Reconstruction of Oliver Benson's "Simple Diplomatic Game"

This data collection contains a revised version of the Simple Diplomatic Game, one of the first all-computer simulations in the international relations field developed by Oliver Benson in 1959. It represents an early attempt to articulate a number of "loose" assumptions about international behavior into a set of computer instructions such that high-speed computing equipment can be used to simulate a variety of international crises situations. The earlier computer simulation program is reconstructed in this study for 25 nations in 1965 for the purpose of examining the advantages and disadvantages inherent in these simulations and gauging what might be expected of computer simulation methodology in general. The main data matrix contains nine categories of indicators of natural and technical resources used in computing the war potential of each nation, values for nine indicators of aggressiveness used for computing the propensity-to-act index, a numeric code (0-4) indicating alliance membership, a one or zero indicating the nuclear or non-nuclear status of each country, a tally of losses suffered by each coalition member as a result of an unsuccessful initiative on the part of the coalition leader, a statistic for total exports and imports for each country, degrees of longitude for a major industrial area in each country, and degrees of latitude for these industrial areas. Benson's simulation is reprogrammed in this collection in BASIC computer language for use in an on-line, time-sharing environment. Seven additional nations were added and the database for all nations was updated.本数据集收录了经修订的《简易外交博弈》（Simple Diplomatic Game）版本，该模型是1959年由奥利弗·本森（Oliver Benson）开发的国际关系领域首批全计算机仿真模型之一。本模型属于早期尝试，旨在将若干关于国际行为的“松散”假设转化为计算机指令集，从而可借助高速计算设备模拟各类国际危机场景。本研究针对1965年的25个国家场景，重构了该早期计算机仿真程序，旨在剖析此类仿真模型固有的优劣性，并总体评估计算机仿真方法论的应用前景。主数据矩阵包含九类用于计算各国战争潜力的自然与技术资源指标、九类用于计算行动倾向指数的攻击性指标、一组用于标识联盟归属的数值代码（0-4）、一组用于标注各国核/非核状态的0-1二元变量、各联盟成员因联盟领导者发起的行动失败所遭受损失的统计值、各国进出口总额统计数据、各国主要工业区的经度坐标，以及上述工业区的纬度坐标。本数据集将本森的仿真模型以BASIC编程语言重新编写，以适配在线分时运行环境。本次更新新增了7个国家，并更新了所有国家的数据库信息。