SGER: Political Views of Middle East Citizens Following Western Military Intervention

SGER：西方军事干预后中东公民的政治观点

• 批准号: 0300072
• 负责人: Katherine Meyer
• 金额: $ 5.33万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-15 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0300072&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Political; Views; Middle; East

SES-0300072Katherine MeyerOhio State UniversityIn recent years, Western military intervention in the Middle East, for example, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel and the Palestinian has garnered political, journalistic and popular attention. Such intervention impacts citizens of the involved countries and becomes part of the cultural context that shapes their views towards democratic government, the West, the Arab World, and the Middle East. If growing resentment of the West follows military intervention, it is not just a matter of political, but also scholarly concern since citizen opinion is a critical component in understanding nation-building and peacekeeping efforts. It is a basis for the legitimacy of regimes, particularly those with democratic structures and procedures. This Small Grant for Exploratory (SGER) examines the public opinion of citizens in the Middle East in the ten years after the Gulf War in two ways. First, it explores the views of Kuwaiti citizens toward democracy, the West, the Arab World and the Gulf Coast countries using survey data gathered at three points in time during the 1990s. It investigates questions made salient to Middle Eastern populations by Western military intervention in the war; namely, is democracy increasingly legitimated as a form of government; have citizens' political identities become more Westernized or more specific to their region and history, as in some Asian nations; and are changes in attitudes distributed evenly across the Kuwaiti population or do they reflect differences among status groups, such as gender, social class, religious sect, class of citizenship, residency, and other variables that stratify populations in the Middle East? Second, this project extends beyond Kuwait by capitalizing on the discourse among scholars who are knowledgeable about the spread of democratic views and the development of political identity among Middle Eastern populations. From their vantage points, what changes in public opinion have scholars of the Middle East and Arab World observed regarding democratic governance, the West, the Arab World and the region in the decade since the end of the Gulf War? The project has the potential to increase our understanding of the development of public opinion in the Middle East, and the globalization of democracy within the cultural context not only of Islam but also Western military intervention.

近年来，西方对中东的军事干预，例如对阿富汗、巴基斯坦、以色列和巴勒斯坦的军事干预，引起了政治、新闻和公众的关注。 这种干预影响了相关国家的公民，并成为文化背景的一部分，塑造了他们对民主政府、西方、阿拉伯世界和中东的看法。 如果对西方的不满随着军事干预而增加，这不仅是一个政治问题，而且是一个学术问题，因为公民意见是理解国家建设和维和努力的关键组成部分。 它是政权合法性的基础，特别是具有民主结构和程序的政权。 这项小额探索补助金（SGER）从两个方面审视了海湾战争后十年中东公民的民意。 首先，它探讨了科威特公民对民主，西方，阿拉伯世界和墨西哥湾沿岸国家使用的调查数据收集在1990年代的三个时间点的看法。 它调查了西方军事干预战争对中东人口造成的突出问题;即，民主作为一种政府形式是否日益合法化;公民的政治身份是否变得更加西化或更加具体到他们的地区和历史，就像在一些亚洲国家一样;态度的变化是否均匀地分布在科威特人口中，还是反映了不同地位群体之间的差异，如性别、社会阶层、宗教派别、公民阶层、居住地和其他使中东人口分层的变量？ 第二，这个项目通过利用那些了解民主观点的传播和中东人口政治认同的发展的学者之间的话语而延伸到科威特之外。 从他们Vantage来看，中东和阿拉伯世界的学者在海湾战争结束后的十年里观察到了民主治理、西方、阿拉伯世界和该地区的民意变化？ 该项目有可能增加我们对中东舆论发展的理解，以及不仅在伊斯兰教文化背景下，而且在西方军事干预的文化背景下民主的全球化。