Theoretical and empirical models often ignore the interdependencies among the actors and actions that comprise world politics at the same time they seek to understand it. As a result Virtually all extant, empirical work proceeds by assuming the absence of any interdependencies among the actors and interactions. Yet, absent dependencies, these data would not interesting from a world politics perspective. As a way of addressing some of these important dependencies in the network of interactions world politics, we use a latent space approach (Hoff, Raftery, Handcock, 2002).