Collaborative Research on Updating the Militarized Interstate Dispute Data Set

该奖项更新了2001年战争相关项目军事化州际争端（MID）数据集。这样的努力对于国际冲突研究是至关重要的，但是更新这个收藏的事业是一个不朽的事业，超出了任何一个研究人员的范围或资源。因此，这是一项合作努力，将11所不同大学的学者联系起来，以系统和及时的方式完成任务。MID数据集在过去十年或更长的时间里一直处于国际冲突研究的前沿。该数据集最常用于冲突研究，MID数据已被用于探索国际关系研究中广泛的主题，包括大多数当代学术辩论的核心主题。此外，MID数据是该学科中其他几个数据项目的基础，并且与一系列其他数据汇编高度兼容，从而促进了数据集的组合和对更广泛理论问题集的探索。更新军事化州际争端数据集需要完成以下主要步骤：1)从各种来源收集和记录军事化事件。这需要搜索全球、区域和国家来源，寻找一国对另一国威胁、展示或使用武力的迹象；2)检查、归档和记录收集到的事件，以确保一致性、完整性和无重复；3)根据收集的事件和必要的补充研究，构成军事化争端。由于争端是冲突的一部分，因此必须确定诸如开始和结束日期、次要参与者、升级阶段、总死亡人数、解决方法和总体结果等内容。还准备了对每个争议的简短叙述描述；4)检查、归档和记录争议，以确保符合编码规则、与文档标准兼容、内部一致性和无重复；5)解决编码程序、文档要求、问题案例等方面出现的问题；6)准备数据集的最终版本（3.0），以便通过万维网发布。这需要解决当前版本（2.1）中发现的一些问题，然后才能将其与1993-2001年的数据合并。这是政治学项目的一个主要基础设施项目，可以更新一个数据集，供众多国际关系和比较政治学学者使用。

This award updates the Correlates of War Project Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) data set through 2001. Such an effort is critical for international conflict research, but the enterprise of updating this collection is a monumental one that is beyond the scope or resources of any single researcher. Consequently this is a collaborative effort, linking scholars at eleven different universities to complete the task in a systematic and timely fashion. The MID data set has been at the forefront on international conflict research over the past decade or more. This data set is the most frequently used in conflict research and MID data has been employed to explore a staggering breadth of topics in international relations research, including most of those central to contemporary scholarly debates. Furthermore, MID data are the basis for several other data projects in the discipline as well as highly compatible with a range of other data compilations, thereby facilitating the combination of data sets and the exploration of broader sets of theoretical questions.Updating the Militarized Interstate Dispute data set requires completion of the following major steps: 1) collect and document militarized incidents from a variety of sources. This entails searching global, regional, and national sources for indications of a threat, display, or use of force by one state against another; 2) checking, archiving, and documenting the incidents collected to insure consistency, completeness, and absence of duplication; 3) composing militarized disputes based on the collected incidents and additional research as necessary. Because disputes are conflict episodes, such things as starting and ending dates, secondary participants, stages of escalation, overall fatalities, method of settlement, and general outcome must be determined. A short narrative description of each dispute is also prepared; 4) checking, archiving, and documenting disputes in order to insure such things as conformity with coding rules, compatibility with documentation standards, internal consistency, and absence of duplication; 5) resolving issues that arise concerning coding procedures, documentation requirements, problem cases, and the like; and, 6) preparing a final version (3.0) of the data set for distribution via the world wide web. This requires the resolution of a few problems that have been found in the present version (2.1) before it can be merged with the 1993-2001 data.This is a major infrastructure project for the Political Science program and enables the updating of a data set that will be used by numerous scholars in international relations and comparative politics.