Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: Evidence from survey experiments in the United States

Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine

“…Second, past research has primarily examined whether international legal prohibitions can affect support for state behaviour (Cope & Crabtree, 2020; Wallace, 2014). A few recent studies have broadened the scope of analysis and examined under what conditions the publics of member states are willing to fulfil collective security commitments (Berejikian & Justwan, 2022; Tomz & Weeks, 2021); however, our research is the first to consider public responses to these commitments by a non‐American audience during an immediate, real‐world foreign policy crisis. Third, we expand the scope of the gender gap literature (e.g., Eichenberg, 2019) to examine whether women are more responsive than men to frames emphasizing alliance commitments when deciding whether to support the use of force.…”