This page describes an NSF-funded project to collect and analyze all negotiated and imposed settlements that follow Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs), 1816-2001. The original proposal can be found below.
Project Status:
Project Status:
- All negotiated and imposed settlement data (agreements, exchanges, speeches) have been collected and coded for all MIDs
- We are currently in the process of aggregating and cleaning the data collection
Does Force or Agreement Lead to Peace?: A Collection and Analysis of Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Settlement, 1816 to 2001
NSF Award Number 0923406, for the years 2009-2011. Full Proposal.
From the Project Summary Statement:
This grant analyzes the effectiveness of substantive political settlements in ending international conflict. The recent literature on peace agreements often concludes that treaty terms matter little in determining the durability of peace following interstate conflict. The authors argue that this finding results from datasets that are ill-suited for examining the role of issue settlement following conflict. Current tests of negotiated settlements focus on the presence of negotiation rather than the removal of contested issues from states’ agendas. Further, by examining mostly wars, current studies exclude the many successful settlements that resolve conflict short of war.
To address these concerns, the authors are collecting and coding every formal negotiated settlement that follows a Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) between 1816 and 2001. There are 416 dyadic cases of negotiated settlement following MIDs, and the project will code each agreement for the presence and substance of political settlement. The authors will also collect information regarding the enforcement mechanisms used in the treaty, the presence of third-party mediators and guarantors, and the specifics of the negotiation process for each settlement. All information collected in this project would be available to the public in aggregated and single-case, searchable form.
UA coverage of the award here.
NSF Award Number 0923406, for the years 2009-2011. Full Proposal.
From the Project Summary Statement:
This grant analyzes the effectiveness of substantive political settlements in ending international conflict. The recent literature on peace agreements often concludes that treaty terms matter little in determining the durability of peace following interstate conflict. The authors argue that this finding results from datasets that are ill-suited for examining the role of issue settlement following conflict. Current tests of negotiated settlements focus on the presence of negotiation rather than the removal of contested issues from states’ agendas. Further, by examining mostly wars, current studies exclude the many successful settlements that resolve conflict short of war.
To address these concerns, the authors are collecting and coding every formal negotiated settlement that follows a Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) between 1816 and 2001. There are 416 dyadic cases of negotiated settlement following MIDs, and the project will code each agreement for the presence and substance of political settlement. The authors will also collect information regarding the enforcement mechanisms used in the treaty, the presence of third-party mediators and guarantors, and the specifics of the negotiation process for each settlement. All information collected in this project would be available to the public in aggregated and single-case, searchable form.
UA coverage of the award here.