This is a simple data set of 71 arms races reported by Gibler et al. in their 2005 article in Journal of Peace Research.
Format
A data frame the following five variables.
race_id
the arms race identifier
ccode1
a numeric vector for the Correlates of War state code for the first state
ccode2
a numeric vector for the Correlates of War state code for the second state
styear
the start year for the arms race
endyear
the end year for the arms race