Can Sparing Civilians Pay? An Experimental Analysis of Public Sensitivity to Rebel Group Targeting of Civilians in Military Interventions

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Brief Overview

This experiment examines whether U.S. citizens are more likely to approve of U.S. government support for rebel groups when those groups comply with international humanitarian law and finds that approval is conditional on strategic importance.

Author

• Hannah Read, University of Nebraska-Lincoln