National Chauvinism, Group Identity Affirmation, and Trust in International Relations: Experimental Results from Ukraine
Journal: Nationalities Papers
Year: 2023

Abstract Research has found that affirming national identity can encourage the public’s trust toward a foreign adversary. On the other hand, aggressor states have attempted to recategorize identity by promoting a superordinate identity that includes both aggressor and defender states. In comparison with national identity affirmation, we test how effective emphasis of a common identity might be in the context of Russia-Ukraine and evaluate the scope conditions under which such a strategy may back