Tianyu Fan

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University

Assistant Professor of Economics
CUHK, from 2027

Tianyu Fan

Global Geopolitical Events Database

The Global Geopolitical Events (GGE) Database measures bilateral geopolitical alignment using historical political events identified, classified, and scored with large language models.

193 countries
UN member states
1950–2024
Annual coverage
18,528 pairs
Bilateral relationships

Available data

The current release contains bilateral geopolitical alignment scores for all 18,528 country pairs over 1950–2024, a panel of 1,389,600 country-pair-year observations. The scores draw on an underlying database of 833,485 political events.

Version 1.0, June 2026. Alignment scores are available as a compressed CSV. Complete event-level records are forthcoming.

If you use these data, please cite both associated papers:

BibTeX citations are available in the repository.

For questions or access to additional data, contact tianyufan.econ@gmail.com.