“…The BiG Dyads Database was inspired by Michel Foucher (1988, 2006, Kathy Staudt (2017) and other scholars using the dyad as a unit of analysis. These scholars, coming generally from international, peace, conflict, and war studies, created several datasets allowing for the analysis of boundaries from a dyadic perspective (see Starr, 1976;Gochman, 1991;Stinnett et al, 2002;Parris, 2004;Anderson & Gerber, 2004, 2007Donaldson, 2009;Weidmann et al, 2010;Lai, 2012;Chen et al, 2015;Staudt, 2017;Simmons & Kenwick, 2018;Owsiak et al, 2018). The International Border Agreements Dataset (IBAD) by Owsiak et al (2018) and the Correlates of War Project (COW) (see Glochman, 1991;Stinnett et al, 2002) are perhaps the most similar to the BiG Dyads Database.…”