Advancing Peace Research: Leaving Traces, Selected Articles by J. David Singer

ISBN-13: 9780415779609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 292 str.

J David Singer

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Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of war. His pioneering work on the Correlates of War project at the University of Michigan and his numerous books and articles have inspired generations of researchers in the fields of international relations, conflict analysis, security studies and peace science.

This collection is a carefully selected overview of his work which provides not only an excellent introduction to his considerable methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions but also an intellectual history of developments in the field of international relations which are reflected in Professor Singer's work. This is essential reading for all those with an interest in the use of quantitative methods in social science, the changing nature of the study of international relations and the analysis of war and peace.

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Part 1: Who is this Fellow? 1. The Making of a Peace Researcher  Part 2: Earlier Evaluations of National Security Policy  2. The Strategic Dilemma: Probability vs. Disutility  3. Stable Deterrence and its Limits  Part 3: Public Dove and Policy Wonk  4. Control and Reduction of Armaments: Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate  5. Deterrence and Shelters  6. Inter-Nation Influence: A Formal Model  Part 4: Querulous and Suggestive Interventions  7. The Incompleat Theorist: Insight without Evidence  8. Escalation and Control in International Conflict: A Simple Feedback Model  9. The Peace Researcher and Foreign Policy Prediction  Part 5: Conceptual and Methodological Inspirations  10. The Historical Experiment as a Research Strategy in the Study of World Politics  11.Variables, Indicators, and Data: The Measurement Problem in Macro-Political Research  Part 6: From Conventional Concepts to Operational Indicators  12. The Correlates of War Project: Continuity, Diversity and Convergence  13. Reconstructing the Cow Dataset on Material Capabilities, 1816-1985  14. Measuring the Concentration of Power in the International System  15. Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding Rules, and Empirical Patterns  Part 7: Scientific Research Payoffs  16. Capability Distribution, Uncertainty and Major Power War, 1820-1965  17. Foreign Policy Indicators: Predictors of War in History and in the State of the World Message  18. Peace in the Gglobal System: Displacement, Interregnum, or Transformation?  Part 8: Sermons for the Next Generation  19. Nuclear Confrontation: Ambivalence, Rationality, and the Doomsday Machine  20. Inter-State, Intra-State, and Extra-State Wars: A Comprehensive Look at Their Distribution Overtime, 1816-1997 21.  "New Wars" and Rumors of "New Wars"  22. The Responsibilities of Competence in the Global Village.  Appendix: Curriculum Vitae of J. David Singer