A $555,647 grant from the National
Science Foundation supports the three-year expansion of the Correlates
of War Project’s Militarized Interstate Dispute Data, led by Vito D’Orazio, associate professor of political science and data sciences at the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
In a militarized interstate dispute, or
MID, one country or nation-state directs the threat, display or use of
armed force toward another state. These international interactions
invoke the military but fall short of war. For example, in December
1994, an American helicopter was shot down by North Korea. This incident
was part of a larger dispute involving North Korea, South Korea and the
United States in the 1990s. Despite this and many incidents involving
the military, the dispute did not escalate to war.
Read the full article on WVUToday.