Dataset on Confidence-Building Measures

The Dataset on Confidence-Building Measures contains data on 303 treaties and international organizations that have been identified as Confidence-Building Measures and were coded on a five-point scale of expected effectiveness. Data on CBMs were generated for all dyad-years between 1945 and 2006 in dyads with a history of interstate rivalry.

CBM-Dataset_1.0 (STATA) (if you use safari as a browser, click right mouse button and save as …. You will have to rename the downloaded file from "CBM-Dataset_1.0.dta.txt" into "CBM-Dataset_1.0.dta" – mozilla firefox and IE as browsers work fine)

The User's Manual provides a short introduction into the rationale behind the CBM dataset and describes the data generation process. It also contains an overview of our primary and aggregated CBM variables.

CBM-Dataset_Manual (pdf)

The following spreadsheet provides a more in depth look at our data and the data generation method behind it. It contains the full title of all the CBMs in the dataset, a quote of the part of the document that was crucial for coding on the five-point scale and the URL of the source or sources we used for coding.

CBM-Dataset_Codetable_1.0 (xls)