A Foreign Conflict Behavior Code Sheet

1966 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Rummel

Foreign conflict behavior data covering long periods of time are urgently needed for the scientific investigation of international conflict. Except in the case of the most violent behavior, war, such data in aggregate form generally are not available to researchers.

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILL H. MOORE ◽  
DAVID R. DAVIS

In this article, the authors develop and empirically evaluate a general model of the linkages between domestic and international conflict behavior. Much of the literature on domestic international interactions has focused on the structural constraints of the international and domestic systems on leaders' foreign policy decisions. Rather than focusing on structural constraints, the present authors model the influence of the behavior of domestic and international rivals on leader decision making. The impact of rivals' behavior on conflict across the domestic-international nexus has been neglected relative to the role of structural factors. This study helps redress that imbalance. The authors test their model with a statistical analysis of Zaire during the period 1975 to 1992 and find substantial support for the model.


2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton ◽  
Alexander H. Montgomery

There is growing evidence that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) provide strong institutional incentives to prevent international conflict among member states, often creating the conditions of trust that can help prevent militarized aggression. We provide an approach to the study of how international institutions influence conflict behavior that considers how PTAs exclude as well as include members and create asymmetrical relationships among members that could exacerbate conflict. PTAs do more than create expectations of economic gains and reduce opportunism; they also create hierarchical relations between states, which can encourage conflict under different conditions due to distrust. We theorize these conditions for militarized international disputes, develop appropriate measures using social network analysis, and test our expectations on new PTA data during the period 1950 to 2000.


2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-609
Author(s):  
Matthew DiLorenzo

Recent research identifies the risk and consequences of losing office as important factors in leaders’ decisions to initiate international conflicts. This paper argues that the institutional source of a domestic threat to a leader should condition the relationship between political insecurity and international conflict. Specifically, existing theoretical mechanisms linking international conflict to security in office should not apply to threats that come from outside a leader’s selectorate. Natural disasters provide a convenient opportunity to test this argument since others have argued that disasters not only affect the risk that all types of leaders lose office but that they do so by creating threats that operate through different mechanisms in different domestic institutional contexts. I find that deaths from disasters are positively associated with conflict initiation among large-coalition leaders throughout the period of 1950 to 2007. I also find that neither disaster deaths nor events are related to conflict behavior for small-coalition leaders. In arguing that not all threats to leader survival matter for international conflict, the paper offers an important qualification to theories of leader survival and international conflict.


2007 ◽  
Vol 100 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1171-1185
Author(s):  
Thomas Ross ◽  
María Isabel Fontao ◽  
Rainer Schneider

The functional role of self-regulation in aggressive and violent behavior continues to be an important problem in the forensic field. Theoretically, self-regulatory functions should influence other dimensions known to be related to aggressive behavior, but as of yet there is no empirical test of this assumption. Emotional self-regulation, conflict behavior, behavioral resources, and personality disorders were examined in a sample of 70 offenders with respect to the role that self-regulatory variables play in aggressive behavior. Although substantial correlations between self-regulator functions and aggressive behavior were found, these variables did not predict aggression in a subsequent regression analysis. Implications of the findings are discussed and put into relation with treatment issues of aggressive offenders.


Author(s):  
Nataliia Krusir

The article is devoted to the study of the criminological side of such a phenomenon as bullying, its concepts, signs and types. The historical development of the study of the concept of «bullying» is traced. The research of various scientists in the field of studying such a phenomenon as bullying is analyzed. The relationship between bullying and other forms of violent behavior is investigated. The main determinants that contribute to such actions are analyzed. One of the types of bullying is considered - cyberbullying, which is a form of aggressive, conflict behavior of a systematic nature, carried out using modern information and telecommunications. Lists the types of cyberbullying that occur in cyberspace, as well as the types of behavior that are characteristic of this phenomenon. The consequences of bullying are described and actions in bullying are compared with actions that qualify under Article 120 «Inducing to suicide» of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Article 128 «Torture» of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Discloses a concept such as «Bulicide». Emphasis is placed on the problem of preventing and combating bullying in Ukraine. The Laws of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Countering Bullying (Harassment)” and “On Education” are analyzed to identify actions that qualify as bullying. The administrative responsibility provided for commission of these actions is specified. To counteract and prevent such a negative phenomenon in Ukraine as bullying, it is proposed to improve the legislation that would clearly regulate this issue and strengthen the responsibility for bullying, as well as take measures to prevent this phenomenon at the national, special criminological and individual levels. In addition, given the threat to human life and health, as well as the age of adolescents, who have recently become bullying, the common signs of bullying and torture, it is proposed to equate certain types of bullying to torture, and proposed consideration of criminal -legal liability for bullying, children who have reached 14 years. The best ways to solve the problem of bullying are proposed, considering foreign experience. Keywords: bullying, violence, cyberbullying, criminal liability, counteracting bullying, measures to prevent bullying.


Res Publica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-343
Author(s):  
Gustaaf Geeraerst

Although the knowledge of war and international conflict has definitely increased, we do not as yet have much insight into why and how wars come about, and especially how war as a certain and comparably rare form of conflict regulation is connected to conflict behavior at lower levels of intensity as military disputes and international conflict behavior in general. Theoretical progress in the study of war demands a significant effort at the level of basic research. It is imperative to spend more energy at the rigorous deduction of testable propositions from general explanatory principles or mechanisms. For the success of such an endeavour it is essential to adopt both a dynamic and systems-theoretic perspective. This implies a vision of war as a certain and one of possible phases in the international political process, concurrently with other injuriousforms of interaction as serious disputes and low level conflict behavior, but also supportive behavior like trade and cooperation. Yet, if we are to analyze and understand the war phenomenon from this perspective, clearly more formalized approaches and techniques are imperative.


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