U.S. Policy Responses to Potential Transitions: A New Dataset of Political Protests, Conflicts, and Coups

by Sadika Hameed and Robert D. Lamb

Every three weeks, a major political crisis begins somewhere in the world. The United States intervenes in less than a fifth of them. But that is still a new U.S. intervention about every two months. And almost all of them are civilian interventions; less than a third involve the military. CSIS has released a new dataset of "potential transitions" worldwide, covering responses to 758 political crises between 1989 and 2010, including 134 civilian and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442224657
• ISBN13: 9781442224650
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.0"