Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War

(Potomac Books) This book examines the extent to which public opinion influences foreign policy leaders within the context of the Iraq War. Leading scholars debate the role of public opinion in different democratic countries’ decisions to participate or not participate in the international conflict. Sobel is a senior research associate in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research fellow and policy director at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research in Storrs, Conn. Furia teaches in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.