International Crisis Behavior Project
The International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project is a project that collates interstate crisis data from 1918 (the end of World War I) onward to 2019.{{cite web|url=http://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/|title = International Crisis Behavior Project|accessdate = January 4, 2022|publisher = Duke University}} The project was created in 1975 by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld.{{cite web|url=https://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/project-info/|title = International Crisis Behavior Project - Project Info| date=29 July 2015 |accessdate = January 4, 2022|publisher = Duke University}}
Data
The International Crisis Behavior project contains data on international crises from 1918 onward (i.e., after the end of World War I). As of March 2023, the newest available data is ICB Version 15. The data for this version extends through 2019 and includes 496 international crises and 1,100 crisis actors. All data is available freely for download.
Reception
=Academic reception=
Data from the ICB has been referenced in a number of academic papers studying the patterns of conflicts and international crises.{{cite web|url = http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/icb/references/|title = ICB References & Publications|publisher = Center for International Development and Conflict Management|accessdate = June 24, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140420054311/http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/icb/references/|archive-date = April 20, 2014|url-status = dead}}{{cite journal|title = Systemism, Social Mechanisms, and Scientific Progress: A Case Study of the International Crisis Behavior Project|last = James|first = Patrick|doi = 10.1177/0048393104266438|journal = Philosophy of the Social Sciences|date = September 2004|volume = 34|issue = 3|pages = 352–370| s2cid=143144041 }}{{cite journal|doi = 10.1111/j.0020-8833.2005.00342.x|title = Leadership Style, Regime Type, and Foreign Policy Crisis Behavior: A Contingent Monadic Peace?|last = Keller|first = Jonathan W.| journal=International Studies Quarterly |date = April 25, 2005 |volume = 49|issue = 2|pages = 205–232}} It was also used in Chapter 3 of the book What Do We Know About War? edited by John A. Vasquez.{{cite book|title = What Do We Know about War?|last = Vasquez|first = John A.|date = March 8, 2012 |edition=second edition, paperback |isbn = 978-1442212640|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield}} The Forecasting Principles website lists the ICB Project as an important data resource in the analysis of conflict and terror.{{cite web|url=http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39&Itemid=246|title = Resources (for the Conflict and Terror Special Interest Group)|publisher = Forecasting Principles|accessdate = June 24, 2014}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/}}
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