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International Crisis Behavior Project, 1918-2004 (ICPSR 9286)
Released/updated on: 2007-12-14
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1917-12-22--2004-12-31
This data collection was produced as part of the International Crisis Behavior Project, a research effort aimed at investigating 20th-century interstate crises and the behavior of states under externally generated stress. To this end, the data describe, over a 86-year period, the sources, processes, and outcomes of all military-security crises involving states. Variables were collected at both the micro/state actor level and the macro/international system level. At the macro level, seven dimensions of crisis were measured: crisis setting, crisis breakpoint-exitpoint, crisis management technique, great power/superpower activity, international organization involvement, crisis outcome, and crisis severity. Additional macro-level variables indicate various aspects of geography, polarity, system level, conflict type, power discrepancy, and involvement by powers. At the state actor level, variables measuring five dimensions of crisis were compiled: crisis trigger, state actor behavior, great power/superpower activity, international organization involvement, and crisis outcome. Additional micro-level variables indicate the role of war in each crisis. Others measure several kinds of state attributes: age, territory, regime characteristics, state capability, state values, and social, economic, and political conditions.
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Initiation of Militarized Disputes Among Great Power Rivals, 1816-1975 (ICPSR 6356)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-12
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1816-01-01--1975-12-31
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between system structure and the initiation of militarized disputes among "Great Power" rivals from 1816 to 1975. The Great Powers during this time period are identified as Great Britain, France, Russia/Soviet Union, Austria-Hungary, Prussia/Germany, Italy, the United States, Japan, and China. In a Great Power rivalry, there are periodic military and diplomatic challenges to the status quo disputed by one or both of the powers. The central hypothesis of this study concerns the interaction between system uncertainty and the risk propensity of national decision-makers. Variables measure dispute initiation, system uncertainty, risk propensity, balance of military capabilities, arms races, preventive motive, power transition, rival's possession of second-strike nuclear capability, rival's past behavior, and current dispute involvement of challenger and rival. Risk attitudes are measured using Kahneman and Tversky Prospect Theory findings. Part 2, Initiation Variables Data, contains the complete set of variables, and Part 1, Initiation Final Equation Data, is a subset of Part 2.
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International Subsystems, 1649-1963 (ICPSR 5011)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1649-01-01--1963-12-31
This study of the structure of the international system and its consequences for national war behavior is composed of three distinct types of data: Member Characteristic Data, Subsystem Data, and War Data, consisting of Richardson's Deadly Quarrel Data, Wright's War Data, Singer and Small's War Data, and Sorokins' Disturbance Data. In the Member Characteristic Data, each member of each subsystem is the unit of observation and the national characteristics of each member are reported. In the Subsystem Data, 21 subsystems constitute the unit of observation, with variables recording the number of members, wars, alliances, and polarity of each subsystem. The War Data report the war behavior of each of the 21 subsystems, with one record for each war as reported in the four major studies of war from which they were compiled.