Winners and losers in economic development: Attributes which explain international conflict and cooperation

Attributes that are associated with economic growth, power development and political system is important to understanding the relationship of economic development and international conflict and cooperation. Those associations are testable using Attribute Theory. Economic growth is expected to suppress conflict and promote cooperation. Democratic growth is expected to suppress conflict and promote cooperation. Power growth is expected to foster conflict and suppress cooperation.; Each of 144 nations is scored on demographic and developmental variables in the World Bank data set. Those same 144 nations are also scored on 22 "conflict" and "cooperation" items, derived from the WEIS and Vincent scales. Rank order correlations are calculated among the variables; factor analyses were performed on the data subsets (Attributes and Behaviors) utilizing Spearman's rho. A time frame of 1970--1989 was adopted for the period of study. The factor analysis of the 46-variable data matrix yielded a reduced-dimensional structure for the predictor variables, with four or five "factors" accounting for a large proportion of the variance. Correlation results will allow the testing of hypotheses derived from the literature as well as an evaluation of how economic growth occurs. The analysis will also clarify how such development changes affect international conflict and cooperation.