Relax, Tensors Are Here: Dependencies in International Processes

Understand

Previous models of international conflict have suffered two shortfalls.

• They tended not to embody dynamic changes, focusing rather on static slices of behavior over time.
• These models have also been empirically evaluated in ways that assumed the independence of each country, when in reality they are searching for the interdependence among all countries.
• We illustrate a solution to these two hurdles and evaluate this new, dynamic, network based approach to the dependencies among the ebb and flow of daily international interactions using a newly developed, and openly available, database of events among nations.