6-415: The International Crisis Behavior ( ICB ) Project is a project that collates interstate crisis data from 1918 (the end of World War I) onward to 2019. The project was created in 1975 by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld . The International Crisis Behavior project contains data on international crises from 1918 onward (i.e., after the end of World War I). As of March 2023, the newest available data
12-483: A careful study based on relevant published materials. But despite that Furber comments that Brecher's approach lacks ground research and he is more a scholar who has lived among United Nations reports in libraries. Percival Spears sees that Brecher tends to too readily accept Indian arguments for Kashmir and Junagadh and relies on Alan Campbell Johnson who is seen as prejudiced in Pakistan. Spear also observes that Brecher has
18-621: A member of the Royal Society of Canada . Brecher died on 16 January 2022, at the age of 96. A review of Brecher's biography of Nehru called this book 'substantial, scholarly... the best single work available at present on this subject.' M. A. C. observes in Pakistan Horizon that Brecher's book, The Struggle for Kashmir , is a "painstaking but not a balanced study". The reviewer points out that there are examples of facts being misrepresented to Pakistan's disadvantage. Holden Furber calls it
24-540: Is ICB Version 15. The data for this version extends through 2019 and includes 496 international crises and 1,100 crisis actors. All data is available freely for download. Data from the ICB has been referenced in a number of academic papers studying the patterns of conflicts and international crises. It was also used in Chapter 3 of the book What Do We Know About War? edited by John A. Vasquez. The Forecasting Principles website lists
30-584: The ICB Project as an important data resource in the analysis of conflict and terror. Michael Brecher Michael Brecher (14 March 1925 – 16 January 2022) was a Canadian political scientist and teacher in Quebec. Brecher was born on 14 March 1925 to a Jewish family. He obtained his PhD in International Relations from Yale University in 1953, and joined the faculty of McGill University in 1954. He
36-653: Was R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science at McGill University until his retirement. His areas of research included; theory of crisis, conflict and war, protracted conflicts/enduring rivalries, foreign policy theory, international systems, the Middle East and South Asia international relations. He founded the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute to promote cultural and research exchanges between Canada and India. He retired after 69 years, thereafter becoming R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science Emeritus, and
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