Militarized Interstate Dispute Analysis
Militarized interstate dispute (MID) analysis is the coding and quantitative study of confrontations in which one state threatens, displays, or uses military force against another. Built on the Correlates of War project's MID dataset and the coding rules codified by Jones, Bremer, and Singer (1996), it provides the standard observational measure of interstate conflict short of and including war, structured as dyad-years so that the onset, escalation, and outcomes of disputes can be modeled statistically across two centuries of the international system.
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- Jones, D. M., Bremer, S. A., & Singer, J. D. (1996). Militarized interstate disputes, 1816–1992: Rationale, coding rules, and empirical patterns. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 15(2), 163–213. DOI: 10.1177/073889429601500203 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Analysis in the Study of War. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/international-relations/militarized-dispute-analysis
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