World Event/Interaction Survey Handbook.

Abstract : The world interaction survey is, in the first instance, a data gathering program focused on one dimension of international politics. That is the dimension of attempted national control in international political affairs. Each data item is a report of an international event. The purpose in gathering such reported acts committed cross-nationally by the upper level of officialdom of national regimes or by major political counter-elites is to facilitate analyses of structures and processes of action and response at the control level of international politics.