American Foreign Policy and Global Opinion

Who Supported the War in Afghanistan

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6284547
AutoresBenjamin E Goldsmith (0000-0002-3247-3174, School of Policy University of Newcastle, Australia), Yusaku Horiuchi (0000-0003-0295-4089, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government Australian National University), Takashi Inoguchi (Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Public Policy Chuo University)
Ano2005
Volume49
Fascículo3
Páginas408-429
Data de publicação2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022002705276506
OpenAlexW1974334467
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas51

What affects global public opinion about U.S. foreign policy? The authors examine this question using a cross-national survey conducted during and immediately after the 2001 U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. They propose three models of global public opinion— interests, socialization, and influence—and discuss their empirical validity. Socialization variables (e.g., Muslim population and past terrorist incidents) tend to exhibit significant effects. A variable measuring shared security interests, North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership, has significant effects in favor of U.S. policy, but other mutual defense pacts with the U.S. have a backlash effect. Shared economic interests, represented by levels of trade, also have a positive influence. Variables measuring conflicting security interests as well as those measuring U.S. efforts to influence foreign public opinion have insignificant or weak effects

Economics · Foreign policy · North Atlantic Treaty · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Public opinion · Socialization · Sociology · Terrorism · Variables · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence