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Unpacking the Cues : A Survey Experiment on the Impact of International Support for Humanitarian Intervention on U.S. Public Opinion

English (英語)

Kobe University law review

53

11-35

神戸大学大学院法学研究科

2020

2021-03-29

Utilizing a survey experiment centering on a hypothetical proposal by the Trump administration to establish a safe zone in Syria, we seek to contribute to the “unpacking” of international-backing cues and the impact of such cues on individuallevel support for the use of military force. First, we unpack the effect of backing cues from different international bodies, for unlike previous work we distinguish between the impact on respondents of backing from the UN on the one hand and NATO on the other. Second, we explore the impact of a key pre-disposition of individuals, that is, their confidence in President Trump. We find that variation in such confidence appears to make American respondents more or less receptive to internationalbacking cues in a way that differs from previously reported work, namely, the association appears to be curvilinear rather than purely linear.

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