Measuring the Correlates of War
Measuring the Correlates of War

Author: Joel David Singer

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780472101665

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A collection of articles that details the efforts of the Correlates of War Project in data generation and indicator construction

Regions of War and Peace
Regions of War and Peace

Author: Douglas Lemke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-01-21

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521007726

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In this contribution to the literature on the causes of war, Douglas Lemke asks whether the same factors affect minor powers as affect major ones. He investigates whether power parity and dissatisfaction with the status quo have an impact within Africa, the Far East, the Middle East and South America. Lemke argues that there are similarities across these regions and levels of power, and that parity and dissatisfaction are correlates of war around the world. The extent to which they increase the risk of war varies across regions, however, and the book looks at the possible sources of this cross-regional variation, concluding that differential progress toward development is the likely cause. This book will interest students and scholars of international relations and peace studies, as well as comparative politics and area studies.

A Guide to Intra-state Wars
A Guide to Intra-state Wars

Author: Jeffrey S. Dixon

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 0872897753

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This title describes how civil war is defined and categorized and presents data and descriptions for nearly 300 civil wars waged from 1816 to the present. Analyzing trends over time and regions, this work is the definitive source for understanding the phenomenon of civil war.

Measuring Peace
Measuring Peace

Author: Richard Caplan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0198810369

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An essential and accessible guide to the assessment of the effectiveness of peace-building policies for all those working in, or studying, the area.

Measuring African Development
Measuring African Development

Author: Morten Jerven

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1317552989

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The chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article "Africa's Statistical Tragedy". Is there a "statistical tragedy" unfolding in Africa now? If so then examining the roots of the problem of provision of statistics in poor economies is certainly of great importance. This book on measuring African development in the past and in the present draws on the historical experience of colonial French West Africa, Ghana, Sudan, Mauritania and Tanzania and the more contemporary experiences of Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authors each reflect on the changing ways statistics represent African economies and how they are used to govern them. This bookw as published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

What Do We Know about War?
What Do We Know about War?

Author: John A. Vasquez, Mackie Scholar in International Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2000-09-26

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1461621682

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What Do We Know About War? reviews the causes of war and the conditions of peace. Drawing analyses from the thirty-five year history of this discipline, leading researchers explore the roles played by alliances, territory, arms races, interstate rivalries, capability, and crisis bargaining in increasing the probability of war. They emphasize international norms and the recent finding that democratic states do not fight each other as factors that promote peace.