State system membership

Create data based on the Gleditsch & Ward (G&W) or Correlates of War (COW) state system memberships lists. This is useful as a template for merging other sources of data that have conflicting sets of states.

Details

See static docs at https://andybeger.com/states and the source code at https://www.github.com/andybega/states

References

Gleditsch, Kristian S. & Michael D. Ward. 1999. ``Interstate System
  Membership: A Revised List of the Independent States since 1816.''
  International Interactions 25: 393-413.

Correlates of War Project. 2017. ``State System Membership List, v2016.''
  Online, http://correlatesofwar.org

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/andybega/states

• https://www.andybeger.com/states/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/andybega/states/issues

Author

Maintainer: Andreas Beger adbeger@gmail.com (ORCID)