Author: admin March 28, 2008
Correlates of War can aid any kind of war, peacekeeping, or diplomacy research. The website collects data sets from mostly academic sources on the quantification of war, and includes obvious data sets (like data on all state-to-state wars from 1823 to 1990) and less obvious ones (like data on all international formal alliances from 1816 to 2000, arranged by type of alliance).
Often, you have to do some massaging of the content for it to make any sense (such as manually adding column titles to the spreadsheet), but the thoroughness of the data itself is good.
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