Para Bellum: Ethnicity and Foreign Policy Opinion in Israel

• In Event: Intersections between Public Opinion and Political Behavior

Abstract

ecently scholars have called for greater consideration of the role of race and ethnicity in theories of international relations. The article argues that race and ethnicity should also be incorporated in examinations of citizens’ foreign policy opinions. The lived experience of difference groups can lead them to form different preferences. The article uses the case of different ethnicities in the Jewish Israeli population to demonstrate that members of different ethnic blocs can express significantly different preferences. If IR research is abandoning the “norm against noticing” race and ethnicity, then it should notice the effects in public opinion as well.

Author

• Hannah Ridge, Chapman University