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Sources of Middle East International Event Data*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Robert Burrowes ,
Douglas Muzzio  and
Bert Spector
Robert Burrowes
Affiliation:
New York University
Douglas Muzzio
Affiliation:
New York University
Bert Spector
Affiliation:
New York University
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The analysis of international event data has in the past several years become a major trend in quantitative and non-quantitative international politics. The upsurge of interest in event data parallels the attempt in the late 1960’s to test empirically the international relations theorizing of the 1950’s. Charles McClelland has argued forcefully that systems theory and other theories which focus on the structure, interactions and overt behavior in international politics can be conceptualized and operationalized in terms of streams of discrete events between the actors of the international system and its subsystems (McClelland, 1967 and 1970). These streams of conflictual and cooperative events - for example, verbal protests, visits, agreements and military actions - can be used to profile both the behavior of a nation and the relationships among two or more nations. As a consequence, the recent turn toward data-making and data-analysis has brought many students to international event analysis. This has been as true of students of comparative foreign policy as of international systems theory.

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Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , May 1971 , pp. 54 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1971

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Footnotes

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This paper is part of the Middle East Conflict and Cooperation Analysis (MECCA) Project, and is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #GS-2775. We wish to thank Ellen Hochman and Harriet Zagor for collecting portions of the data, and Donna Welensky for typing and proofreading the original manuscript. Portions of this paper were prepared for delivery at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 1971, and at the Third International Events Conference, Michigan State University, April, 1971.

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