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Project Proposal


Viewing Conflict Attributes from a World-Systems Perspective



[CW Dillon](http://www.css.gmu.edu/?q=node/15)

for Conflict Models, CSS739

Fall 2014

George Mason University

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I am a PhD student in the Department of Computational Social Sciences, at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies. We focus our research on understanding complex adaptive social systems from a behavioral (even cognitive) perspective. This seminar, by Dr. Claudio Cioffi-Revilla focuses on models of conflict: statistical models, games and decision models, dynamic models and agent-based models, for example.

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Getting More from War Data

  • Correlates of War (COW) data is some of the most comprehensive data about conflicts
  • curated, reviewed, validated
  • covers the period 1820-current
  • Analysis of COW data has been mostly via regression models

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World-Systems Analysis

  • Quantitative approach to world history
  • Divides the international political economy worlds:
  • core ( $1^{st}$ world)
  • semi-periphery ( $2^{nd}$ world)
  • periphery ( $3^{rd}$ world)
  • Often applied in conjunction with ``dependence theory'' to explain differing development rates around the world

World-Systems and Conflict

  • Dependence theory interprets world-systems analysis as evidence of global class struggles, ala Marx
  • core exploits the periphery
  • chains of economic development
  • Root cause of conflict is undefended wealth

Scholarship

  • Immanuel Wallerstein
  • First published on world-systems analysis in 1974
  • Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
  • multi-cultural territorial division of labor
  • Frank & Gills
  • anthropoligists
  • widened concept to study development patterns back to Mesopotamia

Data

  • COW data easily had
  • COW Trade data is incomplete, several inconsistencies
  • No (current) world-system network data
  • Norbum 1900-1960
  • Text of Michael Haas 1968 World Hierarchies data
  • Gravity data for war-trade relationships (Ward, et al 2013)

World Trade Data

  • Cross-National Time Series Data Archive: CNTS (Banks 1968)
  • Maddison Historical Statistics (Maddison 2013)
  • Other incomplete sets:
  • World Trade Organization
  • Economics Web Institute

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Project

  • Build on the structural interpretation of world-systems analyis
  • Haas
  • Russett
  • Review previous methods of analysing conflict
  • Richardson
  • Cioffi-Revilla
  • Expand the utility of COW
  • Spatial
  • Structural

Status

  • Still building annual networks 1870-2009
  • Chase-Dunn openness measure: ${imports} / {per capita GDP}$
  • Barbieri (COW) trade + Maddison per capita GDP
  • MPP imputation for Maddison data
  • Undecided on some metrics
  • UCINET/SNA core-periphery vs igraph ``coreness''
  • 3 x 3 (core, semi-per, periphery) vs 2 x 2