Abstract
This paper begins with the assumption that theoretical elaboration and empirical testing must go hand in hand if progress is to be made in the science of international relations. The purpose is to report on the results of testing attribute, social field, and status-field theories, utilizing international relations conflict and cooperation data generated in the early 1 960s.' Rummel has been primarily responsible for the development of the equations which stand behind attribute, social field, and status-field theories. His elaborations can be found in the various DON Research Reports and elsewhere. A concise mathematical treatment of attribute versus social field theory is given in Rummel (1 969a), and the equations of status-field theory may be found in Rummel (1971). A recent application of attribute theory may be found in Vincent (1972a), which
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