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This includes combatant deaths due to fighting, disease, and starvation.", "We count a war as ongoing in a region even if the war is also ongoing in other regions. The sum across all regions can therefore be higher than the total number of ongoing wars.", "We extend the time-series to 2010, by drawing on Correlates of War's Directed Dyadic Interstate War Dataset (version 4.01), which identifies no wars for the years since 2003."], "origins": [{"id": 295, "titleSnapshot": "War data - Extra-State Wars", "title": "War Data", "descriptionSnapshot": "The Correlates of War (COW) Project has utilized a classification of wars that is based upon the status of territorial entities, in particular focusing on those that are classified as members of the inter-state system (referred to as \u201cstates\u201d). This dataset encompasses wars in the middle category \u2013 wars that take place between a state(s) and a nonstate entity outside the borders of the state, or extra-state wars.\n\nYou can find more notes at https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Extra-StateWars_Codebook.pdf", "description": "The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. The paper [\u201cThe COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)](https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/COW-Website-Typology-of-war-v4.pdf)\u201d by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of the changes since \u201cResort to Arms.\u201d In March 2010, the New COW War List was released. On June 30, 2010, the Non-State War Data (v4.0) became available. On October 28, 2010, the Intra-State War Data (v4.0) was released and on April 6, 2020 the Intra-State War Data (v5.1) became available online. On March 1, 2011, the Inter-State War Data (v4.0) became available online. Finally, we released the Extra-State War Data (v4.0) on December 8, 2011.", "producer": "Correlates of War", "citationFull": "Sarkees, Meredith Reid and Frank Wayman (2010). Resort to War: 1816 \u2013 2007. Washington DC: CQ Press.", "attribution": "Correlates of War - Wars (2020)", "attributionShort": "COW", "versionProducer": "v4.0", "urlMain": "https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/cow-war/", "urlDownload": "https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Extra-StateWarData_v4.0.csv", "dateAccessed": "2023-09-21", "datePublished": "2020-04-06", "license": {"url": "https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/", "name": "Correlates of War terms"}}, {"id": 296, "titleSnapshot": "War data - Non-State Wars", "title": "War Data", "descriptionSnapshot": "Previously, the Correlates of War (COW) Project has examined only wars that involved the government of a member of the interstate system (a state) in one form or another. The inclusion of non-state wars in the data presented here represents an attempt to broaden our understanding of war by including wars between or among non-state entities. Such entities include governments of other types of geopolitical units (GPUs), such as dependencies or non-state autonomous entities, that do not meet the criteria of system membership. They also might involve nonterritorial entities (NTEs) or non-state armed groups (NSAs) that have no defined territorial base.\n\nYou can find more notes at https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Non-StateWars_Codebook.pdf", "description": "The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. The paper [\u201cThe COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)](https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/COW-Website-Typology-of-war-v4.pdf)\u201d by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of the changes since \u201cResort to Arms.\u201d In March 2010, the New COW War List was released. On June 30, 2010, the Non-State War Data (v4.0) became available. On October 28, 2010, the Intra-State War Data (v4.0) was released and on April 6, 2020 the Intra-State War Data (v5.1) became available online. On March 1, 2011, the Inter-State War Data (v4.0) became available online. Finally, we released the Extra-State War Data (v4.0) on December 8, 2011.", "producer": "Correlates of War", "citationFull": "Sarkees, Meredith Reid and Frank Wayman (2010). Resort to War: 1816 \u2013 2007. 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This dataset encompasses wars that take place between or among the recognized states, or inter-state wars.\n\nYou can find more notes at https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Inter-StateWars_Codebook.pdf", "description": "The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. The paper [\u201cThe COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)](https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/COW-Website-Typology-of-war-v4.pdf)\u201d by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of the changes since \u201cResort to Arms.\u201d In March 2010, the New COW War List was released. On June 30, 2010, the Non-State War Data (v4.0) became available. On October 28, 2010, the Intra-State War Data (v4.0) was released and on April 6, 2020 the Intra-State War Data (v5.1) became available online. On March 1, 2011, the Inter-State War Data (v4.0) became available online. Finally, we released the Extra-State War Data (v4.0) on December 8, 2011.", "producer": "Correlates of War", "citationFull": "Sarkees, Meredith Reid and Frank Wayman (2010). Resort to War: 1816 \u2013 2007. Washington DC: CQ Press.", "attribution": "Correlates of War - Wars (2020)", "attributionShort": "COW", "versionProducer": "v4.0", "urlMain": "https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/cow-war/", "urlDownload": "https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Inter-StateWarData_v4.0.csv", "dateAccessed": "2023-09-21", "datePublished": "2020-04-06", "license": {"url": "https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/", "name": "Correlates of War terms"}}, {"id": 298, "titleSnapshot": "War data - Intra-State Wars", "title": "War Data", "descriptionSnapshot": "Version 5.1 of the Intra\u2010state war data represents an update of version 5.0 which was published as A GUIDE TO INTRA\u2010STATE WARS: An Examination of Civil, Regional, and Intercommunal Wars, 1816\u20102014, by Jeffrey S. Dixon and Meredith Reid Sarkees. The primary attributes of Version 5.1 are that: it includes updated data on the intra-state wars from 1816-2014; and it includes wars that were omitted from the GUIDE due to publication errors. The dataset is composed of two files: Intra-state-Wars v.5.1.csv; and Intra\u2010state_state_participant_v5.1.csv. The first (Wars) provides summary information on each war, while the second file (state_participant) provides information on the war experience of each of the individual states involved.\n\nYou can find more notes at https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Intra-StateWars_Codebook.pdf", "description": "The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. The paper [\u201cThe COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)](https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/COW-Website-Typology-of-war-v4.pdf)\u201d by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of the changes since \u201cResort to Arms.\u201d In March 2010, the New COW War List was released. On June 30, 2010, the Non-State War Data (v4.0) became available. On October 28, 2010, the Intra-State War Data (v4.0) was released and on April 6, 2020 the Intra-State War Data (v5.1) became available online. On March 1, 2011, the Inter-State War Data (v4.0) became available online. Finally, we released the Extra-State War Data (v4.0) on December 8, 2011.", "producer": "Correlates of War", "citationFull": "Sarkees, Meredith Reid and Frank Wayman (2010). Resort to War: 1816 \u2013 2007. 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