The MID3 Data Set, 1993–2001: Procedures, Coding Rules, and Description

Dealing with questions of war and peace and understanding the causes of interstate conflict is a primary goal of the field of international relations. In order to study interstate conflict in a rigorous manner, scholars have relied on established rules and procedures for gathering information into c...

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Published in:Conflict management and peace science 2004-04, Vol.21 (2), p.133-154
Main Authors: GHOSN, FATEN, PALMER, GLENN, BREMER, STUART A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data
Data coding
Data collection
Datasets
Death
Descriptive statistics
Geographic regions
International conflict
International disputes
International relations
Interstate conflict
Peace
Rules
Statistics
Territorial disputes
War
War conflict
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Summary:Dealing with questions of war and peace and understanding the causes of interstate conflict is a primary goal of the field of international relations. In order to study interstate conflict in a rigorous manner, scholars have relied on established rules and procedures for gathering information into coherent data sets. Among those data sets is the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) data. In this paper we first outline the data-collection process for the MID3 data. Second, we introduce two new data sets emerging from the project, "MID-I" and "MID-IP." Third, we present relatively small changes in coding rules for the new MID3 data and some descriptive statistics. The statistics indicate that the MID3 data are remarkably similar to the MID2.1 version, varying in some minor and predictable ways.
ISSN:0738-8942
1549-9219
DOI:10.1080/07388940490463861