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Author:   J. David Singer ,  Jody B. Lear ,  Diane Macaulay ,  Meredith Reid Sarkees
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9780415779593

ISBN 10:   0415779596
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   19 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Part 1: Who is this Fellow? 1. The Making of a Peace Researcher Part 2: Earlier Evaluations of National Security Policy 2. The Strategic Dilemma: Probability vs. Disutility 3. Stable Deterrence and its Limits Part 3: Public Dove and Policy Wonk 4. Control and Reduction of Armaments: Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate 5. Deterrence and Shelters 6. Inter-Nation Influence: A Formal Model Part 4: Querulous and Suggestive Interventions 7. The Incompleat Theorist: Insight without Evidence 8. Escalation and Control in International Conflict: A Simple Feedback Model 9. The Peace Researcher and Foreign Policy Prediction Part 5: Conceptual and Methodological Inspirations 10. The Historical Experiment as a Research Strategy in the Study of World Politics 11.Variables, Indicators, and Data: The Measurement Problem in Macro-Political Research Part 6: From Conventional Concepts to Operational Indicators 12. The Correlates of War Project: Continuity, Diversity and Convergence 13. Reconstructing the Cow Dataset on Material Capabilities, 1816-1985 14. Measuring the Concentration of Power in the International System 15. Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding Rules, and Empirical Patterns Part 7: Scientific Research Payoffs 16. Capability Distribution, Uncertainty and Major Power War, 1820-1965 17. Foreign Policy Indicators: Predictors of War in History and in the State of the World Message 18. Peace in the Gglobal System: Displacement, Interregnum, or Transformation? Part 8: Sermons for the Next Generation 19. Nuclear Confrontation: Ambivalence, Rationality, and the Doomsday Machine 20. Inter-State, Intra-State, and Extra-State Wars: A Comprehensive Look at Their Distribution Overtime, 1816-1997 21. ""New Wars"" and Rumors of ""New Wars"" 22. The Responsibilities of Competence in the Global Village. Appendix: Curriculum Vitae of J. David Singer"

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J. David Singer, a globally recognized scholar of international politics, passed away in 2009. At the time of his death, David Singer was Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where he'd been on faculty since 1958 until retiring in 2002. Professor Singer was a lucid and prolific writer who produced, alone and with co-authors, more than 120 articles in academic journals as well over 20 books and edited volumes over his long career. He received lifetime achievement awards from the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association and is listed in Who's Who in America. Professor Singer started the Correlates of War project in 1963. This academic study of the history of warfare. is concerned with collecting data about the history of wars and conflict among states and has driven forward quantitative research into the causes of warfare. The project has collected data on many attributes of international politics and national capabilities over time. The data have been used extensively by researchers examining such relationships and seeking to explain when countries go to war or avoid it, when they trade, when they form alliances and so on. The COW Project remains active and growing more than 45 years on.

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