Arab Muslim Attitudes Toward the West

Cultural, Social, and Political Explanations

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11895837
AutoresPeter A Furia (Wake Forest University, autor correspondente), Russell Lucas (0000-0002-9081-1549, Florida International University), Russell E Lucas
Ano2008
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas186-207
Data de publicação2008-06-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Interactions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-0629 • E-ISSN: 1547-7444
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03050620802168797
OpenAlexW2071458180
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas42

We utilize pooled data from Zogby International's 2002 Zogby, James. 2002. What Arabs Think: Values Beliefs and Concerns, Utica NY: Zogby International. [Google Scholar] Arab Values Survey (carried out in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and UAE) in order to test for “cultural,” “social” and/or international “political” influences on Arab Muslim attitudes toward “Western” countries (Canada, France, Germany, UK, and USA). We find little support for “cultural” hypotheses to the effect that hostility to the West is a mark-up on Muslim and/or Arab identity. We find only limited support for “social” hypotheses that suggest that hostility to the West is predicted by socioeconomic deprivation, youth, and/or being male. We find the strongest support for a lone “political” hypothesis: hostility toward specific Western countries is predicted by those countries' recent and visible international political actions in regard to salient international issues (e.g., Western foreign policies toward Palestine)

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