Human Rights Violations and Public Support for Sanctions

Domestic public support for taking punitive action against a human right violating country is often the main driving force for economic sanctions. However, imposing sanctions is a complex foreign policy instrument, varying greatly in effectiveness, costs on the sender and the differential harm inflicted upon the target population and leadership. How do individuals form their opinion in such a complex issue? Our research examines that an individual makes a multidimensional trade-off by jointly reflecting on several contextual factors that affect the perception of morality as well as the cost-benefit analysis.

对侵犯人权国家实施惩罚性措施国内支持的普遍存在，往往成为经济制裁的主要推动力。然而，实施制裁是一项复杂的对外政策工具，其有效性、对施策国的成本以及对目标国民及领导层的差异化伤害均有显著差异。个体在如此复杂的问题上如何形成自己的观点？本研究探讨了个人通过综合考量影响道德认知的多个背景因素，以及成本效益分析的多维权衡来形成观点。