World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) Project, 1966-1978

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Label

World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) Project, 1966-1978

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• McClelland, Charles

Author

• McClelland, Charles

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• NATO
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• South East Asia Treaty Organization
• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• Warsaw Pact
• diplomacy
• event
• Arab Israeli conflict
• international conflict
• international cooperation
• international organizations
• kidnapping
• nations
• terrorism
• world politics
• foreign affairs
• Arab Israeli relations
• International agencies
• International relations

Genre

• event

Summary

The WEIS Project dataset is a record of the flow of action and response between countries (as well as non-governmental actors, e.g., NATO) reflected in public events reported daily in the New York Times from January 1966 through December 1978. The WEIS Project began under the direction of Charles McClelland at the University of Southern California as a research project on international system characteristics and processes. The unit of analysis in the dataset is the event/interaction, referring to words and deeds communicated between nations, such as threats of military force. Each event/interaction is a daily report of an international event. There are 98,043 events included in this dataset. Coded for each event are the actor, target, date, action category, and arena. Also provided are brief textual descriptions for each event