This work uses two data sets provided through the Inter-university Consortium for Political
and Social Research: The Behavioral Correlates of War data were originally collected by …

That question, at least in broad outline, made its way to Ken Comer, deputy director for
intelligence at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) of the …

Models and techniques developed in artificial intelligence (AI) have been applied to a wide
variety of topics in international relations (IR). This chapter discusses the impact of AI models …

Existing formal models of political behavior have followed the lead of the natural sciences
and generally focused on methods that use continuous-variable mathematics. In 2002 …

Event sequences are a key element in human reasoning about international events. Human
analysts “understand” an international situation when they recognize sequences of political …

We address a well-known but infrequently discussed problem in the quantitative study of
international conflict: Despite immense data collections, prestigious journals, and …

In the last decade research in Machine Learning has developed a variety of powerful tools
for inductive learning and data analysis. On the other hand, research in International …

The study of warfare is one of the oldest and most important dynamics of interest for students
of politics. This area of research is predominantly− but not exclusively− undertaken within …

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has transformed from a body almost exclusively focused
on conflict to one that addresses a wide variety of issues. Despite a series of powerful works …

For well over a decade researchers in international relations have sought ways to combine
the rigor of quantitative techniques with the richness of qualitative data. Many have …