A Warning on Michael Haas's

International Conflict by Michael Haas is potentially one of the most important and useful quantitative studies of international relations and war. Haas analyzes decision-making cases, nations, and systems; he uses correlations, R-factor analysis, Q-factor analysis, higher order analysis, and cluster analysis; he includes hundreds of variables covering, it seems, every conceivable concept, cause, condition of conflict; and his work is accumulative, building on the research of others. The book could be literally a storehouse of empirical findings for all students of international relations. Unfortunately, while trying to exploit the findings in the book, I found many to be substantively worthless. Indeed, 19 tables and figures and all related discussion are substantively useless, and two tables are

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