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cow_signed_relations — Correlates of War signed international relations (1946-1999)

Description

A temporal signed network of relations between countries after the Second World War, constructed by P. Doreian and A. Mrvar from the Correlates of War data to study structural balance in international relations. The data are split in 51 overlapping four-year time windows, from 1946–1949 to 1996–1999, shifted by one year. The networks were distributed by A. Mrvar on the Pajek website, and collected by S. Aref in a collection of signed networks used to compute the frustration index (Aref and Wilson, 2019).

Nodes are countries, and an undirected edge between two countries has sign $+1$ for a positive relation (joint membership in alliances, unions of states, or inter-governmental agreements) and $-1$ for a negative relation (being at war, being in conflict without military involvement, or having border disputes or sharp disagreements on ideology or policy) during the time window. Each network contains only the countries with at least one relation in its window, from 64 countries and 362 relations in 1946–1949 to 151 countries and 1,247 relations in 1996–1999. The networks are named after their window (e.g. 1946-1949).

The networks have the following properties:

  • name (vertices): the Correlates of War three-letter abbreviation of the country (e.g. USA, RUS).
  • sign (edges): $+1$ for a positive and $-1$ for a negative relation.

The source also contains a separate copy of the first window (N46.net), the signed triads that Doreian and Mrvar use as balance "fragments", and an undocumented 21-node directed signed network (haddate1.net); these are not included.

Tags
Political Conflict Signed Temporal Metadata
Citation
  • P. Doreian and A. Mrvar, "Structural balance and signed international relations." Journal of Social Structure 16(1), 1–49 (2015) 10.21307/joss-2019-012 Sci-Hub
  • S. Aref and M. C. Wilson, "Balance and frustration in signed networks." J. Complex Networks 7(2), 163–189 (2019) 10.1093/comnet/cny015 Sci-Hub
  • J. Pevehouse, T. Nordstrom and K. Warnke, "The Correlates of War 2 international governmental organizations data version 2.0." Conflict Management and Peace Science 21(2), 101–119 (2004) 10.1080/07388940490463933 Sci-Hub
  • S. Aref, "Signed networks from sociology and political science, systems biology, international relations, finance, and computational chemistry." Figshare (2017) 10.6084/m9.figshare.5700832 Sci-Hub
Upstream URL 403
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5700832
http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pajek/SVG/CoW/
Upstream license
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
1946-1949 64 362 11.31 8.00 19.08 17.88 0.46 0.86 6 0.94 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
1947-1950 66 376 11.39 7.72 19.08 20.17 0.52 0.85 5 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
1948-1951 68 423 12.44 8.16 19.15 15.66 0.20 0.79 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
1949-1952 70 421 12.03 8.34 19.11 17.74 0.16 0.79 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
1950-1953 72 437 12.14 8.29 19.12 19.00 0.14 0.78 5 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1951-1954 73 461 12.63 8.34 19.15 18.43 0.07 0.75 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1952-1955 75 491 13.09 8.08 19.18 18.59 0.12 0.76 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1953-1956 79 512 12.96 8.21 19.19 18.84 0.09 0.75 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1954-1957 80 492 12.30 8.26 19.12 20.33 0.08 0.76 5 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1955-1958 81 510 12.59 8.39 19.14 19.59 0.04 0.75 4 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1956-1959 81 508 12.54 8.56 19.16 18.27 0.01 0.74 4 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1957-1960 91 521 11.45 8.81 19.16 18.57 0.02 0.73 5 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1958-1961 103 614 11.92 8.41 19.19 28.14 0.03 0.72 6 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1959-1962 104 626 12.04 8.33 19.19 27.30 0.03 0.73 6 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1960-1963 105 650 12.38 8.05 19.22 31.03 0.06 0.74 5 0.97 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1961-1964 106 648 12.23 8.09 19.21 33.79 0.06 0.75 6 0.97 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1962-1965 109 642 11.78 7.85 19.18 43.54 0.13 0.77 8 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1963-1966 109 626 11.49 7.51 18.23 30.38 0.11 0.76 6 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1964-1967 112 673 12.02 7.93 20.09 33.54 0.17 0.79 6 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB
1965-1968 107 590 11.03 8.55 20.13 26.00 0.17 0.77 6 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1966-1969 111 607 10.94 8.97 21.11 32.75 0.20 0.78 6 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1967-1970 109 600 11.01 9.11 21.11 28.63 0.17 0.78 8 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1968-1971 113 670 11.86 9.24 21.11 40.63 0.12 0.80 7 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB
1969-1972 113 663 11.73 9.21 21.09 39.26 0.13 0.81 7 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
1970-1973 111 677 12.20 9.20 21.10 38.92 0.17 0.82 8 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB
1971-1974 114 697 12.23 9.23 21.09 51.30 0.19 0.83 7 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB
1972-1975 119 725 12.18 9.60 22.07 50.72 0.19 0.83 7 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
1973-1976 121 740 12.23 9.59 22.10 33.98 0.21 0.82 7 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
1974-1977 123 813 13.22 9.67 23.08 38.18 0.26 0.82 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
1975-1978 130 910 14.00 9.42 23.08 47.21 0.20 0.82 6 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
1976-1979 132 968 14.67 9.89 25.06 47.02 0.28 0.83 6 0.98 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
1977-1980 130 958 14.74 9.88 25.05 53.89 0.27 0.84 6 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
1978-1981 134 999 14.91 10.65 27.03 67.99 0.36 0.87 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
1979-1982 137 1,025 14.96 11.05 28.03 67.71 0.41 0.88 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB
1980-1983 135 1,011 14.98 11.09 28.11 52.25 0.42 0.87 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB
1981-1984 137 1,038 15.15 11.42 29.08 52.70 0.49 0.88 7 0.99 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB
1982-1985 136 1,043 15.34 11.37 29.08 50.62 0.47 0.87 7 0.99 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB
1983-1986 138 1,045 15.14 11.36 29.07 52.91 0.48 0.87 7 0.99 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB
1984-1987 139 1,041 14.98 11.33 29.02 57.04 0.48 0.88 7 0.99 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB
1985-1988 139 1,035 14.89 11.31 29.02 63.41 0.50 0.89 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB
1986-1989 139 1,079 15.53 11.88 30.08 58.10 0.53 0.88 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1987-1990 139 1,215 17.48 12.53 30.25 35.30 0.34 0.86 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1988-1991 141 1,274 18.07 13.20 32.19 36.67 0.39 0.87 7 1.00 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1989-1992 151 1,285 17.02 13.57 32.20 37.64 0.35 0.86 7 0.96 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1990-1993 155 1,288 16.62 13.65 32.23 41.23 0.34 0.86 7 0.97 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1991-1994 155 1,246 16.08 13.50 32.22 41.86 0.38 0.86 8 0.97 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1992-1995 153 1,178 15.40 12.33 32.09 109.77 0.65 0.90 10 0.93 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1993-1996 148 1,181 15.96 12.28 32.10 73.07 0.62 0.89 11 0.97 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1994-1997 150 1,224 16.32 12.40 32.14 91.30 0.55 0.89 12 0.95 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1995-1998 150 1,230 16.40 12.47 32.12 75.69 0.51 0.89 10 0.95 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB
1996-1999 151 1,247 16.52 12.60 32.14 66.82 0.49 0.88 11 0.95 Undirected Unipartite name sign 2 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB 5 KiB