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Foreign conflict behavior data covering long periods of time are urgently needed for the scientific investigation of international conflict. Except in the case of the most violent behavior, war, such data in aggregate form generally are not available to researchers.

This study is concerned with the relationship between the domestic and foreign conflict behavior of nations. Specifically, it is postulated that two key variables, type of nation and nature of conflict, determine the nature of this relationship. A population of 74 nations are divided into three groups, personalist, centrist, and polyarchic. A correlation analysis is then performed on these groups for all possible pairs of domestic conflict behavior dimensions - 'turmoil', 'revolutionary,' 'subversive' - and foreign conflict behavior dimensions - 'war,' 'diplomatic,' 'belligerency.' Stage 2 of the analysis, using raw data and covering a period from 1955 to 1960, facilitat s the investigation of time lags as a possible additional factor. The results of the study indicate that the postulated relationships do exist, with joe of nation constituting perhaps the key element in the nature of this relationship.

Data for the yrs 1946-1959 on 13 variables measuring various kinds of violent & nonviolent, soc & pol'al conflict within 113 countries were inter-r'ed & factor analyzed through oblique rotation. Comparison of the results with that of other studies suggests that: (1) intra-nation conflict behavior is highly structured in terms of independent clusters of activities; (2) a spontaneous kind of conflict behavior reflected in riots & demonstrations, ie, turnoil, is a major dimension of intra-nation conflict behavior; (3) independently of a turmoil dimension, intra-nation conflict behavior also involves planned behavior represented by revolution & subversion dimensions, or their combination into one internal war dimension. AA.

The growing importance of third world countries in the international system brings their potential for conflict and cooperation to the forefront. Given the fact that the East-West conflict tends to intensify the North-South conflict, a general tendency toward more warlike antagonisms is becoming evident within the Third World. In view of this trend, Latin America as a region becomes particularly interesting; conditions here have always led to conflict situations between the various countries, but specific historical factors seem to have kept these conflicts from erupting to the same extent that they have in other regions of the Third World.Conflicts between two states do not suddenly occur. Their virulence rather gradually develops from a mixture of border conflicts, historical animosities, economic disputes, differences in political systems, arms races, and certainly, the influence of the big powers.

A replication of an earlier work (R. J. Rummel, 'The Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations,' General Systems Yrbk, 1963, 8, 1-50) to obtain additional evidence relative to the dimensions of conflict behavior (CB) & the relationship between domestic & foreign CB. Data were collected across 83 nations on 9 domestic & 13 foreign measures of CB for 1958, 1959, & 1960. From a factor analysis of these data there emerged 2 domestic dimensions: turmoil, & internal war-& 3 foreign dimensions-war, diplomatic, & belligerency. The turmoil dimension compares favorably with a similar dimension derived from the 1955-57 data, while the internal war dimension subsumes the revolutionary & subversive dimensions from the 1955-57 study. The 3 1958-60 foreign dimensions are quite similar to the 3 derived from the 1955-57 foreign measures. From a factor analysis of domestic & foreign CB, the domestic measures separated themselves from the foreign variables, implying only a small relationship between the 2. This relationship was investigated still further with multiple regression. Representative variables were selected on the basis of high r with the dimensions, & those which indexed domestic & foreign dimensions were regressed upon each other to discover the relationship between domestic & foreign CB. The regression yielded a small relationship that increased with a time lag. 3 error variables were used to discover the extent to which systematic bias might distort the conclusions. 2 of these, N of cards per nation in Deadline Data & N of embassies or legations in a country, were found to r highly with the protest variable & also to have high pattern values on the diplomatic dimension. It was concluded that the level of world interest in a nation is related to the tendency for a nation's protests & (to a lesser extent) its expulsion of ambassadors to be reported. Hence, propositions about these 2 conflict measures should be qualified to the extent that the data of nations in which little interest is expressed may not be included in the is from which the propositions are inferred. Modified AA.

In this article we attempt to replicate the hypothesis tested by Rummel and others that external and internal conflict are unrelated. We do this using data for 125 nations for the years 1966-1967. As did Rummel, we use exploratory factor analysis and regression analysis; in addition, we also employ confirmatory factor analysis. Results from confirmatory factor analysis contradict Rummel and reveal moderately strong correlations between internal and external conflict factors. Regression analysis and partial correlations, however, show that zero-order cross-country correlations between internal and external conflict are reduced to insignificance when a control variable, population size, is introduced in the analysis.