Principal Rivalries

9507561汤普森冷战的结束在很大程度上是意想不到的，因此很难解释冷战的消亡，这突出表明有必要更好地理解世界政治中的竞争现象。但除了苏美关系的历史，还有更多的利害关系，因为相当大比例的国际冲突植根于与过去和未来有关的特定二元世仇的背景下。忽视这些背景可能会严重扭曲整个国际关系的分析工作。这项调查根据决策者对竞争性的主要反对者等级的看法来识别竞争，而不是根据国家参与的争端数量来识别竞争。从1494年至1993年收集了所有大国的基本竞争数据，从1816年至1993年收集了所有小国的基本竞争数据，包括关于参与者、长度、对竞争对手构成的安全威胁的看法和所涉问题的信息。在竞争研究中可能需要的其他类型的信息已经存在于其他数据集中，不会被重复。该项目创建了一个可以整合到其他现有研究计划中的竞争集。***

9507561 Thompson The largely unanticipated end of the Cold War, and the consequent difficulties in explaining its demise, underline the need to better understand the phenomenon of rivalries in world politics. But there is much more at stake than the history of the Soviet- American relationship for a respectable proportion of international conflict is embedded within the contexts of specific dyadic feuds with pasts and futures. To ignore these contexts may seriously distort the entire analytical undertaking of international relations. This investigation identifies rivalries in terms of decision- maker perceptions of a hierarchy of competitive, principal opponents as opposed to the number of disputes in which states engage. Basic rivalry data, including information on participants, length, perceptions of the security threat posed by the competitor and the issues at stake, are gathered on all major powers from 1494 to 1993 and all minor powers from 1816 to 1993. Other types of information that might be desirable in the study of rivalries already exists in other data sets and are not being duplicated. The project creates a rivalry set that can be integrated into other existing research programs. ***