World Event/interaction Survey (WEIS Project) [Codebook]
World Event/interaction Survey (WEIS Project) [Codebook]

Author: Charles McClelland

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Published: 1971

Total Pages: 28

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The World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) Project is a research program examining international system characteristics and processes. Specifically, the data collected in the WEIS Project are public events reported daily in the press. The data reflect the flow of action and response between countries. One basic theoretical assumption underlying the project is that in the international political system, nations act consistently enough so that their past behavior is a source for the prediction of their present and future actions. Thus a country's external 'performance characteristics' in dealing with a wide variety of situations and with other countries are conceived to be made up of combinations of 'primary actions' that are categorized explicitly. These combinations of 'primary actions' are expected to fit together with those other countries in patterns of interaction. The purpose of the research is to discover if these theoretically expected characteristics and patterns make regular appearances in international relations. (Author) and patterns make regular appearances in international relations. (Author).

The World Event/interaction Survey Data Collection
The World Event/interaction Survey Data Collection

Author: Gary D. Hoggard

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Published: 1969

Total Pages: 11

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Previous reports have outlined the theoretical basis of the program and the research procedures for event/interaction analysis. The report discusses the status of the data collection. The main data collection consists of 18,007 interaction items coded according to the WEIS (World Event/Interaction Survey) categorization system and taken from the daily New York Times for the three year period 1966, 1967, and 1968. The items are summarized in descriptive form and coded for computer analyses, as outlined in Technical Report no. 1. The descriptive accounts of the interaction items for 1967 are presented as a display of the data included in the collection. The distribution of the items by month for the three year period are presented and indicate an average of 500 items per month.

WEIS (World Event/Interaction Survey) Project Final Report
WEIS (World Event/Interaction Survey) Project Final Report

Author: Ronald G. Sherwin

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Published: 1973

Total Pages: 102

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The report summarizes the work carried on by the WEIS project since 1968. The specific topics discussed are (1) receiving and storing international relations information on computers in serialized data sets; (2) data retrieval and tabulation; and (3) event-data analysis, including monitoring and projecting event flows. In addition, the report presents the Project's views regarding foreign policy decision-making and executing adaptive foreign policies.

World Event/Interaction Survey Handbook
World Event/Interaction Survey Handbook

Author: Barbara Fitzsimmons

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Published: 1969

Total Pages: 36

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The world interaction survey is, in the first instance, a data gathering program focused on one dimension of international politics. That is the dimension of attempted national control in international political affairs. Each data item is a report of an international event. The purpose in gathering such reported acts committed cross-nationally by the upper level of officialdom of national regimes or by major political counter-elites is to facilitate analyses of structures and processes of action and response at the control level of international politics.

Experiments in the Scaling and Weighing of International Event Data
Experiments in the Scaling and Weighing of International Event Data

Author: Theodore J. Rubin

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Published: 1973

Total Pages: 59

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The paper describes a series of experiments in applying alternative procedures to the scaling and weighting of international event data in order to improve the validity of a measure based on such data, namely, a measure of relations between pairs of countries. Scaling is defined as the differentiation among events in terms of intensity along a friendly/hostile continuum. Weighting is defined as the differentiation among events in terms of significance or importance to the national security community. The event data employed were the World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) collection of international event interactions, and the experimental case sample consisted of 27 pairs of countries. (Modified author abstract).

International Interaction Analysis
International Interaction Analysis

Author: Charles A. McClelland

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Published: 1968

Total Pages: 126

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The rationale and procedures for converting historical narratives of international events to coded, machine-readable, indicator data are explained. The concepts of international interaction flows and interaction performance records of nations are introduced and compared to policy records. A theoretical approach is developed to define more closely the data analyzed in the Survey. Basic technical terms employed in the Survey are defined and discussed including event/interaction, routine event flows, disturbances, administrative control systems, major control systems, dampening and amplifying effects, interactional phenomena, transactional phenomena, and an exchange concept.