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The Program on International Policy AttitudesAmerican and Russian Public Opinion on International Security CISSM and its affiliated Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) have undertaken several studies of American and Russian public attitudes toward various policy options for addressing enduring and emerging security challenges. (For more information on PIPA, including other reports and polls, please visit http://www.pipa.org.) The results show that large majorities in both countries want their leaders to cooperate with each other on a wide range of security issues, not ignore or threaten each other. The American and Russian publics strongly prefer formal arms control - treaties with legally biding obligations and effective verification - over unilateral action or informal policy coordination. They are also surprisingly supportive of ambitious proposals for fundamentally transforming security relationships, including the verified elimination of all nuclear weapons and international control of all sensitive aspects of peaceful nuclear energy programs. Reports
Articles Nancy Gallagher, "US and Russian Public Opinion on Arms Control and Space Security", (Disarmament Diplomacy, Spring, 2008) John Steinbruner and Nancy Gallagher, "If You Lead, They Will Follow: Public Opinion and Repairing the U.S. - Russian Strategic Relationship," (Arms Control Today, January 2008) Steven Kull, "Survey Says: Americans Back Arms Control," (Arms Control Today, June 2004) |
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland