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Description & Citation--Study No. 5011

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:5011
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05011
 
Title:International Subsystems, 1649-1963
 
Principal Investigator(s):Michael Haas
 
Bibliographic Citation:Haas, Michael. INTERNATIONAL SUBSYSTEMS, 1649-1963 [Computer file]. ICPSR05011-v1. Honolulu, HI: Michael Haas, University of Hawaii [producer], 1968. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05011
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study of the structure of the international system and its consequences for national war behavior is composed of three distinct types of data: Member Characteristic Data, Subsystem Data, and War Data, consisting of Richardson's Deadly Quarrel Data, Wright's War Data, Singer and Small's War Data, and Sorokins' Disturbance Data. In the Member Characteristic Data, each member of each subsystem is the unit of observation and the national characteristics of each member are reported. In the Subsystem Data, 21 subsystems constitute the unit of observation, with variables recording the number of members, wars, alliances, and polarity of each subsystem. The War Data report the war behavior of each of the 21 subsystems, with one record for each war as reported in the four major studies of war from which they were compiled.
 
Subject Term(s):foreign affairs, historical data, international conflict, international relations, militarism, national interests, nations, political systems, war, world politics
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Time Period:1649 - 1963
 
Universe:Nations considered to be part of the international system in the period 1649-1963.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 

Methodology

Data Source:(1) Richardson, Lewis F. STATISTICS OF DEADLY QUARRELS, 1809-1949 (ICPSR 5407), (2) Rosecrance, Richard N. ACTION AND REACTION IN WORLD POLITICS: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS IN PERSPECTIVE. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977, (3) Sorokin, Pitirim A. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS. London, England: G. Allen and Unwin, 1937, (4) Speeckaert, G.P. THE l,978 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOUNDED SINCE THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA: CHRONOLOGICAL LIST WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY G.P. SPEECKAERT. Brussels, Amsterdam: Union of International Associations, 1957, (5) Singer, David J., and Melvin Small. "The Frequency, Magnitude and Severity of International War: 1815-1945", and (6) Wright, Quincy. A STUDY OF WAR. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1962.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-03
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: International Subsystems, 1649-1963
 

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