war {sbm}

War data set

Description

This dataset contains two networks where the nodes are countries and an edge in network "belligerent" means that the two countries have been at least once at war between years 1816 to 2007 while an edge in network "alliance" means that the two countries have had a formal alliance between years 1816 to 2012. The network belligerent have less nodes since countries which have not been at war are not considered.

Usage

war

Format

A list with 2 two igraph objects, alliance and belligerent. Each graph have three attributes: 'name' (the country name), 'power' (a score related to military power: the higher, the better) and 'trade' (a score related to the trade effort between pairs of countries).

Source

networks were extracted from https://correlatesofwar.org/

References

Sarkees, Meredith Reid and Frank Wayman (2010). Resort to War: 1816 - 2007. Washington DC: CQ Press.

Gibler, Douglas M. 2009. International military alliances, 1648-2008. CQ Press

Examples

data(war)
class(war$belligerent)
igraph::gorder(war$alliance)
igraph::gorder(war$belligerent)
igraph::edges(war$alliance)
igraph::get.graph.attribute(war$alliance)