Improving the EUGene Software Program

理解国际冲突（以及更普遍的国际互动）仍然是社会科学家的一项关键任务。尤金是一个基于微软windows的软件程序，学者们可以用它来建立定量数据集，以分析国际政治，特别是国际冲突。该软件旨在对专家和新手数据分析人员都有用。它通过处理繁琐和困难的数据管理任务来帮助数据准备，并根据用户指定的选择将来自各种不同格式的输入数据集的数据合并为统一的输出数据集。该软件通过管理许多繁琐和耗时的任务，为教师、研究生和学者的额外研究提供了便利，从而腾出时间用于更有成效的研究任务（即理论发展和数据分析）。它还为国际关系分析人员开发数据集提供了一个通用的（免费的）软件基础设施。尤金可以免费下载到研究社区。更广泛的价值：尤金已经被学者们广泛使用定量数据来研究国际冲突的原因和后果。在此扩展中，研究者将为程序添加另一个分析单元，添加额外的冲突（战争）数据，扩展可用的风险态度数据，重新格式化并呈现额外的联盟数据，并继续添加新的用户数据集。新版本将为研究界提供一个改进的软件工具，特别是对那些研究国家间冲突的扩大和升级以及分析国家间争端的人。

Understanding international conflict (as well as international interactions more generally) remains a critical task for social scientists. EUGene is a Microsoft Windows-based software program that scholars may use to build quantitative data sets in order to analyze international politics, particularly international conflict. The software is designed to be useful both by experts and novice data analysts. It assists in data preparation by handling data management tasks that are cumbersome and difficult, and merging data from a variety of input data sets with differing formats into uniform output data sets according to user- specified choices. The software facilitates additional research by faculty, graduate students, and scholars-at-large by managing many cumbersome and time-consuming tasks, freeing up time that can be spent on more productive research tasks (namely theory development and data analysis). It also provides a common (and free) software infrastructure for dataset development by international relations analysts. EUGene is available for free download to the research community. Broader Value: EUGene has become widely used by scholars using quantitative data to study the causes and consequences of international conflict. In this expansion, the investigator will add another unit of analysis to the program, add additional conflict (war) data, expand available risk attitude data, reformat and present additional alliance data, and continue to add new user data sets. The new version will provide an improved software tool to the research community, particularly for those examining the expansion and escalation of interstate conflict, and analyzing interstate disputes.