Militarized Interstate Disputes

Description

A small sample from the militarized interstate disputes database, available at http://pss.la.psu.edu/MID_DATA.HTM.

Usage

data(mid)

Format

A table containing 6 variables ("conflict", "major", "contig", "power", "maxdem", "mindem", and "years") and 3,126 observations. For full variable descriptions, please see King and Zeng, 2001.

Source

Militarized Interstate Disputes database

References

King, Gary, and Lanche Zeng (2001). “Explaining Rare Events in International Relations,” International Organization, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 693-715.

Jones, Daniel M., Stuart A. Bremer and David Singer (1996). “Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding Rules, and Empirical Patterns,” Conflict Management and Peace Science, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 163-213.