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Getting to the Root of the Issue(s): Expanding the Study of Issues in MIDs (the MID-Issue Dataset, Version 1.0)

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  • Joshua Jackson
  • Andrew P. Owsiak
  • Gary Goertz
  • Paul F. Diehl

Abstract

Because existing issue classification schemes omit prominent issues (e.g., domestic armed conflict) or contain significant within-category heterogeneity, theorizing about the role of issues in international conflict processes has stagnated. Our project jump-starts it again, by independently—and systematically—reconceptualizing and gathering data on five issues connected to dyadic militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) during the period 1900–2010: land (borders), maritime (borders), islands, civil conflict, and coups. After conceptually introducing these issues and embedding them within a larger framework, we describe and apply our MID-Issue data. These efforts show that (i) the MID dataset’s issue classification scheme does not systematically capture our issues, (ii) events in 37.58% of dyadic MIDs connect to domestic armed conflict—a prevalence not on the field’s radar, (iii) some factors promote issue-based international conflict, but only via indirect channels, and (iv) significant value even derives from a further conceptualization of “territorial issues†(broadly defined).

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  • Joshua Jackson & Andrew P. Owsiak & Gary Goertz & Paul F. Diehl, 2022. "Getting to the Root of the Issue(s): Expanding the Study of Issues in MIDs (the MID-Issue Dataset, Version 1.0)," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 66(7-8), pages 1514-1542, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:66:y:2022:i:7-8:p:1514-1542
    DOI: 10.1177/00220027221080967
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