International Behavior Analysis: The Operationalization Task

Abstract

A comprehensive, social scientific framework for analyzing foreign policy behavior has been constructed and refined. Interrelationships between certain factors (variables) have been indicated within the contexts of international source and decision-making behavior and, moreover, within the contexts of different situations and nations. Each factor is being transformed into an actual variable. Data are assembled for the five major sets of factors which are important for both source analysis and process analysis: psychological, political, societal, interstate, and global. Nations have been classified on the basis of three dimensions: economics, governmental, and capability. Data have already been assembled for each of the dimensions, generating 27 variables for 56 nations. Events are classified on the basis of six dimensions: spatial, relational, temporal, situational, substantial, and behavioral.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1976
Accession Number
ADA021243

Entities

People

  • Gerald W. Hopple
  • Jonathan Wilkenfeld
  • Stephen J. Andriole

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Case Studies
  • Construction
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Foreign Policy
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Public Opinion
  • Security

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