Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations, 1955-1960 (ICPSR 5021)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

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

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05021.v2

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Project Description

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.

Citation

Rummel, Rudolph J., and Tanter, Raymond. Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations, 1955-1960. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05021.v2

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Funding

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

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

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1955 -- 1960

Methodology

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 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

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-05-03 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.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.