Losing on the Home Front? Battlefield Casualties, Media, and Public Support for Foreign Interventions

Fetzer, Thomas; Souza, Pedro Cl; Eynde, Oliver Vanden; Camarena, Kara Ross

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“…Qatar UAE Bahrain Oman violent activities (Besley et al, 2019), and public support for foreign military interventions (Fetzer et al, 2021). Our paper focuses on news media coverage and sentiment about economic reforms in the GCC.…”

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From #Hashtags to Legislation: Engagement and Support for Economic Reforms in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Arezki¹,

Belmejdoub²,

Diab³

et al. 2022

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Section: Saudi Arabia Kuwaitmentioning

confidence: 99%

From #Hashtags to Legislation: Engagement and Support for Economic Reforms in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Arezki¹,

Belmejdoub²,

Diab³

et al. 2022

Policy Research Working Papers

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Security Transitions

Fetzer

Souza

Eynde

et al. 2021

American Economic Review

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How do foreign powers disengage from a conflict? We study this issue by examining the recent, large-scale security transition from international troops to local forces in the ongoing civil conflict in Afghanistan. We construct a new dataset that combines information on this transition process with declassified conflict outcomes and previously unreleased quarterly survey data of residents’ perceptions of local security. Our empirical design leverages the staggered roll-out of the transition, and employs a novel instrumental variables approach to estimate the impact. We find a significant, sharp, and timely decline of insurgent violence in the initial phase: the security transfer to Afghan forces. We find that this is followed by a significant surge in violence in the second phase: the actual physical withdrawal of foreign troops. We argue that this pattern is consistent with a signaling model, in which the insurgents reduce violence strategically to facilitate the foreign military withdrawal to capitalize on the reduced foreign military presence afterward. Our findings clarify the destabilizing consequences of withdrawal in one of the costliest conflicts in modern history, and yield potentially actionable insights for designing future security transitions. (JEL D74, F51, F52, O17)

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Takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban: Analysis of Newspapers’ Frames and Foreign Office Statements

Syed,

Riaz

2023

JPR

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This paper reflects the existing scholarly debate on media-foreign policy relationship and its application, in varying circumstances, on Afghanistan under the guise of Galtung’s War and Peace Journalism model. The Researcher quantitatively analyzed, The New York Times and Moscow Times from 15th August 2020 to 15th August 2022 (one year before and one year after Kabul’s takeover by Taliban) in the backdrop of foreign policy statements. The New York Times remained stuck to War Journalism with respect to Afghan Taliban during both time periods (pre and post Kabul takeover periods). However, Foreign office statements of US shifted from War Journalism (during pre-Kabul takeover period) to Peace Journalism (during after takeover period). Contrary to this, coverage of Moscow Times changed from War Journalism (during pre-takeover period) to Peace Journalism (during post takeover period) amid peace dominated Russian Foreign office statements during both time periods.

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Losing on the Home Front? Battlefield Casualties, Media, and Public Support for Foreign Interventions

Cited by 3 publications

References 72 publications

From #Hashtags to Legislation: Engagement and Support for Economic Reforms in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

From #Hashtags to Legislation: Engagement and Support for Economic Reforms in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Security Transitions

Takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban: Analysis of Newspapers’ Frames and Foreign Office Statements

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