Keeping Your Friends Close, But Acquaintances Closer

This is a package, documentation, and replication repository for:

Gannon, J. Andrés, and Daniel Kent. “Keeping Your Friends Close, but Acquaintances Closer: Why Weakly Allied States Make Committed Coalition Partners.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, (December 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002720978800.

The Paper:

Final print

Pre-print

The Authors:

• J Andres Gannon (University of California San Diego)

• Daniel Kent (The Ohio State University)

For any questions, please email: jagannon@ucsd.edu.

Replication Code and Analysis

Self Contained Package

All of the files necessary for reproducing our analysis are including in a self contained R package "ISAF." You can install the package ISAF from github with the instructions below:

if(!require(devtools)) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("CenterForPeaceAndSecurityStudies/ISAF")

R-Notebooks

The analysis and figures in the paper and statistical appendix are produced in a number of R Notebooks.

File Preparation - Dependent Variable:

• 01 Load Data for DV: Loads a novel dataset of national troop contributions to the ISAF operation in Afghanistan (2001-2014).
• 02 Clean Data for DV: Cleans and combines the newly created data

Summary Statistics:

• 03a Summary Stats: Troop Contributions
• 03b Summary Stats: Alliance Network
• 03c Summary Stats: General

File Preparation - Independent Variables:

• 04 Load and Clean Data for EV: Takes in data for the independent variable of interest and loads and merged all control variables.

Model:

• 05 Model: Statistical model that provides the main results of the paper.