Welcome to my web page.  My dissertation focuses on the consequences of anti-Americanism.  Using data from the Pew Global Attitudes Project in addition to data collected from the National Archives, I examine the relationship between cross-national variation in favorable opinion toward the U.S. and: (1) voting alignment with the U.S. within the United Nations General Assembly from 1985 to 2007; (2) global consumption of iconic U.S. brand-name products, in addition to cross-national purchases of U.S. securities from 1995 to 2007; and (3) political, financial, and troop support for the 2003 U.S.-led war in Iraq. The results of this study not only contribute to an ongoing debate between realists and liberals regarding the extent to which public opinion is a useful predictor for a given state’s foreign policy, but also provide substantial policy implications for the U.S. national interest.

I am also interested in U.S.-North Korea relations, nuclear weapons nonproliferation issues, the U.S.-EU Transatlantic gap, migrant workers' attitudes toward the U.S., and the sources and consequences of human trafficking.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss any of the above topics.  I look forward to hearing your ideas.

Best,
Monti (mndatta[at]ucdavis[dot]edu)

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