The United States of America (USA) uses multilateralism in diplomacy and in action to generate foreign public support for its use of force abroad. A typical multilateral diplomacy is done by obtaining the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s resolution (i.e. UN flag) to authorize a military...

Although the need for the U.S. to work with other democracies during a future crisis is ever increasing, we do not yet have a sufficient understanding of what citizens in U.S. allies think about security policies and possible military actions. We leveraged on an extremely rare opportunity in...

The export of arms belongs to the most contested issues in many democracies. In this article, we examine the economic repercussions of the easing of the arms exports restrictions that began in Japan after the end of the Cold War with support from the United States. We particularly examine the...

In a recently published article, Allen et al. (2020) argue that U.S. military deployments nurture favorable attitudes toward the U.S. among foreign citizens. Their claim is based on social contact and economic compensation theories, applied to a large-scale cross-national survey project funded...

Scholars have begun to examine the determinants of military coalition participation. Most studies pay closer attention to international (both systemic/dyadic) rather than domestic factors. While admitting the predominance of such international factors, this study claims that the domestic...