부산대학교 도서관

I analyze American attitudes towards international punishment for alleged human rights violations committed by American soldiers. Building on research regarding the influence of national identity salience on attitudes towards international institutions, I argue those who have high levels of national identity will also be high in opposition. Rooted in the national identity literature, I employ two conceptualizations of national identity, patriotism and nationalism, to explore the impact of national identity on attitudes towards international punishment of alleged American human rights violations. Using logistic regression of survey responses from the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, I find that respondents with higher levels of patriotism and nationalism also have higher levels of opposition to international punishment of Americans. Together, these findings provide support for the larger theoretical claim that increased levels of national identity factors shapes negative individual assessments of international human rights punishment for fellow Americans. These findings expand our knowledge on the impact of national identity on assessment of international institutions from a large focus on attitudes towards regional international institutions to global institutions. As well, this study is the first of its kind to offer an explanation for American attitudes towards international human rights prosecutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]