MID4: UPDATING THE MILITARIZED DISPUTE DATA SET, 2002-2010

MID4：更新军事化争端数据集，2002-2010

• 批准号: 0924240
• 负责人: Glenn Palmer
• 金额: $ 31.61万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924240&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MID4; UPDATING; MILITARIZED; DISPUTE; DATA; MID4; UPDATING; MILITARIZED; DISPUTE; DATA

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Correlates of War Project's Militarized Dispute Data (MID) set is the most prominent and heavily used collection in the study of international conflict. The most recent version (MID3) was released in 2004 and covered the years 1993-2001. The process of updating that data set -which took almost four years and involved eleven research centers- was extremely labor-intensive and expensive. To update the MID data on a relatively continuing basis requires a smoother, smaller, more efficient, and less expensive project. Therefore, this study will incorporate an iterated process utilizing information drawn from the old MID3 project to develop a computer program that is able to identify news stories about militarized disputes. Using this process, the researchers will gather news reports to update the MID data sets for the period 2002-2010. The procedures established by this project will also allow for virtually continuous updating of the MID data thereafter. Upon completion of the project the MID data will be available for the period 1816-2010. Because the MID data are so widely used by the scholarly community, this update will benefit researchers who are addressing a wide range of research questions, including but not limited to the democratic peace, power cycles, arms races, alliances, conflict management, diversionary uses of force, political geography and territorial disputes, crisis escalation, regional security, trade and interdependence, international norms, collective security, military strategy, Palestinian attitudes, intervention, and early warning systems. As one specific example of what could be done with the updated data that could not be done with the existing set, many hypotheses derived from Huntington?s "clash of civilizations" argument focus on the period since 1991; currently we are not able to reach strong conclusions about the empirical validity of those hypotheses. Another value of the MID data set pertains to the derivative data sets for which it provides the basis. For example, the dyadic version of the MID set permits researchers to consider the interactions of particular pairs of countries. Other examples include the Behavioral Correlates of War (BCOW) data set and the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project, which is collecting systematic data on contentious issues in world politics. Overall, a wide array of researchers not only depends on the MID data set for direct use in their own research, but scholars also make use of the data to construct other valuable data sets.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国回收与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。战争项目的军事争议数据（MID）集合是国际冲突研究中最突出和最常用的收集。 最新版本（MID3）于2004年发布，并涵盖了1993 - 2001年。 更新该数据集的过程（花费了将近四年，涉及11个研究中心）非常富有劳动力和昂贵。 要以相对持续的基础更新中间数据，需要一个更平稳，更小，更高效且较便宜的项目。 因此，这项研究将使用从旧的MID3项目中汲取的信息进行迭代过程，以开发能够确定有关军事纠纷的新闻报道的计算机程序。 使用此过程，研究人员将收集新闻报告，以更新2002 - 2010年期间的中间数据集。 该项目建立的过程还将允许实际上几乎连续更新中部数据。项目完成后，将在1816-2010期间可用。 Because the MID data are so widely used by the scholarly community, this update will benefit researchers who are addressing a wide range of research questions, including but not limited to the democratic peace, power cycles, arms races, alliances, conflict management, diversionary uses of force, political geography and territorial disputes, crisis escalation, regional security, trade and interdependence, international norms, collective security, military strategy, Palestinian attitudes, intervention, and early警告系统。 作为对现有集合无法完成的更新数据可以做些什么的具体示例，许多假设来自亨廷顿自1991年以来的“文明冲突”论点。目前，我们无法就这些假设的经验有效性得出强烈的结论。 中部数据集的另一个值与为其提供基础的衍生数据集有关。 例如，中型组合的二元版本允许研究人员考虑特定对国家的相互作用。 其他示例包括战争（BCOW）数据集的行为相关性和战争相关性（ICOW）项目，该项目正在收集有关世界政治中有争议问题的系统数据。总体而言，各种各样的研究人员不仅取决于在自己的研究中直接使用的中部数据集，而且学者们还利用数据来构建其他有价值的数据集。