Replication Data for: The Rise and Fall of the Confucian Long Peace: Regional Conflict Management in East Asia (1598–1894)

Building on previous studies of a Long Confucian Peace, this article asks whether a Confucian peace indeed existed among China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam and if so, why? It employs a novel database that tracks three types of conflict—Confucian, foreign, and internal—and three types of peace events—negative, neutral, and positive, spanning a newly defined period of 1598 to 1894. We argue that a long peace existed among the four Confucian states beginning when they stopped fighting each other in 1598 and ending when conflict resumed in 1894. This study offers a dynamic, and regional understanding of the Confucian Long Peace, elucidating how states with shared values navigated and managed their relations, through four distinct periods marked by fluctuations in conflict and peace. Our major finding is that the Confucian peace was often tenuous and grounded in mutual-shared interests rather than a spirit of communal, or cultural cooperation.