Related Plaftorms

This (growing) section provides an overview of similar platforms like RIKS; platforms that provide quantitative and/or qualitative data that are helpful in understanding the various aspects of regional integration processes.

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The vision of an integrated, poverty-free, prosperous, and peaceful Asia and Pacific underlies initiatives to support regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in the region. Changing world economic realities have highlighted the importance of closer economic cooperation in the region and the need within ADB for a coherent and strategically focused approach to RCI.

Building on its previous initiatives on regional cooperation, ADB has developed a coherent RCI strategy by consolidating its efforts since the early 1990s. On 25 July 2006, the ADB Board of Directors endorsed the RCI Strategy, in which ADB plays an active role as a catalyst, coordinator, and knowledge leader of RCI in Asia and the Pacific. The RCI Strategy has four pillars:

• Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation Programs (Cross-border Infrastructure and Software)
• Trade and Investment Cooperation and Integration
• Monetary and Financial Cooperation and Integration
• Cooperation in Regional Public Goods

The Correlates of War project seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations.

Key principles of the project include a commitment to standard scientific principles of replication, data reliability, documentation, review, and the transparency of data collection procedures.

More specifically, we are committed to the free public release of data sets to the research community, to release data in a timely manner after data collection is completed, to provide version numbers for data set and replication tracking, to provide appropriate dataset documentation, and to attempt to update, document, and distribute follow-on versions of datasets where possible. We intend to use our website as the center of our data distribution efforts, to serve as central site for collection of possible error information and questions, to provide a forum for interaction with users of Correlates of War data, and as a way for the international relations community to contribute to the continuing development of the project.

The mission of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC) is to promote the comparative examination of the human impact of various aspects of regional integration across geographic areas and time periods through the creation of a cross-regional and interdisciplinary network.

Moreover, the research conducted through this consortium could eventually support social action projects in local communities through improved understanding of evolving political and economic contexts.

Design of Trade Agreements (DESTA) is a collaborative research project which aims to collect systematic data on the design of preferential trade agreements that have been signed since 1945. It provides information on general features and specific commitments in PTAs.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Based in Stockholm, SIPRI is regularly ranked among the most respected think tanks worldwide.

• conflicts, arms transfers and military expenditure
• hard facts on states and international organizations
• economic and social statistics
• chronologies