AssociationAnalysis between Trade and Diplomacy Application of Social Network Analysis

Association study between two or more sociomatrices is an important area in social network analysis. In this paper we surveyed history of this issue and have used them in our case of world’s trade and diplomacy relations. Although we have reported results of the other researcher’s work, we suggest our method and report results emerged from adopting it in our case of trade and diplomacy relations. Specifically we found that relationship among trade and diplomacy is significant and multiplexity and exchange effects at macro (for entire network) and micro (for each country) levels can be measured.

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Social Network Analysis(SNA) , blockmodeling , Role and Positional Analysis , Likelihood ratio statistics , Clustering , K-Means , exponential random graph model , p1 model , mantel test , permutation model , netperm , multiplexity and exchange patterns