Replication data for: Military Strategy and the Outbreak of International Conflict: Quantitative Empirical Tests - 1903-1992 (doi:10.7910/DVN/FVM6P6)

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Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Military Strategy and the Outbreak of International Conflict: Quantitative Empirical Tests - 1903-1992

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/FVM6P6

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2008-12-16

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Dan Reiter, 2008, "Replication data for: Military Strategy and the Outbreak of International Conflict: Quantitative Empirical Tests - 1903-1992", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FVM6P6, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:KVa0lIXIU+WOPNEegboBXw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Military Strategy and the Outbreak of International Conflict: Quantitative Empirical Tests - 1903-1992

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/FVM6P6

Authoring Entity:

Dan Reiter (Emory University)

Date of Production:

1999

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Dan Reiter

Date of Deposit:

2007

Date of Distribution:

2007

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FVM6P6

Study Scope

Abstract:

Military strategy is an area of growing interest in the study of international conflict. It is linked to the outbreak, duration, and outcome of wars. This article presents the first quantitative empirical tests of the proposition that military strategy affects the outbreak of international conflict. The focus is on maneuver-oriented military strategies, such as the German blitzkrieg in World War II, which are hypothesized to be particularly conflict prone. Tests were conducted on the initiation and escalation of militarized interstate disputes for a sample of states from 1903 to 1992. The results indicate that states with maneuver strategies were significantly more likely to initiate disputes in general, although not disputes that escalates to the use of force. However, dispute participants with maneuver strategies were significantly more likely to escalate a dispute to war if the adversary employed a military strategy that emphasized attrition.

Time Period:

1903-1992

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Data Access

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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

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Related Publications

Citation

Title:

Dan Reiter, "Military Strategy and the Outbreak of International Conflict: Quantitative Empirical Tests, 1903-1992," Journal of Conflict Resolution43 (June 1999): 366-387. DOI: 10.1177/0022002799043003005. <a href="http://jcr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/3/366?ck=nck" target= "_new"> article available here </a>

Bibliographic Citation:

Dan Reiter, "Military Strategy and the Outbreak of International Conflict: Quantitative Empirical Tests, 1903-1992," Journal of Conflict Resolution43 (June 1999): 366-387. DOI: 10.1177/0022002799043003005. <a href="http://jcr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/3/366?ck=nck" target= "_new"> article available here </a>

File Description--f111016

File: jcr99table1.tab

  • Number of cases: 184

  • No. of variables per record: 9

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data file for this study

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

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Other Study-Related Materials

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jcr99.zip

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Zip file containing data for this study in original format

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application/x-zip-compressed

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jcr99rep.log

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Log file for this study

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