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J. David Singer

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., NYU

6743 Haven Hall
(734) 763-6590
jdsinger@umich.edu

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Much of Professor Singer's work falls within the Correlates of War Project which he began in 1964 and which continues to the present day, year, decade, etc. In addition to a data-based study of change, continuity, and war in the global system, 1816-2001, there is the continuing quest for those systemic and state-level factors that, in combination with dispute behavior, characterize the run-up to war. Finally, the COW project has a 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. seminar every Friday and interested colleagues and graduate students are invited to attend.

Selected Publications

  • Nations at War: A Scientific Study of International Conflict, 1816-1990, with Daniel Geller. Cambridge University Press, 1998 & 2000.
  • "Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding Rules and Empirical Patterns," with Stuart Bremer and Daniel Jones, in Conflict Management and Peace Science, Summer 1997.
  • "Civil War in the Post-Colonial World, 1946-1992" with Errol Henderson in Journal of Peace Research, May 2000, 37/3, pp 275-299.
  • "The Etiology of Inter-state War: A Natural History Approach" in John Vasquez, ed. What do we Know about War?, Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, pp 3-21.
  • "Genetic & Cultural Evolution: Implications for International Security Policies" in Somit & Peterson, eds. Human Nature & Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
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