Many people have an instinctive sense that American foreign policy has come to rely too much on military action. Now, there's data. Professors Sidita Kushi and Monica Toft of the Military Intervention Project have produced a massive new dataset of nearly 400 cases of the threat, display, or use of force by the United States abroad. We talk about the patterns of intervention, including an acceleration with the end of the Cold War and the emergence of unipolarity. We also dig into the challenges of measuring intervention. 

You can read their article launching the dataset and presenting initial findings here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00220027221117546

You can see the supplemental data here: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Supplemental_Material_-_Introducing_the_Military_Intervention_Project_A_New_Dataset_on_US_Military_Interventions_1776_2019/20464279?backTo=/collections/Introducing_the_Military_Intervention_Project_A_New_Dataset_on_US_Military_Interventions_1776_2019/6140734

You can learn more about the Military Intervention Project here: https://sites.tufts.edu/css/