ABSTRACT
It is interesting that the extensive and growing literature on the quantitative analysis of international relations has focused on the interactive events of wars or alliances from a largely non-interactive or nonrelational perspective. Wars and alliances occur because the interactions and consequently the relationships between certain nations reach thresholds. Yet most studies postulate national and systemic attributes as determinants of wars or alliances. Rummel’s (1968) extensive correlations between various national attributes and hostile foreign behavior, Rummel (1963), Tanter (1966), Wilkenfeld (1968), Haas (1968), Collins (1973), Burrowes and Spector (1973), Hazelwood (1973), Eberwein et al. (1979) analyses of the relationship between internal disruption and hostile foreign behavior, Bremer et al. (1973) and Singer and Small (1976) studies of the impact of population density and regime type on war behavior are but some of the many examples of attempts to look at interactive behavior from a non-interactive perspective.
