Method evidence record

Alliance Network Analysis

Alliance network analysis studies international alliances as a graph of states linked by formal security commitments, and models how that network forms and evolves. Rather than treating each alliance dyad as independent, it uses network science and inferential models such as the exponential random graph model (ERGM) — applied to alliance data by Cranmer, Desmarais, and Menninga (2012) — to capture the complex dependencies, such as a state's tendency to ally with its allies' allies, that ordinary dyadic regression assumes away.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Network Analysis of International Alliance Systems

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / international-relations

Cranmer, S. J., Desmarais, B. A., & Menninga, E. J. (2012). Complex dependencies in the alliance network. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 29(3), 279–313. · DOI 10.1177/0738894212443446

Open full method

Curated claims

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.

Same method familyEvent Data Analysis of Conflictmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyMilitarized Interstate Dispute Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPower Transition Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.