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Popular Support for Multilateralism
Friday, October 17, 2008 : 12:30pm to 2:00pm
University Park Campus
Social Sciences Building
B-40
Free
Richard Herrmann of OSU's Mershon Center advances a theory attributing foreign policy preferences to nationalism and ideology.
This is the first in a series of exchanges between the USC Center for International Studies and Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
Richard Herrmann, director of the Mershon Center, discusses the theory that feelings of national superiority uniformly lead to ethnocentric preferences, while ideological mindsets lead liberals to favor multilateral approaches in most situations and conservatives to favor unilateral approaches in some situations and multilateral approaches in others. Conservatives attach more importance to how the actors involved affect U.S. geostrategic interests. Liberals take a more uniform approach. Herrmann will discuss the results of experiments embedded in a national survey that highlight the interaction between ideological mindsets and the features of the situation that lends support to this theory and suggests that ideology is not simply the product of nationalism. Ideology appears to be playing a bigger role in the formulation of preferences among the general public than previously thought. As Herrmann points out, however, this does not mean the public is polarized. A majority tends to support multilateral strategies, contrary to portrayals emphasizing unilateral inclinations and American exceptionalism.
Mary Sarrotte, associate professor of International Relations, will be the discussant for the event.
Lunch will be provided.
About Richard Herrmann
Herrmann has served as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow in the Secretary of State's Policy Planning staff in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy and has published numerous articles in journals including American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Political Psychology. From 1989-1994, he served as co-editor of the International Studies Quarterly.