As part of a Rapid Evidence Assessment Project I am conducting (waiting professional editing to be sent out for review) I collected in one point information on all the conflict-political science Data-sets containing data that extends before 1815. A pared down version of this collection can be found in the a table below. The REA was produced by looking at articles from three quantitative friendly international relations conflict journals between 1970 and 2014. This might be a useful resource for scholars wondering what data is out there that looks to the past. For more information you will have to wait for the published article.
In the REA I looks at what variables tend to be used in the literature, what their findings are, and also explore some other questions. But one of the main goals is to familiarize the newer generations of researchers with these older datasets.
Table I: Datasets including pre-1815 Temporal Domains
Title | Authors | Temporal Space | Cases |
Great Power War List | Jack S. Levy | 1495-1975 | Great Powers |
Thompson Polarity Data | William R. Thompson | 1494-1983 | Great Powers and Global Powers |
Thompson Long Cycle-Concertation Data | William R. Thompson | 1494-1945 | Great Powers and Global Powers |
Long Economic Wave Data | William R. Thompson | 1490s-1790s | Great/ Global Power System |
Iroquois League Wars and Treaties | Neta C.Crawford | Wars:1450-1770 Treaties: 1677-1755 | Iroquois Confederacy, other North –East American polities |
Principal Rivalries | William R.Thomposn | 16th-18thcenturies | Great Powers and Global Powers |
1648-1815 Alliance Dataset | Dougals M. Gibler | 1648-1815 | European Interstate System |
Italian Polity and War Data 1250-1494 | David Sobek | 1250-1494 | Italian Polity System |
Machiavellian Index | David Sobek | 1250-1494 and 1920-1992 | Italian Polity System, and Modern Interstate System |
Leading Land Power Data | Jack S. Levy and William R.Thompson | 1495-1999 | European Great Powers |
Bronze Age Political Crises | William R. Thompson | 4000-1000 BCE | Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian polities |
Sea-power Primacy Data | Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson | 1494-1995 | Great Powers and Global Powers |
Political Development Data 1500-1800 | Kivanc Karaman and Sevket Pamuk | 1500-1800 | 12 European Major States |
Monarch and Monarchy Succession System Data | Andreh Kokkonen and Anders Sundell | 1000-1800 | 42 European States/Polities |
Polarity and War Data for Ancient China | Claudio Cioffi Revilla and David Lai | 2700-722 BCE | Ancient China |
General War Cycle List | Matthew Melko | 2119 BCE-1945 | 11 Civilizations |
Colony Data 1500-1987 | David Strang | 1500-1987 | Major Powers |
Major Power Initiator Data | Kevin Wang and James Lee Ray | 1495-1991 | Major Powers |
Long-Range Analysis of War Dataset (LORANOW) | Claudio Cioffi-Revilla | 7300 BCE-747 | Mesopotamia, China, Meso-america, Nubia, Andes |
Mayan Polities Dataset | Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Todd Landman | 800 BCE-1700 | Mayan Polities |
Ruler Autonomy Data | Edgar Kiser, Kriss A.Drass, William Brustein | 1400-1700 | Spain, England, France, Sweden |
French Rural Revolt | John Markoff | 1789 | France |
Long Wave Dates | Joshua Goldstein | 1495-1975 | Great Powers |
HERO(Dupuy Initiative) Data | Dupuy and Dupuy | 1600-1982 | Battles |
Leading Sector Data | Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson | 1801-1992 | US |
Global Power List | Woonsang Kim | 1648-1815 | Global Powers |
