¹ I wish to express my appreciation for the considerable effort and great help of my teaching assistant, Phil King, in the survey and analysis upon which this memo is based.

² This memo is not intended to be a research report. The small sample size and the lack of systematic comparison of the results with similar analyses would not support such a detailed exposition. Rather, this memo should be considered as an attempt to share informally some interesting results – to be suggestive and perhaps provocative without getting involved in a presentation of the research design, marginals, cross-tabulations, and factor matrices that would be required by a full treatment.

³ The course was titled “War and Peace” and except for some data collection, dealt with the subject in an historical and traditional manner. Methodology or quantitative methods played virtually no role in the course, nor was it assumed that students had any such background.

⁴ The Dimensionality of Nations project is attempting to delineate the major patterns of international relations, particularly international conflict, and to determine how these patterns relate to the differences and similarities between nations. By involving students in the project, it was hoped that they would gain some feel for the nature of a scientific research project on conflict.

⁵ Each one of the following seven points is an interpretation of a separate orthogonally rotated dimension.

⁶ One student commented that he decided I did not know much, and thus did not do the reading. This student was a Marxist, an activist and in strong disagreement with much of what I said. He was also a prime mover in many class discussions.