American Foreign Policy and Global Opinion

Benjamin E. Goldsmith, Yusaku Horiuchi and Takashi Inoguchi
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Benjamin E. Goldsmith: School of Policy University of Newcastle, Australia
Takashi Inoguchi: Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Public Policy Chuo University

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2005, vol. 49, issue 3, 408-429

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: foreign policy; global public opinion; terrorism; Afghanistan; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002705276506

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