Behavioral correlates of war, 1816-1975
By: principal investigator, Russell J. Leng
Series: ICPSR study -- 8606; ICPSR (Series) -- 8606
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: International relations; World politics; War
Description: This study concerns the behavior of various states involved in 38 interstate crises over the past 160 years. In particular, it follows the attempts of these states to influence others, and the responses generated over the course of the crises. The sample reflects a broad historical range of crises and includes those which involve war as well as ones that do not involve war. Each data file contains a crisis or set of crises. Within each data file the cases represent actions taken during the crisis period. The data allow for a micro level of analysis with measures that distinguish a wide range of cooperative and conflictive interstate actions. In addition, measures are included which are sensitive to the mix of different behaviors and which record the tempo of the action within given time intervals. The Crisis program provided allows for the counting and scaling of events.
Notes: Event/transaction data and program source code.

(1) Part 32 is the Crisis program, an interactive program written in VAX-11 PASCAL which contains subroutines for counting and scaling actions. This program was written for use on a Digital VAX mini computer. Part 33 is a categorization and weight scheme used by the Crisis program. This scheme is necessary to run the Crisis program. This scheme may be modified by users to their own specifications. It also should be noted that in order to use the Crisis program the names of the crisis files and of the categorization/weight scheme file MUST match the part names provided below, excluding the section in parentheses. (2) Parts 1-31 contain 44 variables with logical record lengths of 80 characters. There is one record per case. All data files are rectangular.

ICPSR data class: Class IV

Chronological coverage: 1816-1975; data collected: 1972-1985.

Newspaper accounts (primarily the NEW YORK TIMES), English and foreign language accounts by diplomatic historians, and prepared chronologies

National Science Foundation , SES-8418657

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Stratified sample of interstate crises.

Universe: Identified population of interstate crises 1816-1975.