Does U.S. Soft Power Have Consequences for U.S. Security? Evidence from Popular Support for Suicide Bombing

Chiozza, Giacomo

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“…Results of some studies indicate the possible importance of the combined eff ect (interaction) of two specifi c inequality indicators (e.g. poverty/income and education) (Chiozza 2009;Kavanagh 2011;Saeed and Syed 2018). Other studies suggested the importance of diff erent contextual factors such as level of urbanisation or level of violence (Mousseau 2011;Fair et al 2018).…”

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Resisting Radicalisation?

Pilkington

2023

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This landmark volume of extensive empirical research conducted across Europe explains how, and why, young people become engaged in radical(ising) milieus but also resist radicalisation into violent extremism. Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but for the most part have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. It brings together contributions conducted as part of a cross-European (including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Russia, Turkey, the UK, and beyond) study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus. It argues that radicalisation is best understood as a relational concept reflecting a social process rooted in relational inequalities but also shaped by interactional and situational dynamics, which not only facilitate but also constrain radicalisation.

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Pilkington

2023

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“…It has increased support for US military missions (Goldsmith and Horiuchi, 2012), it has helped to delegitimize terrorist attacks against American citizens (Chiozza, 2015), it has enabled the US to establish military bases in more than 80 countries in all parts of the world (Bitar, 2016), and it has allowed the US to have an outsized influence in the United Nations (Datta, 2009). Support for US leadership has not only been important for the achievement of US foreign policy goals.…”

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The January 6 Insurrection and America's Standing Abroad: Natural Experimental Evidence from Five Unexpectedly Interrupted Public Opinion Surveys

Noort

2022

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American geopolitical power partly relies on foreign public support for its leadership. Pundits worry that this support is evaporating now that the United States—which claims to be the world’s beacon of democracy—has itself experienced democratic back- sliding. I provide the first natural experimental test of this hypothesis by exploiting that the January 6 insurrection of the US Capitol unexpectedly occurred while Gallup was conducting nationally-representative surveys in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Romania, and Vietnam. Because Gallup uses random digit dialing I can identify the effect by comparing US leadership approval among respondents that were interviewed just before, and just after, January 6, 2021. I find that the insurrection had no effect on US approval. If even a violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election does not affect US approval abroad it is unlikely that any other domestic anti-democratic event will.

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The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion

Kitagawa¹,

Chu²

2021

World Pol.

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Apology diplomacy promises to assuage historical grievances held by foreign publics, yet in practice appears to ignite domestic backlash, raising questions about its efficacy. This article develops a theory of how political apologies affect public approval of an apologizing government across domestic and foreign contexts. The authors test its implications using large-scale survey experiments in Japan and the United States. In the surveys, the authors present vignettes about World War II grievances and randomize the nature of a government apology. They find that apology-making, both as statements acknowledging wrongdoing and as expressions of remorse, boosts approval in the recipient state. But in the apologizing state, backlash is likely among individuals with strong hierarchical group dispositions—manifested as nationalism, social-dominance orientation, and conservatism—and among those who do not consider the recipient a strategically important partner. This microlevel evidence reveals how leaders face a crucial trade-off between improving support abroad and risking backlash at home, with implications for the study of diplomatic communication and transitional justice.

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Does U.S. Soft Power Have Consequences for U.S. Security? Evidence from Popular Support for Suicide Bombing

Abstract: for comments and suggestions. Mistakes, omissions, and other assorted infelicities are my own responsibility. Data, replication codes and supporting materials are available at http://www.chiozza.or

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Resisting Radicalisation?

Resisting Radicalisation?

The January 6 Insurrection and America's Standing Abroad: Natural Experimental Evidence from Five Unexpectedly Interrupted Public Opinion Surveys

The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion

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