The manytreaties::parties datacube is a list containing 5 datasets: IEADB, DESTA, GPTAD, TFDD, and GGO.
It is a work-in-progress, so please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.
partiesA dataset with observations and variables: .
A dataset with 15,463 observations and 10 variables: stateID, treatyID, Begin, End, Title, stateSignature, Signature, Rat, Force, and ieadbID.
A dataset with 7,466 observations and 8 variables: stateID, treatyID, Begin, Title, Signature, Force, StateName, and destaID.
A dataset with 2,192 observations and 6 variables: stateID, treatyID, Begin, Title, Signature, and Force.
A dataset with 1,832 observations and 6 variables: stateID, treatyID, Begin, Title, Signature, and tfddID.
For more information and references to each of the datasets used,
please use the manydata::call_sources() and manydata::compare_dimensions() functions.
Mitchell, Ron B. et al. 2020. 'What we know (and could know) about international environmental agreements'. Global Environmental Politics 20.1, pp. 103-121.
Duer, Andreas, Leonardo Baccini, and Manfred Elsig. 2014. 'The Design of International Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Database'. The Review of International Organizations 9.3, pp. 353-375.
World Bank Group. 2014. Global Preferential Trade Agreement Database (GPTAD). Online database. World Bank Group.
Oregon College of Earth and Oregon State University Atmospheric Science. 2021. Product of the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database.
Hollway, James, and Jael Tan. 'Global governance observations on parties to international agreements' (2025).
#> $IEADB
#> ---------------------------------------------------------
#> | Variable | Class | Obs | Missing | Miss % |
#> ---------------------------------------------------------
#> |stateID |character| 15463| 0| 0|
#> |treatyID |character| 15463| 0| 0|
#> |Begin |mdate | 15463| 0| 0|
#> |End |mdate | 870| 14593| 94.37|
#> |Title |character| 15463| 0| 0|
#> |stateSignature|mdate | 9666| 5797| 37.49|
#> |Signature |mdate | 15463| 0| 0|
#> |Rat |mdate | 9978| 5485| 35.47|
#> |Force |mdate | 15463| 0| 0|
#> |ieadbID |numeric | 15463| 0| 0|
#> ---------------------------------------------------------
#>
#>
#> $DESTA
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#> | Variable | Class | Obs | Missing | Miss % |
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#> |stateID |character| 7455| 11| 0.15|
#> |treatyID |character| 7466| 0| 0|
#> |Begin |mdate | 6836| 630| 8.44|
#> |Title |character| 7466| 0| 0|
#> |Signature |mdate | 6836| 630| 8.44|
#> |Force |mdate | 4602| 2864| 38.36|
#> |StateName |character| 7466| 0| 0|
#> |destaID |character| 7466| 0| 0|
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#>
#>
#> $GPTAD
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#> | Variable | Class | Obs | Missing | Miss % |
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#> |stateID |character| 2137| 55| 2.51|
#> |treatyID |character| 2192| 0| 0|
#> |Begin |mdate | 2093| 99| 4.52|
#> |Title |character| 2192| 0| 0|
#> |Signature |mdate | 1882| 310| 14.14|
#> |Force |mdate | 1907| 285| 13|
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#>
#>
#> $TFDD
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#> | Variable | Class | Obs | Missing | Miss % |
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#> |stateID |character| 1831| 1| 0.05|
#> |treatyID |character| 1832| 0| 0|
#> |Begin |mdate | 1730| 102| 5.57|
#> |Title |character| 1831| 1| 0.05|
#> |Signature |mdate | 1730| 102| 5.57|
#> |tfddID |numeric | 1831| 1| 0.05|
#> -------------------------------------------------------
#>
#>
#> $GGO
#> ------------------------------------------------------------
#> | Variable | Class | Obs | Missing | Miss % |
#> ------------------------------------------------------------
#> |stateID |character| 98320| 0| 0|
#> |treatyID |character| 98320| 0| 0|
#> |Title |character| 98320| 0| 0|
#> |Begin |mdate | 98320| 0| 0|
#> |End |mdate | 68402| 29918| 30.43|
#> |Signature |mdate | 98320| 0| 0|
#> |StateSignature |mdate | 80137| 18183| 18.49|
#> |StateRatification|mdate | 29013| 69307| 70.49|
#> |Force |mdate | 63700| 34620| 35.21|
#> |StateForce |mdate | 62574| 35746| 36.36|
#> |Term |Date | 1167| 97153| 98.81|
#> |StateEnd |mdate | 61895| 36425| 37.05|
#> |Coder |character| 98305| 15| 0.02|
#> |Comments |character| 4642| 93678| 95.28|
#> ------------------------------------------------------------| manytreaties | IEADB | DESTA | GPTAD | TFDD |
| stateID | country | Member | CCODE | |
| Signature | csig | year | Date.of.Signature | DateSigned |
| Rat | crat | |||
| Force | ceif3 | entryforceyear | Date.of.Entry.into.Force | |
| Force2 | ceif4 | |||
| End | tterm | |||
| Title | treatyname | name | Common.Name | DocumentName |
| Memberships | StateName | Signatories | ||
| destaID | base_treaty | |||
| tfddID | 2016Update ID | |||
| mitchID | ieadbID | |||
| DocType | inclusion |