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The United States-Iraq War and Mexican Public Opinion

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Published date01 September 2006
AuthorReynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz
Date01 September 2006
DOI10.1177/002070200606100308
Subject MatterArticle
Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz
The United States-
Iraq war and
Mexican public
opinion
| 648 | International Journal | Summer 2006 |
This article analyzes a relationship that has not been carefully studied in the
literature on US-Mexico relations: the link between Mexican public opinion
and Mexico’s foreign policy.
The article has three sections. In the first, I discuss the antithetic theo-
retical visions of institutional liberalism and realism in terms of the linkage
between public opinion and foreign policy. After a brief review of this
debate, I propose a hypothesis, based on Gabriel Almond’s and Walter
Lippmann’s studies about the relationship between foreign policy and pub-
lic opinion.1The second section is a study of the evolution of perceptions
in Mexican public opinion about the war on Iraq, based on six national
Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz teaches at El Colegio de México. He wishes to thank Jorge
Buendía and Selene González for giving him access to the Ipsos-Bimsa surveys that were
essential to do this research, as well as his research assistant, Bárbara Magaña, who helped
with the translation of this article, and Monica Serrano, Jane Boulden, Bernardo Mabire,
Martha Elena Venier, and Estrella Espiña, whose comments were very useful. Of course all
the mistakes are the author’s responsibility.
1 Gabriel A. Almond,
The American People and Foreign Policy
(New York: Harcourt, Brace,
1950); Walter Lippmann,
Public Opinion
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922).

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