations Project: Dyadic Foreign Conflict Variables, 1950-1965. ICPSR05408-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1976. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05408.v1
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