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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Patrick J. McGowan
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Robert M. Rood
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1976

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1 We made these data available to Mr. Lawson at his request, a fact he fails to acknowledge.

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3 Ibid., pp. 501–502.

4 The errors are: (1) our alliances number 55, not 54; (2) the Austria-Prussia pair has 21, not 20 alliances, and (3) the Austria-Great Britain pair has 12, not 13. These correct figures are used in the new analysis we report in this communication.

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11 That is, the patterned relationships of international conflict (magnitude of war within dyads) certainly are “specific interests which divide nations.”

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