  We draw on the data collected by the Integrated Crisis Early Warning System
on millions of international and regional public news stories, and this
system's indicators of the orientation toward a specific nation-state. We
construct the networks of international amicable and hostile relations among
nation-states that occur in specific time-periods in order to study the global
evolution of the network of such international appraisals. Our analysis
presents evidence of an evolution of the structure of this network and a model
of the probabilistic micro-dynamics of the alterations of international
appraisals during the 1995-2018 span of the available data. Our research
provides empirical findings on long-standing debates in the interdisciplinary
field of work on Structural Balance Theory. Also remarkably, we find that the
trajectory of the Frobenius norm of sequential transition probabilities, which
govern the evolution of international appraisals among nations, dramatically
stabilizes.
