Table 1. MRQAP Decomposition of Pairwise Correspondence Between Civilization and Communication Density.

	Model 0	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Intercept	-1.58*	-1.67*	-1.68*	5.97*	6.37*
Common Civilization	1.77*	1.28*	1.24*	0.15	0.10
Shared Language		2.10*	2.00*	1.89*	1.71*
Internat’l Alignment
Western Bloc			0.81*		0.97*
Eastern Bloc			0.61		-0.14
Non-Aligned			-0.42 +		-0.28
Colonial Ties			1.74*		1.55*
Commonwealth Ties			-0.05		0.07
Cultural Alignment
Religion				-0.17*	-0.15*
Ln Distance (km)				-0.82*	-0.87*
Shared Border				0.63*	0.52*
Model Fit
Adjusted R 2	0.11	0.19	0.22	0.33	0.35
F-statistic	502.1	456.0	160.7	381.4	217.5
dF	1, 4003	2, 4002	7, 3977	5, 3999	10, 3994

*p <. 01,

+ p <. 05,

N = 4004 country pairs.