Non-State Wars, CoW

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Binary
Value labels	0 = Not at war 1 = In at least one war during that year
Technical name	war_nonstate_entities_cow
Category	Violent Conflicts and Colonial Dependencies
Label	"Involved in a non-state war during that year"
Related indicators	Non-State Wars Names, CoW Non-State Wars Deaths, CoW

If at any point during the year the state was involved in an non-state war.

Coding rules

"State" includes societies prior to state formation dating back to 1818. For example, the state of "Bavaria" in 1866 is coded as "Germany", and these wars only coded if one or both entities involved are parts of what becomes a state or factions within a state.

Bibliographic info

Citation: Correlates of War

Related publications: related publications

Misc

Project manager(s): project managers

Data release: data release

Revisions: revisions

Sources

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