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

Published: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
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.

Citation

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

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Benin Angola Cambodia Sudan Paraguay Portugal Syria North Korea Greece Iran Morocco 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 Venezuela Liberia 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 Denmark Dominican Republic Uganda Mexico Indonesia

Time Period(s)

1950 -- 1965

Data Collection Notes

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).

Universe

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.

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

event/transaction data

survey data

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

1992-02-16

Notes

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

  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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