The Quantitative History of The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Summary statistics about the conflict as a whole, such as number of hostile interactions fatalities, cooperative interactions, extent of economic costs, etc. Analytic evidence about relationships between or among processes in the conflict, such as between arms races and war, between alliances and conflict, between domestic and international conflict, between inter-Arab relations and Arab-Israeli relations, between economic changes and international conflict, and so forth.

The basic framework of this data collection centers on the conception that the cornerstone for understanding this conflict, and others, are the facts of the conflict. The basic events and processes that make up the history of the conflict are caused or influenced by factors that are internal to the states involved, that concern the relations with each other, and their relations with states outside the region. The events and processes of the conflict also influence the internal makeup of the Middle East states, their relations with each other, and their relations with outside actors.