The Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) Project
The Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) Project
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DOI：
10.1177/002200278002400106
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发表时间：
1980-03
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
E. Azar
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作者：
E. Azar
作为政治学和政治学的学生，我们应该而且确实关心导致战争、不稳定和国际紧张局势的事件，以及导致公平相互依存、一体化、和平、生活质量改善、殖民主义减少等的事件。因为我们关心这些问题，所以我们尝试推进有关系统化我们的观察和提高我们的分析技能的程序和理论。国际关系的最新发展倾向于（a）强调对更具体问题的探索和用量化数据检验假设，以及（b）淡化对国际行为一般理论的探索。由于多种原因，这一趋势似乎正在发生轻微的变化。事件包含有用的信息，允许外交政策的学生单独或综合使用事件来研究外交政策的产出和投入。国际系统的学生使用单独的事件或聚合的事件来研究模式、结构和转变。这项研究要求不断开发模型和操作程序，以更快、更好的数值精度分析这些现象。冲突与和平数据库项目是我自己、我的学生和我的同事对此努力的贡献。
As students of politics and political science, we should and we do care about the events which lead to war, instability, and international tension as well as about events which lead to equitable interdependence, integration, peace, improvement of quality of life, reduction of colonialism, and so on. Because we care about these matters, we try to advance procedures and theories about systematizing our observations and improving our skills of analysis. Recent developments in international relations have tended to (a) emphasize the exploration of more specific problems and testing of hypotheses with quantified data and (b) deemphasized the search for general theories of internation behavior. This trend appears to be undergoing slight modification for many reasons. Events contain useful information which permit a student of foreign policy to use events singularly or in the aggregate to study foreign policy outputs and inputs. A student of international systems uses events singularly or in the aggregate to study patterns, structures, and transformation. This research calls for continuously developing models and operational procedures which analyze these phenomena with faster and better numerical precision. The Conflict and Peace Data Bank Project is the contribution of myself, my students, and my colleagues to this effort.