Resort to War utilizes Correlates of War data to analyze over 1,000 wars waged from 1816 to 2007. The editors highlight major patterns across eras and regions, including the advent of non-state ethnic wars, identifying which categories of war are becoming more or less prevalent over time, and connections between the different types of war. Based on authoritative, highly standardized, systematic coding methods, Resort to War is a definitive source for students and researchers examining patterns of international conflict; it is the essential guide to the data, trends, and context of these violent encounters.

Meredith Reid Sarkees is the President of Global Women's Leadership in International Security and serves as a consultant on women's leadership. She is also a faculty fellow at the Women & Politics Institute at American University. She and co-author Nancy E. McGlen wrote Women in Foreign Policy: the Insiders, a landmark study of women in the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon. She has been a long-time associate of the Correlates of War Project, and a co-author with its founder, J. David Singer.

Frank Wayman is professor of political science at the University of Michigan – Dearborn, president of the Faculty Research Club at the University of Michigan, and a long-time associate of the Correlates of War Project.

Political History of America's Wars

International Military Alliances, 1648-2008