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Replication data for: American Foreign Policy and Global Opinion: Who Supported the War in Afghanistan?

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication data for: American Foreign Policy and Global Opinion: Who Supported the War in Afghanistan?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29077
 
Creator Goldsmith, Benjamin E.
Horiuchi, Yusaku
Inoguchi, Takashi
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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 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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Date 2005-06