Research
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Naima Green-Riley and Andrew Leber, “Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad,” Security Studies, 2023.
Building on long-standing work on a “gender gap” in war support, this article documents a recurring “race gap” in which Black Americans display less enthusiasm for war than their White counterparts. We compile time-series data on public opinion during the Iraq War collected from over fifty national polls and successive waves of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study to assess potential explanations for the gap. We show that concerns about casualties best explain lower levels of support for war among Black Americans. Feelings of political alienation and preferences for domestic spending serve as more salient contributors to Black disapproval of war during the George W. Bush years. Meanwhile, having a family member in the military does not explain lower Black support for war. Black antiwar rhetoric suggests that our casualty sensitivity and alienation findings stem from linked fate attitudes and concerns about fairness and “just-ness” of the war effort among Black Americans.
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Naima Green-Riley, Dominika Kruszewska-Eduardo, and Ze Fu, “Teargas and Selfie Cams: Foreign Protests and Media in the Digital Age,” Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2021.
This study explores the impact of repression of foreign protests and the media source reporting the news upon American foreign policy preferences for democracy promotion abroad. We use two survey experiments featuring carefully-edited video treatments to show that even short media clips presenting foreign protests as violently repressed increase American support for targeted sanctions against the hostile regime; however, these treatments alone do not inspire respondents to political action. Furthermore, we do not find evidence that mobile treatment magnifies the effects of violence.
Book Chapters
Naima Green-Riley, “What are the implications for the U.S. as China reshapes its overseas image?” The China Questions II, Harvard University Press, 2022.
Work In Progress
Naima Green-Riley, “How Perilous are Paper Fans? Public Diplomacy through Confucius Classrooms and Implications for Chinese Influence,” Working paper
Naima Green-Riley, Joshua Kertzer, Chryl Laird, and Julian Wamble, “Black and White Beyond the Water’s Edge: Racial Gaps in Foreign Policy Preferences,” Working paper
Naima Green-Riley, Joshua Kertzer, Pablo Barberá, Andrew Guess, Simon Munzert, and JungHwan Yang, “News from Afar: Foreign Media and U.S. Public Opinion,” Working paper