StratREP integrates large-scale text analysis of national security strategies, surveys, and disaggregated defense spending to examine grand strategy. The dataset likely contains a global collection of NSS documents and related material data, with a focused analysis on Europe and the transatlantic community. It was authored by Jordan Becker and last updated on May 12, 2026.
Use Cases
- Quantify alignment between strategic discourse and material behavior based on integrated text and spending data.
- Model changes in threat perceptions based on text analysis of national security strategies.
- Analyze the relationship between public opinion and defense resource allocation based on survey and spending data.
- Compare strategic cultures across countries based on text-as-data analysis of NSS documents.
Strengths
- Integrates three distinct data types: text corpora, survey data, and financial records.
- Focuses analysis on Europe and the transatlantic community, providing regional specificity.
- Last updated May 12, 2026, suggesting recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Combines text analysis of national security strategies, surveys, and defense spending data.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-12 17:07:32; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Global collection with analysis focus on Europe and the transatlantic community.