Measuring the Correlates of War

The Correlates of War Project, launched in the 1960s, is ³one of the major social science projects of this century and since 1941 the major research project on the causes of war.² Participants in the Project have developed and analyzed research methods of use to scholars in all areas of the social sciences. These essays detail the achievements of the Project in data generation and the construction of indicators for such key concepts as power, polarity, and war. Discusses methodological difficulties and offers evaluation and comparison of key measures in relation to nat. attributes, systemic attributes, alliances among nations, and militarized disputes.Singer, J. David is the author of 'Measuring the Correlates of War' with ISBN 9780788194238 and ISBN 0788194232.