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Networks, Dyads, and the Social Relations Model*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2013

Cassy Dorff  and
Michael D. Ward
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Abstract

Quantitative international relations scholarship has focused on analysis of the so-called dyad. Few studies have given serious thought to the definition of a dyad, or to the implications that flow from such a conceptualization. This article argues that the current approach to dyadic analysis is necessarily incomplete and at times induces incoherent pictures of the ebb and flow of interactions among actors in global politics and economics. It presents the Social Relations Model as a systematic way of analyzing the dependencies inherent in dyadic data. The study uses this model to examine militarized interstate disputes from 1816 to 2001, the trade network of 2000 and reciprocity between enemies in the treatment of prisoners of war.

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Political Science Research and Methods , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , December 2013 , pp. 159 - 178
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Copyright © The European Political Science Association 2013 

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Cassy Dorff is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 27707 (cassy.dorff@duke.edu). Michael D. Ward is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 27707 (michael.d.ward@duke.edu). We thank our lab colleagues at Duke for feedback and comments, especially Nils Metternich, Andreas Beger, & Florian Hollenbach. All mistakes are our own.

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