American support for international involvement: general and specific components of post-Cold War changes

Article Abstract:

An analysis of public opinion poll results shows that certain opinions about US involvement in international affairs changed little or great from the 1980s and the presence of the Cold War to the 1990s, when the Cold War was an issue of the past. Fewer people supported global altruism in the 1990s than the 1980s. Global issues that received similar percentages of public opinion were improving the United Nations, reducing the US trade deficit, reducing global access to nuclear weapons, storing energy supplies and environment improvement. Domestic issues rated similarly.

Peacekeeping forces, Nuclear weapons (International law), Altruism, Altruism (Human behavior), Domestic policy

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China and human rights

Article Abstract:

Public opinion about China has swayed since 1989, when the Chinese government violated human rights in the breakup of a demonstration at Tiananmen Square. People previously perceived China to be of little threat to the US and favored opening diplomatic relations. By 1994, however, attention to human rights decreased, and was replaced by the issue of renewing China's most-favored nation trade status. Americans basically supported renewal of the trade status without human rights issues being connected to the renewal.

United States, China, Chinese foreign relations, Human rights, United States foreign relations, Trade policy, Commercial policy, Most favored nation clauses

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Red, brown and yellow perils: images of the American enemy in the 1940s and 1950s

Article Abstract:

The images of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union found in American popular culture in the 1940s and 1950s can be analysed to identify the prejudices and concerns of the American government and public. The Japanese were invariably depicted in caricature as yellow or as apes, with Americans finding it relatively easy to despise the imperialist Japanese. Images in popular culture also made it easy for Americans to transfer their hatred for Nazi Germany towards Soviet Russia after the second world war.

Analysis, Portrayals, Popular culture, Russians, Japanese, Japanese (Asian people), Germans

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