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This is volume 2 of the study to develop a systematic means for rank- ordering foreign countries on the basis of U.S. interest abroad. Six independent dimensions of the U.S. stake at the subtheater level were delineated, and ninety-three (93) countries were rank-ordered on each, as well as across an aggregate measure of all six. The same set of countries were evaluated in terms of the relative level of local, inter-state conflict behavior they had experienced over the period 1961-1973. The severity of thirteen years of conflict was measured with the help of a conflict continuum scale consisting of twenty-three generic types of conflict-interaction. Annual conflict scores were aggregated into a series of final, weighted conflict intensity indices for 1973. Country interest scores were juxtaposed with the pertinent conflict intensity indices in a display of ranked levels of U.S. security concern., See also ADA011216.

The study has two main objectives: first, to develop a systematic means for rank-ordering foreign countries on the basis of a series of explicit, quantifiable measures of the U.S. interest abroad, and, secondly, to provide a preliminary statement of the relative level of threat that U.S. subtheater interests may be exposed to as the result of local inter-state conflict.