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Related and Compatible Datasets
These data sets either employ Correlates of War country codes, derive from, or build upon, core Correlates of War datasets (e.g. alliance, militarized dispute, war, state membership data). They are largely compatible with COW coding rules and other COW data sets.
Alliance Treaty Obligations
and Provisions (ATOP) alliance data
Behavioral
Correlates of War (BCOW) via Russell Leng's website
EUGene
Software
CShapes: a dataset that provides historical maps of state boundaries and capitals in the post-World War II period.
International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Data Archive
The Issue Correlates
of War (ICOW)
The Kansas Event Data System (KEDS)
Minorities at Risk Project
Goertz
and Diehl's
Rivalry Data
Gleditsch's
Polity-D Data
Polity
IV Project
SHERFACS
Crisis Data Archive
Tatu
Vanhanen's Polyarchy Data Archive
Other Major Data Projects:
These represent a selection of the major resources and data sets frequently used by scholars in quantitative international relations. These links represent not simply replication data sets, but time-series-cross-sectional datasets on core variables.
PRIO Armed
Conflict Data
Uppsala
Conflict Data Program
Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) databases
Freedom
House Data
Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data
United Nations Statistics Division
Penn World Tables 5.6
International
Monetary Fund (IMF) Data
World Bank Data
Gleditsch
and Ward's Interstate System
Kristian Gleditsch's
Expanded Trade Data
Kristian
Gleditsch Minimum Distance Data
Kristian Gleditsch's Expanded
War Data
Bueno de
Mesquita and Siverson's Heads of State Data
Human Security Centre
Useful Documents
These documents contain particularly helpful discussions or information about data sets in international relations.