10.7910/DVN/TOFZ09 Petersohn, Ulrich Ulrich Petersohn University of Liverpool Harvard Dataverse 2022 Social Sciences Commercial Military Actor Database Mercenary Private Military and Security Companies Petersohn, Ulrich Ulrich Petersohn University of Liverpool 2022-03-04 2022-03-04 698693 134550 356611 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet application/pdf 1.0 Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The Commercial Military Actor Database (CMAD) is able to support research on civil war and commercial military actors. First, the CMAD covers all civil wars from 1980 to 2016 across all of the world’s regions except Europe, which enables the investigation of long-term regional and global trends. Second, the CMAD encompasses the corporate market segment and mercenary outfits, which facilitates the analysis of how those actors have impacted conflicts differently. Third, containing detailed information about the relationships behind exchanges, the CMAD allows users to disaggregate market exchanges.