Power, Status, and International War

Journal of Peace Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1971, Pages 23-35

  Wallace, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 34247952190     PISSN: 00223433     EISSN: 14603578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002234337100800103     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Cf. especially A. F. K. Organski: World Politics, 2nd ed., (New York: Knopf, 1968), Chapter 9
2. and Hans J. Morgenthau: Politics Among Nations, 3rd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1961), Chapters 9-10.
3. Johan Galtung: ‘A Structural Theory of Aggression’, Journal of Peace Research, No. 2, 1964.
4. See also J. V. Clark: A Preliminary Investigation of Some Unconscious Assumptions Affecting Labor Efficiency in Eight Supermarkets, doctoral dissertation cited in
5. J. Stacy Adams: ‘Inequity in Social Exchange’, in Leonard Berkowitz (ed.): Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 2 (New York: Academic Press, 1965
6. L. R. Payles: Behavior of Industrial Work Groups (New York: Wiley, 1958); and
7. G. C. Homans: ‘Status Among Clerical Workers’, Human Organization, Vol. 12 (1963), pp. 5-10.
8. Egil Fossum: ‘Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Military Coups d'Etat in Latin America’, Journal of Peace Research, No. 3, 1967.
9. Manus I. Midlarsky: Status Inconsistency and the Onset of International Warfare, unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1969.
10. Maurice A. East: Stratification in the International System: An Empirical Analysis, unpublished MS.
11. For a detailed list of these requirements, cf. J. David Singer and Melvin Small: ‘The Composition and Status Ordering of the International System’, World Politics, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1966).
12. J. David Singer and Melvin Small: International War, 1816-1965: a Statistical Handbook (New York: Wiley, forthcoming).
13. Such an approach has been employed by F. Clifford German: ‘A Tentative Evaluation of World Power’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 4, (March 1960)
14. and Wilhelm Fucks: Formeln zur Macht: Prognosen über Völker, Wirtschaft, Potentiale (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1965).
15. Among those who believe it to be a vital factor is A. F. K. Organski. Cf. his World Politics (New York: Knopf, 1968), Chapter 7.
16. See Hans L. Zetterberg: On Motivation’ in Joseph Berger et al. (eds.): Sociological Theories in Progress (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
17. See Hubert M. Blalock: Causal Inferences in Non-Experimental Research (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964).
18. Hubert M. Blalock: ‘The Identification Problem and Theory-Building: The Case of Status Inconsistency’, American Sociological Review, 31 (February 1966).
19. Gudmund Hernes: ‘On Rank Disequilibrium and Military Coups d'Etat’, Journal of Peace Research, No. 1, 1969.
20. For an excellent discussion of these assumptions and their implications, see Hubert M. Blalock: ‘Status Inconsistency and Interaction: Some Alternative Models’, American Journal of Sociology, 73 (1967).
21. Cf. Sidney Siegal: Non-Parametric Statistics (New York: McGraw Hill, 1956), page 202.
22. The problem is thoroughly discussed in Hayward J. Alker, Jr.: ‘The Long Road to International Relations Theory; Problems of Statistical Nonadditivity’, World Politics, 18:4. A practical illustration of its importance may be found in Johnathan Wilkenfeld: ‘Domestic and Foreign Conflict Behavior of Nations’, Journal of Peace Research, No, 1, 1968.
23. J. David Singer and Melvin Small: ‘Alliance Aggregation and the Onset of War’, in J. David Singer (ed.): Quantitative International Politics (New York: Free Press, 1968).