Analysing Arab public opinion on the international community’s response to the Syrian crisis, we expand existing scholarship by injecting a non-Western perspective into the oftentimes Western-centric debates on intervention. We demonstrate that publics in two prominent Arab Spring countries were quite willing to embrace intervention in Syria in order to depose Bashar al-Assad. More specifically, our analysis reveals that both interests and values shape support for different types of international intervention in Syria. In the context of the distinction between policy-driven and culture-driven anti-Americanisms, we show that Egyptian and Tunisian evaluations of US foreign policy behaviour and, to lesser extent, US culture correlate with support for Western-led intervention in Syria.

通过分析阿拉伯公众对国际社会对叙利亚危机的反应的舆论，我们通过将非西方观点注入经常以西方为中心的干预问题辩论中，从而扩大了现有的学术范围。我们证明，两个著名的阿拉伯之春国家的公众都非常愿意接受叙利亚的干预，以推翻巴沙尔·阿萨德。更具体地说，我们的分析表明，利益和价值观都影响着对叙利亚不同类型国际干预的支持。在区分政策驱动的反美主义和文化驱动的反美主义的背景下，我们表明埃及和突尼斯对美国外交政策行为以及在较小程度上美国文化的评价与西方对叙利亚主导的干预的支持有关。