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020 _a9780203128398
040 _cDepartment of Peace and Conflict Studies
100 _aSinger, J. David
245 0 _aAdvancing Peace Research/
260 _aNew York:
_bRoutledge,
_c2012.
505 _aPart I. Who is this fellow? 1. The making of a peace researcher Part Ii. Earlier evaluations of national security policy 2. The strategic dilemma: probability vs. Disutility 3. Stable deterrence and its limits Part Iii. 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 Iv. 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 V. 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 Vi. 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 Vii. 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 global system: displacement, interregnum, or transformation? Part Viii. 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
650 _aPolitics
650 _a International Relations
856 _uhttp://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203128398
942 _cEBK