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The purpose of this study is to establish how far cooperative strategies in international politics can increase the prospects for international peace. Main Topics:Variables Bilateral treatymaking, activities of the permanent Court of Justice, war. Geographical proximity, cultural dissimilarity, prior patterns of bilateral friendship and antagonism Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

This dataset was developed to introduce students to cross-national political data analysis. Main Topics: Cross-sectional data are available in the form of 72 variables for 108 nations. Time series data are available in the form of 12 variables for 60 nations, 1919-1939.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) datasets published by the Energy Statistics Division (ESD) contain annual and quarterly time series data from 1960 onwards on energy production, trade, stocks, transformation, consumption, prices and taxes as well as on greenhouse gas emissions for over the 30 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Member countries and over 100 non-OECD countries worldwide.

The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. It concerns annual trade data from 1962 to the most recent year. UN Comtrade is considered the most comprehensive trade database available with more than 1.1 billion records. A typical record is, for instance, the exports of cars from Germany to the United States in 2004 in terms of value (US dollars), weight and supplementary quantity (number of cars). The database is continuously updated.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individual countries.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database provides current and internationally comparable annual time series data on the finances and fiscal policies of IMF member governments from 1972 onwards. Topics covered include:

• deficit/surplus or total financing
• revenues or grants, expenditures
• lending minus repayments
• domestic financing
• foreign financing
• domestic debt or total debt, and foreign debt

This database was first provided by ESDS International in November 2004.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Balance of Payments (BOPS) database is a statistical statement containing over 100,000 quarterly and annual time series data that summarise, for a specific period (typically a year or quarter), the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world.

The United Nations (UN) Common Database (UNCDB) is a major international databank that draws together hundreds of key human development indicators for all available countries and areas. It contains more than 300 statistical series for over 280 countries and in most cases time series are available from 1970 or 1980.The database contains statistics derived from 30 international data sources produced by organisations such as FAO, UNCTAD, UNSD, WHO, World Bank, UNAIDS and ITU.

Published annually by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the International Development (Debt and Aid) Statistics provide up-to-date comparative statistics and information on international development from 1975 onwards, presented in the following key tables: External Debt Statistics (discontinued as of 2004)

The World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) contain statistical data for over 600 development indicators for over 200 countries and 18 country groups running from 1960 onwards. The extensive collection of development data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators.