Empirical Evidence on the Causes of International Violence,

Abstract

This paper attempts to collect the results of empirical studies on the causes and correlates of international violence. The results to data suggest that there are probably no single attributes of states that are responsible for international violence. On the other hand, there is evidence to the effect that certain combinations of attributes could make a state violence prone. In addition, it was found that there are environmental factors which appear to make violence more likely. The difficulty inherent in making comparisons over highly disparate studies, however, necessarily makes this overview inconclusive and it is, therefore, offered only as an initial and partial interpretation of existing empirical work. l(Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA097810

Entities

People

  • Dina A. Zinnes

Organizations

  • foreign affairs ministry

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Factor Analysis
  • Foreign Policy
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • International Conflicts
  • International Relations
  • Military Personnel
  • New York
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Psychology
  • Societies
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Treaties
  • Violence
  • War

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Organizational Psychology.