Anti-Americanism and the rise of world opinion

Datta, Monti Narayan

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“…1 With expanded media coverage of protests on international issues, such as wars, trade conflicts, and human rights, as well as the increased availability of cross-national opinion surveys, global public opinion has become an important topic in scholarly research over the past decade (e.g., Dragojlovic, 2013;Goldsmith, Horiuchi and Inoguchi, 2005;Goldsmith and Horiuchi, 2009;Holsti, 2008;Katzenstein and Keohane, 2007;Walt, 2006). Based on empirical analysis, some of these studies show that the image of a foreign country in the minds of ordinary people can bring about policy changes and influence the outcomes of international relations (Datta, 2009(Datta, , 2014Goldsmith and Horiuchi, 2012), an idea often understood in terms of how much "soft power" a country holds in relations with foreign countries (Nye, 2004).…”

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Has Trump Damaged the U.S. Image Abroad? Decomposing the Effects of Policy Messages on Foreign Public Opinion

Agadjanian¹,

Horiuchi

2018

Polit Behav

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The U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently made foreign countries central to his political messages, often conveying animosity. But do foreign citizens react more to the speaker of these messages-Trump himself-or their content? More generally, when people are exposed to messages sent from foreign countries, are their attitudes influenced by information heuristics or information content in messages? Although related studies are abundant in the literature of American public opinion, these questions are not fully examined in the literature of foreign public opinion. To address them, we used Japan as a case and fielded a survey experiment exposing citizens to U.S. policy messages that varied by source, policy content, and issue salience. Results suggest that while the source cue (Trump attribution) causes negative perceptions of the U.S., the policy content (cooperative vs. uncooperative) has a larger effect in shaping opinion of the U.S. Furthermore, analysis of interaction effects shows that only when U.S. policy approach is uncooperative does the Trump attribution have significantly negative and large effects. We conclude that foreign citizens rely more on policy content in transnational opinion formation-an aspect that past research in this area has overlooked.Substantively, these findings may demonstrate that even under a presidency that has alienated foreign countries and seemingly undermined U.S. stature in the world, foreign opinion toward the U.S. does not hinge entirely on its political leader. In short, Trump has not irreparably damaged U.S. image abroad.

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Has Trump Damaged the U.S. Image Abroad? Decomposing the Effects of Policy Messages on Foreign Public Opinion

Agadjanian¹,

Horiuchi

2018

Polit Behav

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“…Anti-Americanism is a rather ambiguous term defined as “a psychological tendency to hold negative views of the United States and of American society in general” (Katzenstein and Keohane 2007, 12). Military intervention, U.S. support for nondemocratic regimes and Israel, and discontent about cultural imperialism are cited among the main causes of anti-Americanism in MENA (Abdallah 2003; Berger 2014; Chiozza 2007; Datta 2014; Furia and Lucas 2006; Jamal 2012; Katzenstein and Keohane 2007). There does not seem to be a singular origin or one type of this tendency, and it widely varies across countries (Chiozza 2007).…”

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Who Favors al-Qaeda? Anti-Americanism, Religious Outlooks, and Favorable Attitudes toward Terrorist Organizations

Ciftci

O'Donnell

Tanner

2017

Political Research Quarterly

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This study examines why ordinary people sympathize with a terrorist network in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Holding literalist religious outlook resonating with al-Qaeda’s marginal interpretation of Islam constant, it is maintained that anti-Americanism and its varieties matter a great deal in explaining attitudes toward al-Qaeda. Using Pew Global Attitudes Surveys conducted in Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, the authors run conditional mixed process estimations combining seemingly unrelated regressions with selection models to account for the missing values and endogeneity problems. The analysis reveals significant variation both cross-nationally and in the effects of varieties of anti-Americanism on favorability of al-Qaeda. While the dislike of certain aspects of American culture generates sympathy toward al-Qaeda, anti-Americanism as a general attitude does not. More interestingly, dislike of American democracy, technology, and policy has either negative or no effect on favorable views of al-Qaeda. Literalist religious outlook generates positive views of al-Qaeda, but religiosity has a negative impact. These findings imply that we need to draw careful distinctions between politicized Islamic preferences and personal religiosity as well as the different types of anti-American sentiments in understanding Muslim political attitudes about terrorist groups.

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