Militarized Interstate Crises: The BCOW Typology and Its Applications

The Behavioral Correlates of War data set, which has been recently released for public use, is described and its potential uses are explored. The data set consists of coded descriptions of the actions of states engaged in a sample of thirty-eight interstate crises occurring between 1816 and 1975. The article begins by briefly comparing the BCOW data to extant events data collections, and then turns to detailed descriptions of the structure and content of the typology and coding scheme. The final section of the article discusses statistical techniques employed in analyzing the data, and reports on the most salient findings to date.

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