The Correlates of War Project is pleased to announce that Paul Poast of the University of Chicago is the new Data Host for COW’s War Data, including Interstate, Intrastate, and Extrastate wars.

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This is the final update from longtime NMC hosts Michael Greig and Andrew Enterline, to whom COW and the discipline are grateful for years of work that has ensured reliable access to the CINC scores so ubiquitous in the study of war and peace. Michael and Andrew will each become Data Host Emeritus (about which more soon).

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