GIS data

The three documents below contain the data sets found to be most useful to scholars who have asked for my GIS generated border data set.

For those of you who are thinking about using this data in your research here is a brief overview of the three documents. The first, "ISP" is the text of a short piece that was published in International Studies Perspective. It describes the data sets used in this project, with two tables providing examples. You can, in essence, use this piece as your variable codesheet. The “GIS Basic Border Data” document provides the basic data for each of the 301 borders: length, area (under the 50 kilometer buffers) and percentage of border that falls under each of the four categories used for ease of interaction, salience, and vitalness. The last document, "Waves" presents the "weighted averages" for each of the 301 contiguous borders. Each border has a weighted average for ease of interaction, salience, and vitalness.

I would be most interested in the results you get using the data in your analyses. I only ask that in some way you acknowledge me/my articles as the source of the data and note the following sources of my support: "a University of South Carolina Research & Productive Scholarship Award (#13570-E120), which in turn was instrumental in securing a National Science Foundation grant (SBR-9731056) to continue the project.”

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