TY  - BOOK
AU  - Singer, J. David
TI  - Advancing Peace Research
SN  - 9780203128398
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York: 
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - Politics
KW  -  International Relations
N1  - Part I. Who is this fellow? 1. The making of a peace researcher 
Part Ii. Earlier evaluations of national security policy 
2. The strategic dilemma: probability vs. Disutility 
3. Stable deterrence and its limits Part Iii. 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 Iv. 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 V. 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 Vi. 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 Vii. 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 global system: displacement, interregnum, or transformation? 

Part Viii. 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
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