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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Cover; Advancing Peace Research; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface: Leaving Traces; Acknowledgements; Part I: Who is this fellow?; 1. The making of a peace researcher; Part II: Earlier evaluations of national security policy as provocative; 1. The strategic dilemma: probability vs. disutility (1961); 2. Stable deterrence and its limits (1962); Part III: Public dove and policy wonk; 1. Control and reduction of armaments: hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (1956); 2. Deterrence and shelters (1961) |
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3. Inter-nation influence: a formal model (1963)Part IV: Querulous and suggestive interventions; 1. The incompleat theorist: insight without evidence (1969); 2. Escalation and control in international conflict: a simple feedback model (1970); 3. The peace researcher and foreign policy prediction (1973); Part V: Conceptual and methodological inspirations; 1. The historical experiment as a research strategy in the study of world politics (1977); 2. Variables, indicators, and data: the measurement problem in macropolitical research (1982) |
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Part VI: From conventional concepts to operational indicators1. The Correlates of War project: continuity, diversity, and convergence (1976); 2. Reconstructing the Correlates of War dataset on material capabilities of states, 1816-1985 (1988); 3. Measuring the concentration of power in the international system (1973) (with James Lee Ray); 4. Militarized interstate disputes, 1816-1992: rationale, coding rules, and empirical patterns (1996) (with Daniel M. Jones and Stuart A. Bremer); Part VII: Scientific research payoffs |
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1. Capability distribution, uncertainty, and major power war, 1820-1965 (1972) (with Stuart A. Bremer and John Stuckey)2. Foreign policy indicators: predictors of war in history and in the State of the World message (1974) (with Melvin Small); 3. Peace in the global system: displacement, interregnum, or transformation? (1991); Part VIII: Singer's sermons for the next generation; 1. Nuclear confrontation: ambivalence, rationality, and the doomsday machine (1992) |
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2. Inter-state, intra-state, and extra-state wars: a comprehensive look at their distribution over time, 1816-1997 (2003) (with Meredith Reid Sarkees and Frank Whelon Wayman)3. "New wars" and rumors of "new wars" (2002) (with Errol A. Henderson); 4. The responsibilities of competence in the global village (1985); Appendix: curriculum vitae; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of war. His pioneering work on the Correlates of War project at the University of Michigan and his numerous books and articles have inspired generations of researchers in the fields of international relations, conflict analysis, security studies and peace science. This collection is a carefully selected overview of his work which provides not only an excellent introduction to his considerable methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions but also an intelle |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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Lear, Jody B
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Macaulay, Diane
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Sarkees, Meredith Reid
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| ISBN |
9780203128398 |
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0203128397 |
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