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Joining the Club of Nations: Political Development and International Conflict, 1816–1976
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This paper examined the relationship between regime formation, regime change, and international conflict and made a distinction between evolutionary and revolutionary state formation processes as well as between revolutionary and evolutionary changes within existing states.Abstract:
This study examines the relationships between regime formation, regime change, and international conflict. A distinction is made between evolutionary and revolutionary state formation processes as well as between revolutionary and evolutionary changes within existing states. It is hypothesized that revolutionary state formations and regime changes result in high levels of post-independence or post-regime change involvement in interstate disputes. On the other hand, evolutionary political development and regime change results in low levels of conflict involvement. These patterns of individual state involvement in international conflict provide new insights into the high correlations between the size of the international system and a variety of interstate conflict attributes. The political development model suggests that the number of interstate conflicts in the system will increase when a large number of states are undergoing revolutionary regime changes, even when there is no change in the number of states in the system. These propositions are tested on data covering nearly all interstate system members in the 1816–1976 period. In addition, the extent to which the political development model accounts for patterns of contagious spread of international conflict is examined. The implications of the relations between internal processes of political development and change and interstate disputes for the study of international politics are examined.read more
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Democratization and the Danger of War
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Interpreting and Using Regression
TL;DR: Achlioptas et al. as mentioned in this paper present a working philosophy of regression that goes well beyond the abstract, unrealistic treatment given in previous texts, and show how good research takes account both of statistical theory and real world demands.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... Are the Freer Countries More Pacific?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the proposition that political freedom promotes peace, as suggested by R. J. Rummel, in its monadic form, and show that this proposition tends to be contradicted or unsupported, if we focus only on monadic relationships, if they refer to wars from a more distant past, if I include wars of an extrasystemic nature, or if we assess political freedom cross-sectionally (i.e., comparing a country's political conditions with those of its contemporaries).
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Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1976: Procedures, Patterns, and Insights
Charles S. Gochman,Zeev Maoz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an empirical description and discussion of interstate conflict behavior is presented. The basis is a recently completed data set consisting of all recorded instances of threats, displays, and displays.