The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes dataset, 1945-2015

Bibliographic Data

ID3916897
AuthorsKrista E Wiegand (0000-0001-8820-112X, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author), Emilia Justyna Powell (0000-0001-7433-8715, University of Notre Dame), Steven Mcdowell (Research Analyst, Los Rios Community College District)
Year2021
Volume58
Issue2
Pages304-314
Publication date2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022343319895560
OpenAlexW3018665837
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited37

This article introduces the Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes (PRTD) dataset, covering all interstate territorial disputes (1945-2015). Our dataset captures proposals for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes made by states involved in territorial claims at the disputant-year level. These proposals provide a concrete measure of changing state preferences toward negotiations, non-binding, and binding third-party dispute resolution methods over time. In contrast to existing attempt-level data, the monadic panel design of the dataset captures not only actual attempts at peaceful resolution - the result of an agreement between disputants - but also proposals for methods that did not occur but were preferred at a particular time point. Our dataset allows for robust and generalizable quantitative analyses of the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes that are sensitive to temporal, regional, claim-based, and state-level trends. To demonstrate the utility of our dataset, we use hybrid logistic regression to examine the determinants of binding PRTD proposals. Over-time changes in characteristics such as regime type and treaty commitments influence attitudes toward binding settlement methods differently than disputant-level measurements. We also show that time has a distinctively non-linear effect

Algorithm · Conflict resolution · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Resolution (logic) · Settlement (finance) · State (computer science) · Treaty · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance