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Directed dispute-year data (Gibler, Miller, and Little, 2016)
Description
These are directed dispute-year data from the most recent version (2.2.1) of the Gibler-Miller-Little (GML) militarized interstate dispute (MID) data. They are used internally for merging into full dyad-year data frames.
Usage
gml_dirdisp
Format
A data frame with 10330 observations on the following 39 variables.
dispnum
the dispute number
ccode1
a numeric vector for the Correlates of War state code for the first state
ccode2
a numeric vector for the Correlates of War state code for the second state
year
a numeric vector for the year
midongoing
a constant of 1 for ongoing disputes
midonset
a numeric vector that equals 1 for the onset year of a given dispute
sidea1
is the first state (in
ccode1
) on the side that took the first militarized action?sidea2
is the second state (in
ccode2
) on the side that took the first militarized action?revstate1
is the first state (in
ccode1
) a revisionist state in the dispute?revstate2
is the second state (in
ccode2
) a revisionist state in the dispute?revtype11
what is the
revtype1
value forccode1
?revtype12
what is the
revtype1
value forccode2
?revtype21
what is the
revtype2
value forccode1
?revtype22
what is the
revtype2
value forccode2
?fatality1
what is the
fatality
value forccode1
?fatality2
what is the
fatality
value forccode2
?fatalpre1
what is the
fatalpre
value forccode1
?fatalpre2
what is the
fatalpre
value forccode2
?hiact1
what is the
hiact
value forccode1
?hiact2
what is the
hiact
value forccode2
?hostlev1
what is the
hostlev
value forccode1
?hostlev2
what is the
hostlev
value forccode2
?orig1
is
ccode1
an originator (1) of the dispute or a joiner (0)?orig2
is
ccode2
an originator (1) of the dispute or a joiner (0)?hiact
the highest level of action observed in the dispute
hostlev
the hostility level of action observed in the dispute
mindur
the minimum length of the dispute (in days)
maxdur
the maximum length of the dispute (in days)
outcome
the dispute-level outcome
settle
the settlement value for the dispute
fatality
the ordinal fatality level for the dispute
fatalpre
the fatalities (with precision, if known) for the dispute
stmon
the start month of the dispute (dispute-level)
endmon
the end month of the dispute (dispute-level)
recip
was the dispute reciprocated (i.e. did Side B also have a militarized action)?
numa
the number of participants on Side A
numb
the number of participants on Side B
ongo2010
was the dispute ongoing as of 2010?
version
a version identifier
Details
Data are the directed dispute-year data made available in version 2.1.1 of the GML MID data.
I would caution against using the revtype
variables. They are not informative. They are however
included for legacy reasons.
References
Gibler, Douglas M., Steven V. Miller, and Erin K. Little. 2016. “An Analysis of the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Dataset, 1816-2001.” International Studies Quarterly 60(4): 719-730.