Berger, LG orcid.org/0000-0001-7846-804X (2014) Foreign policies or culture: What shapes Muslim public opinion on political violence against the United States? Journal of Peace Research, 51 (6). pp. 782-796. ISSN 0022-3433
Abstract
This analysis uses survey data representing three of the world’s most populous Muslim majority countries to challenge conventional wisdom on what shapes Muslim public opinion on political violence against the United States. It improves previous analysis by clearly distinguishing support for violence against civilians from support for violence against military targets and by featuring independent variables that clearly separate views on US foreign policies from views on US culture. Logistic regression shows that, among Egyptian, Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims, perceptions of controversial US policies toward Israel, Middle Eastern oil, or the perceived attempt to weaken and divide the Muslim world are not related to support for attacks on civilians in the United States, but only to support for attacks on US military targets. Approval of attacks on US civilians is shaped, instead, by negative views of US freedom of expression, culture, and people, disapproval of the domestic political status quo as well as the notion of general US hostility toward democracy in the Middle East. This last finding has important implications for US and Western policies toward the post-Arab Spring Middle East in particular and the broader relationship with the Muslim World in general.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014, Sage Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Peace Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Terrorism; Muslim public opinion; Anti-Americanism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2014 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2021 13:26 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343314527983 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0022343314527983 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:77829 |