Dynamic Foreign Policy Behavior (COPDAB)

A data frame on monthly dyadic foreign policy behavior from 1948 to 1978 for select dyads, using COPDAB data. The data offer the opportunity for a basic replication of Lebo and Moore (2003).

Usage

exCopdab

Format

A data frame with 372 observations on the following 12 variables.

ym

a year-month indicator, in the format of YYMM

eg2is

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of Egypt to Israel

is2eg

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of Israel to Egypt

us2ussr

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of the U.S. to the Soviet Union

ussr2us

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of the Soviet Union to the U.S.

us2fra

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of the U.S. to France

fra2us

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of France to the U.S.

us2is

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of the U.S. to Israel

is2us

an estimate of the dyadic foreign policy behavior of Israel to the U.S.

suez

a dummy variable indicating if the observation corresponds with the Suez Crisis

sixday

a dummy variable indicating if the observation corresponds with the Six-Day War

yomk

a dummy variable indicating if the observation corresponds with the Yom Kippur War

Details

Lebo and Moore (2003, 22-24) will offer more context about how these variables are coded. Important details for replication from scratch are assuredly lost to history, but the authors are clear about what they're doing and the procedure they used to weight fundamentally ordinal data to create some kind of continuous estimate. Context clues offer more information as well.

References

Lebo, Matthew J. and Will H. Moore. 2003. "Dynamic Foreign Policy Behavior." Journal of Conflict Resolution 47(1): 13-32.