The Electronic World Treaty Index: Collecting the Population of International Agreements in the 20th Century

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Paul Poast

University of Chicago - Department of Political Science

Michael James Bommarito

273 Ventures; Licensio, LLC; Stanford Center for Legal Informatics; Michigan State College of Law; Bommarito Consulting, LLC

Daniel Martin Katz

Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law; Bucerius Center for Legal Technology & Data Science; Stanford CodeX - The Center for Legal Informatics; 273 Ventures

Date Written: Feburary 15, 2010

Abstract

We set out to create the Electronic World Treaty Index (eWTI), a comprehensive list of both bilateral and multilateral treaties formed during the 20th century. This project augments Rohn's World Treaty Index by integrating several other depositories of treaties, such as the League of Nations Treaty Series and the United Nations Treaty Series. Once complete, this digital dataset will allow scholars to quickly and easily consider the universe of treaty-making over the course of the 20th century. Though other scholars have collected and coded various treaty data, prior projects have focused on a specific treaty topic (alliances for Leeds et al., 2003), a random sub-sample of specific treaty categories (Koremenos, Lipson and Snidal, 2001) or limit their search to multilateral agreements (Hoffman and Denemark, 2008). Our Electronic World Treaty dataset, on the other hand, will contain the state of world and regional relations across all cross-sections of agreements in the 20th century.

Suggested Citation

Poast, Paul and Bommarito, Michael James and Katz, Daniel Martin, The Electronic World Treaty Index: Collecting the Population of International Agreements in the 20th Century (Feburary 15, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2652760 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2652760

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