Advancing peace research : leaving traces, selected articles by J. David Singer / edited by Jody B. Lear, Diane Macaulay and Meredith Reid Sarkees.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-282) and index.

Part 1: Who is this Fellow? -- 1. The Making of a Peace Researcher -- Part 2: Earlier Evaluations of National Security Policy -- 2. The Strategic Dilemma: Probability vs. Disutility -- 3. Stable Deterrence and its Limits -- Part 3: Public Dove and Policy Wonk -- 4. Control and Reduction of Armaments: Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate -- 5. Deterrence and Shelters -- 6. Inter-Nation Influence: A Formal Model -- Part 4: Querulous and Suggestive Interventions -- 7. The Incompleat Theorist: Insight without Evidence -- 8. Escalation and Control in International Conflict: A Simple Feedback Model -- 9. The Peace Researcher and Foreign Policy Prediction -- Part 5: Conceptual and Methodological Inspirations -- 10. The Historical Experiment as a Research Strategy in the Study of World Politics -- 11.Variables, Indicators, and Data: The Measurement Problem in Macro-Political Research -- Part 6: From Conventional Concepts to Operational Indicators -- 12. The Correlates of War Project: Continuity, Diversity and Convergence -- 13. Reconstructing the Cow Dataset on Material Capabilities, 1816-1985 -- 14. Measuring the Concentration of Power in the International System -- 15. Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding Rules, and Empirical Patterns -- Part 7: Scientific Research Payoffs -- 16. Capability Distribution, Uncertainty and Major Power War, 1820-1965 -- 17. Foreign Policy Indicators: Predictors of War in History and in the State of the World Message -- 18. Peace in the Gglobal System: Displacement, Interregnum, or Transformation? -- Part 8: Sermons for the Next Generation -- 19. Nuclear Confrontation: Ambivalence, Rationality, and the Doomsday Machine -- 20. Inter-State, Intra-State, and Extra-State Wars: A Comprehensive Look at Their Distribution Overtime, 1816-1997 -- 21. "New Wars" and Rumors of "New Wars" -- 22. The Responsibilities of Competence in the Global Village. Appendix: Curriculum Vitae of J. David Singer.

Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of war. His pioneering work on the Correlates of War project at the University of Michigan and his numerous books and articles have inspired generations of researchers in the fields of international relations, conflict analysis, security studies and peace science. This collection is a carefully selected overview of his work which provides not only an excellent introduction to his considerable methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions but also an intellectual history of developments in the field of international relations which are reflected in Professor Singer's work. This is essential reading for all those with an interest in the use of quantitative methods in social science, the changing nature of the study of international relations and the analysis of war and peace.