title: Organizing peace: an algorithmic analysis of four centuries of international law and the decline of war
abstract: There are more than 200 million words of agreement that collectively give form to the international system, organize relations between states, and which cumulatively, and ever more closely, bind its peoples together. Over the last four centuries, these words have been negotiated, debated, challenged, refuted, clarified, and made legally and mutually understandable before becoming formally enshrined in one of the 79,287 international treaties signed during this period. Simultaneously, and despite