TY - JOUR AU - AB - Although strategic interaction is at the heart of most international relations theory, it has largely been missing from much empirical analysis in the field. Typical applications of logit and probit to theories of international conflict generally do not capture the structure of the strategic interdependence implied by those theories. I demonstrate how to derive statistical discrete choice models of international conflict that directly incorporate the theorized strategic interaction. I show this for a simple crisis interaction model and then use Monte Carlo analysis to show that logit provides estimates with incorrect substantive interpretations as well as fitted values that can be far from the true values. Finally, I reanalyze a well-known game-theoretic model of war, Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman's (1992) international interaction game. My results indicate that there is at best modest empirical support for their model. TI - Strategic Interaction and the Statistical Analysis of International Conflict JF - American Political Science Review DO - 10.2307/2585396 DA - 1999-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/crossref/strategic-interaction-and-the-statistical-analysis-of-international-GllEKOeXhG SP - 279 EP - 297 VL - 93 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -