We have tried to present an experiment in the detection of illegal weapons production, using a rather modest and simplified computer simulation. Three inspection schemes are defined by their ability to detect evasion and to avoid false alarms, and their effects are simulated using Monte Carlo...

The understanding of international war, like many complex social events, may be - and has been - ap proached from a range of theoretical perspectives and via a variety of research strategies. Outside of the work of Bloch (1898), Sorokin (1936), Richardson (1941), and Wright (1942), however,...

As dangerous as it is to predict in world politics and war, we can reduce the error rate by clear specification of our class of cases and precise delineation of the spatial-temporal domain from which we hope to draw our possible lessons from history. Further, we next need to lay out our...

The Correlates of War (COW) project is a unique research project that has been central to the world politics research community for thirty-six years. Since its founding by J. David Singer at the University of Michigan in 1964, the project has contributed significantly to the scientific study of...

It is a puzzle that while academic research has increased in specialization, the important and complex problems facing humans urgently require a synthesis of understanding. This unique collaboration attempts to address such a problem by bringing together a host of prominent scholars from across...

Militarized interstate disputes are united historical cases of conflict in which the threat, display or use of military force short of war by one member state is explicitly directed towards the government, official representatives, official forces, property, or territory of another state....