Statistics on International Intervention

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Most people around the world agree that the international community should intervene to stop a genocide:

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Here’s an example, Darfur:

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There’s less support for intervention to promote democracy. Here are the views of Americans:

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When faced with a wording that’s somewhat less precise, Americans are more interventionist:

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Regarding international intervention as a means to protect human rights abroad, Americans are even more positive. A very large majority of US citizens believes that promoting human rights is an important priority for US foreign policy. Majorities feel that promoting human rights serves US interests. Denying human rights is seen as leading to political instability, and a majority believes that using US military forces to remove a government that is abusing human rights is justified. A majority also supports using foreign aid as a means of promoting human rights (source).

Americans, when it comes to international intervention, are also unilateralists: