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@article{ART002591937},
author={Seok Joon Kim},
title={Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?},
journal={Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences},
issn={1598-4230},
year={2020},
volume={63},
number={2},
pages={5-24},
doi={10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seok Joon Kim
TI - Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?
JO - Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
PY - 2020
VL - 63
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
SP - 5
EP - 24
SN - 1598-4230
AB - How do ordinary citizens assess threats posed by a rival state? International relations scholars, particularly realists, provide important insights into ordinary citizens’ threat assessment. Based on a survey experiment that utilizes a representative sample of U.S. citizens, this study examines how ordinary U.S. citizens assess a rival state’s threat. This study finds that instead of using all the information available, ordinary citizens utilize information about both state power and intentions heuristically for threat assessment. As a result, U.S. citizens respond as though they were offensive realists under certain conditions (when uncertainty about a strong state’s intentions is high), while they respond as though they were defensive (motivational) realists under some other conditions (when uncertainty about a strong state’s intentions is low). This study makes a theoretical contribution to the existing scholarship by empirically testing at the micro level the baseline assumption of realists of international relations over the role of a state’s intentions in threat assessment.
KW - threat assessment;power;uncertainty;intentions
DO - 10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001
ER -

Seok Joon Kim. (2020). Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 63(2), 5-24.

Seok Joon Kim. 2020, "Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?", Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, vol.63, no.2 pp.5-24. Available from: doi:10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001

Seok Joon Kim "Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?" Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 63.2 pp.5-24 (2020) : 5.

Seok Joon Kim. Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?. 2020; 63(2), 5-24. Available from: doi:10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001

Seok Joon Kim. "Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?" Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 63, no.2 (2020) : 5-24.doi: 10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001

Seok Joon Kim. Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 63(2), 5-24. doi: 10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001

Seok Joon Kim. Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. 2020; 63(2) 5-24. doi: 10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001

Seok Joon Kim. Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?. 2020; 63(2), 5-24. Available from: doi:10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001

Seok Joon Kim. "Ordinary Citizens as Realists: How do Americans Assess Threat?" Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 63, no.2 (2020) : 5-24.doi: 10.17939/hushss.2020.63.2.001