International crisis behavior project, 1929-1985
By: principal investigators, Michael Brecher, Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Series: ICPSR -- 9286; ICPSR (Series) -- 9286
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Format: computer file /
Subjects: International relations; Research; World politics; Crisis management in government
Description: This data collection is part of a research effort aimed at investigating 20th century interstate crises and the behavior of states under externally generated stress. Data describe the sources, processes, and outcomes of all military-security crises over a 56-year period. Variables have been collected at both the micro/state actor level and the macro/international system level.
Notes: ICPSR data class: class IV.

Description based on: documentation dated Winter 1990.

Macro level variables include: crisis setting, crisis breakpoint, crisis management technique, superpower activity, international organization involvement, crisis outcome, and crisis severity; as well as geography, polarity, system level, conflict type, and power discrepancy. Micro level variables include: crisis trigger, state actor behavior, superpower activity, international organization involvement, and crisis oucome; as well as state age, territory, regime characteristics, state capability, state values, and social, economic, and political conditions.

1929-1985.

System requirements: a computer capable of reading 9-track tapes.