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Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict
Advances in community detection reveal new insights into multiplex and multilayer networks. Less work, however, investigates the relationship between these communities and outcomes in social systems. We leverage these advances to shed light on the relationship between the cooperative mesostructure o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6795412/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31618276 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223040 |
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author | Pomeroy, Caleb Dasandi, Niheer Mikhaylov, Slava Jankin |
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description | Advances in community detection reveal new insights into multiplex and multilayer networks. Less work, however, investigates the relationship between these communities and outcomes in social systems. We leverage these advances to shed light on the relationship between the cooperative mesostructure of the international system and the onset of interstate conflict. We detect communities based upon weaker signals of affinity expressed in United Nations votes and speeches, as well as stronger signals observed across multiple layers of bilateral cooperation. Communities of diplomatic affinity display an expected negative relationship with conflict onset. Ties in communities based upon observed cooperation, however, display no effect under a standard model specification and a positive relationship with conflict under an alternative specification. These results align with some extant hypotheses but also point to a paucity in our understanding of the relationship between community structure and behavioral outcomes in networks. |
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spelling | pubmed-67954122019-10-20 Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict Pomeroy, Caleb Dasandi, Niheer Mikhaylov, Slava Jankin PLoS One Research Article Advances in community detection reveal new insights into multiplex and multilayer networks. Less work, however, investigates the relationship between these communities and outcomes in social systems. We leverage these advances to shed light on the relationship between the cooperative mesostructure of the international system and the onset of interstate conflict. We detect communities based upon weaker signals of affinity expressed in United Nations votes and speeches, as well as stronger signals observed across multiple layers of bilateral cooperation. Communities of diplomatic affinity display an expected negative relationship with conflict onset. Ties in communities based upon observed cooperation, however, display no effect under a standard model specification and a positive relationship with conflict under an alternative specification. These results align with some extant hypotheses but also point to a paucity in our understanding of the relationship between community structure and behavioral outcomes in networks. Public Library of Science 2019-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6795412/ /pubmed/31618276 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223040 Text en © 2019 Pomeroy et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pomeroy, Caleb Dasandi, Niheer Mikhaylov, Slava Jankin Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict |
title | Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict |
title_full | Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict |
title_fullStr | Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict |
title_full_unstemmed | Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict |
title_short | Multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict |
title_sort | multiplex communities and the emergence of international conflict |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6795412/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31618276 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223040 |
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