Replication data for: Reputation and Interstate Conflict

In international politics, states learn from the behavior of other nations, including the reputations states form through their actions in the international system. I develop a model of how states process this information and examine how this learning affects international conflict. The model builds off of cognitive balance theory and foreign policy learning models, and breaks new ground in its ability to provide a contextual assessment of reputation in world politics. I then investigate whether a dyad is more likely to experience conflict if at least one of the states has a reputation for hostility. This hypothesis is tested empirically across all dyads in the international system from 1817-2000. The results indicate that states do engage in this learning behavior, and that the information generated by extra-dyadic interaction of states has a significant bearing upon the likelihood of dyadic conflict.