Jared Oestman (Political Science) and Songying Fang from Rice University published "" in Armed Forces & Society. They conducted a survey experiment on a sample of American citizens to understand what determines public support for different forms of U.S.-led military intervention in foreign crises caused by armed conflict. They found that, regardless of the motivation for intervention, the American public mostly supported multilateral forms of intervention and preferred the U.S. to undertake strategies that focused on the protection of civilians and peaceful conflict resolution. The implications of their findings are relevant for understanding public attitudes toward current crises such as in Ukraine.
