D.M. Gibler. Intradispute Bargaining: Collecting and Coding Individual Incidents in the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Data, 1816-2001. Proposal funded by the National Science Foundation. NSF Web Release.
Both policymakers and scholars care greatly about military bargaining between states and between leaders, but no large-scale data resource exists to adequately test our theories. I seek funding to change that by collecting, coding, and analyzing incident-level data for all Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs) from 1816 to 2001. The current MID data is the most widely used international relations dataset, but even this data provides only summary measures of combatant interactions. The data includes the start and end dates, highest hostility and fatality levels, and the final outcomes and settlements. There is no data on the evolution of conflict within the dispute, when fatalities occurred, or what actions were taken by each combatant. The most recent extensions of that data---to 2001 and the current update---change this for a limited temporal span by including incident-level actions. This grant would extend that effort, improve the data, and make the data compatible with the temporal domains of almost all studies of conflict.
Both policymakers and scholars care greatly about military bargaining between states and between leaders, but no large-scale data resource exists to adequately test our theories. I seek funding to change that by collecting, coding, and analyzing incident-level data for all Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs) from 1816 to 2001. The current MID data is the most widely used international relations dataset, but even this data provides only summary measures of combatant interactions. The data includes the start and end dates, highest hostility and fatality levels, and the final outcomes and settlements. There is no data on the evolution of conflict within the dispute, when fatalities occurred, or what actions were taken by each combatant. The most recent extensions of that data---to 2001 and the current update---change this for a limited temporal span by including incident-level actions. This grant would extend that effort, improve the data, and make the data compatible with the temporal domains of almost all studies of conflict.
Progress update:
We have cleaned the original MID datasets, 1816 to 2001, and have completed collection of incidents for 1960 to 1974.
We have cleaned the original MID datasets, 1816 to 2001, and have completed collection of incidents for 1960 to 1974.