The use of semantic dimensions in the scaling of international events

The following study is one consequence of an on‐going attempt by the authors to achieve a more comprehensive understanding and expression of data relating to international events. This paper reports on the collection of semantic differential scores for 250 different types of nation‐state behaviors and then demonstrates how those ratings were used to reconstruct the domestic and international scales in COPDAB so that the scale point categories were internally consistent and in a linear relationship to one another.