Resolve in International Politics by Joshua Kertzer

Author:Joshua Kertzer [Kertzer, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Diplomacy, Social Science, Political Science, Geopolitics, Politics, General
ISBN: 9780691181080
Google: u3OYDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 39964437
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

DATA AND VARIABLES

The backbone of the analyses that follow is the Military Interventions by Powerful States (MIPS) dataset, which includes all of the military interventions conducted from 1946 to 2003 by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China).32 Military interventions are defined broadly to refer to the use of armed forces (involving an official deployment of at least 500 military personnel) in pursuit of political objectives against a foreign adversary (whether a state or non-state actor). Thus, the interventions under investigation here range in severity, from simple displays of force—the United States sending troops to the Dominican Republic to stabilize the country following the assassination of Rafael Trujillo in 1961—to full-on ground combat, such as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Because I am interested in leader-level variables that can change over time, the unit of analysis is the conflict-month. The dependent variable is whether the great power has achieved victory at time t, based on the ATTAIN variable from the MIPS data, which measures whether the mission’s objective was achieved and maintained for at least 30 days. Because of the conflict-month unit of analysis, the variable is recoded such that monthly observations for ongoing interventions are coded 0, as are the final observations for interventions terminated short of victory. To make the results easier to interpret, all variables are rescaled from 0 to 1.

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