Data Analysis, run on the United Nations General Assembly voting dataset in order to analyze Armenia's voting behavior as well as relationships with other countries.

1. ARMENIA’SVOTING
BEHAVIOR IN UN
(Analysis on R ‘unvotes’ package)
Liana Mehrabyan

2. The Package
Datasets un_votes un_roll_calls un_roll_calls_issues
Observations 711275 5356 711275
Variables rcid (Roll Call ID)
country
vote (yes/no/abstain)
rcid
session
importantvote
date
unres (resolution code)
amend(vote was on an
amendment)
para (vote was on a
paragraph)
short (short description)
descr (long description)
rcid
short name
issue (descriptive issue
name)
Provides the voting history of countries in the UN General Assembly (1946-2015)

3. Armenia’s voting records
Abstain No Yes
301 55 1123
Top 10 Abstaining Countries
Dataset of 1946-2015
#1 Federal Republic of Germany 41%
#2 France 33%
#3 Italy 30%
#4 Japan 30%
#5 Belgium 29%
#6 Georgia 29%
#7 United Kingdom 29%
#8 Austria 28%
#9 Portugal 28%
#10 Federated States of Micronesia 28%

4. #32 Armenia 28%
Top 10 Abstaining Countries
Dataset of 1991-2015
#1 Czechoslovakia 48%
#2Tonga 43%
#3 South Sudan 41%
#4 Federated States of Micronesia 41%
#5 Georgia 40%
#6 Republic of Korea 39%
#7 Russian Federation 39%
#8 Marshall Islands 37%
#9 Japan 37%
#10 Cameroon 35%

5. Voting Relationship of ‘Suspicious’ Countries
Function un_agree

6. Countries with most similar behavior
Country Percentage
#1 Argentina 82.26134
#2 Azerbaijan 81.39194
#3Tajikistan 81.34811
#4 Belarus 81.09418
#5 Kazakhstan 80.40588

7. Countries with least similar behavior
Country Percentage
#6 Nauru 50.84175
#5 Marshall Islands 46.70165
#4 Federated Stated of Micronesia 42.57588
#3 Palau 30.02646
#2 Israel 26.94693
#1 USA 21.17727

8. Voting Relationship of ‘Suspicious’ Countries

9. Armenia’s voting behavior by presidential
terms: Pro-US or Pro-Russia?
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9.4 9.8
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Armenia-United States
Ter-Petrosyan Kocharyan Sargsyan
69
78
76
64
66
68
70
72
74
76
78
80
Armenia-Russia
Ter-Petrosyan Kocharyan Sargsyan

10. Armenia’s voting behavior by presidential
terms
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89 87
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Armenia-Azerbaijan
Ter-Petrosyan Kocharyan Sargsyan

11. Time Series by Russian PresidentialTerms

12. Sharp decrement in the time series

13. Time Series by US PresidentialTerms

15. Armenia’s BehaviorTowards Issues
UN Issues
Palestinian conflict
Colonialism
Human rights
Arms control and disarmament
Nuclear weapons and nuclear material
Economic development

16. Armenia’s BehaviorTowards Issues

17. Why is Armenia voting “No” to Human Rights?

18. Independence ofVariables
The Chi Square test
importantvote-vote
dependent
armpres-vote
dependent

19. Text Mining on un_roll_calls Dataset

20. Wordclouds

21. 100 Most FrequentWords

22. Words with 600+ Frequency

23. “Draft”: One of the Most FrequentWords

24. Top 100 FrequentWords After Removing SpecificWords

25. Thank you for your attention!