Singer, J. David <br/><br/>
Advancing Peace Research/ 

 - New York:   Routledge,   2012. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Who is this fellow? 1. The making of a peace researcher <br/>Part Ii. Earlier evaluations of national security policy <br/>2. The strategic dilemma: probability vs. Disutility <br/>3. Stable deterrence and its limits Part Iii. Public dove and policy wonk  <br/>4. Control and reduction of armaments: hearing before a subcommittee of the committee on foreign relations, united states senate <br/>5. Deterrence and shelters 6. Inter-nation influence: a formal model <br/><br/>Part Iv. Querulous and suggestive interventions <br/>7. The incompleat theorist: insight without evidence <br/>8. Escalation and control in international conflict: a simple feedback model <br/>9. The peace researcher and foreign policy prediction <br/><br/>Part V. Conceptual and methodological inspirations <br/>10. The historical experiment as a research strategy in the study of world politics <br/>11.Variables, indicators, and data: the measurement problem in macro-political research Part Vi. From conventional concepts to operational indicators <br/>12. The correlates of war project: continuity, diversity and convergence <br/>13. Reconstructing the cow dataset on material capabilities, 1816-1985 <br/>14. Measuring the concentration of power in the international system <br/>15. Militarized interstate disputes, 1816-1992: rationale, coding rules, and empirical patterns <br/><br/>Part Vii. Scientific research payoffs 16. Capability distribution, uncertainty and major power war, 1820-1965 <br/>17. Foreign policy indicators: predictors of war in history and in the state of the world message <br/>18. Peace in the global system: displacement, interregnum, or transformation? <br/><br/>Part Viii. Sermons for the next generation <br/>19. Nuclear confrontation: ambivalence, rationality, and the doomsday machine <br/>20. Inter-state, intra-state, and extra-state wars: a comprehensive look at their distribution overtime, 1816-1997 <br/>21. "new wars" and rumors of "new wars" <br/>22. The responsibilities of competence in the global village Appendix: curriculum vitae of J. David Singer 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203128398 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Politics<br/> International Relations