Money as Apology: Public Diplomacy in the Shadow of Transgression

• In Event: Foreign Policy and Public Perception

Brief Overview

This paper examines when foreign aid, reparations, and political apologies improve foreign public opinion. Using survey experiments in Vietnam, it tests how symbolic and financial gestures shape responses to historical transgressions.

Authors

• Paul Un, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Deli Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Yujeong Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign