{"id":6339,"date":"2019-10-18T18:31:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T07:08:33","slug":"the-impact-of-russian-election-meddling-on-allies-trust-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2019\/10\/18\/6339\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Russian Election Meddling on Allies\u2019 Trust in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 13, Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government and Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies at Dartmouth College and a guest professor from Keio University will give a talk entitled “The Impact of Russian Election Meddling on Allies\u2019 Trust in the United States.” Professor Atsushi Tago of the School of Political Science and Economics is hosting the event with the support from the Center for Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy, Top Global University Project at Waseda University.<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/h4>\n

The identity of the United States as a democracy is claimed to be a core part of its so-called \u201csoft power\u201d (Nye 2001). If the United States were not perceived as a democracy, or as a diminished or partial democracy, would this affect its ability to maintain its global alliance network? Would it affect its ability to pursue other important foreign policy goals? In the context of the unusual presidency of Donald Trump, and the now well-documented attempts by Russia to interfere in the 2016 United States election that brought him to power, scholars have focused on Americans\u2019 reactions to foreign election meddling (Tomz & Weeks 2018) and on the impact of Trump on America\u2019s image abroad (Agadjanian & Horiuchi 2018). However, another potentially important aspect of these seemingly new phenomena in international politics is the impact on the U.S. image as a democracy in foreign countries, perhaps most significantly in formal U.S. military allies. U.S. image as a democracy, for example captured in the phrase \u201cleader of the free world,\u201d has been central to its international role since the end of the Second World War. Most of the United States\u2019 key military alliances involve other democracies, including almost all NATO states, Japan, Australia, and South Korea. It is a reasonable assumption that perception of the U.S. as a democracy is both an important justification for the existence and purpose of those alliances, and crucial for their maintenance and survival. But what would happen if citizens of allied countries came to see U.S. democracy as severely flawed, or even came to regard it as nondemocratic? Our team runs a study assessing the impact of information about the attempt (and success) of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election on the views of Australians and Britons about the United States as a military ally.<\/p>\n

Event Information<\/h4>\n

Date & Time: November 13 (Wed), 2019 at 16:30-18:00
\nVenue: Room 702 on the 7th floor of Building #3, Waseda Campus
\nLanguage: English
\nOpen to students, faculty members, and the general public
\nParticipation: No registration required
\nSpeaker: Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government and Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies, Dartmouth College and a guest professor from Keio University
\nTitle: The Impact of Russian Election Meddling on Allies\u2019 Trust in the United States
\nContact: Atsushi Tago, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University \u3000tago@waseda.jp<\/a>
\nCo-sponsor: Center for Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy, Waseda University<\/p>\n

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