International collaboration under threat: A field study

This report examines Dutch military personnel’s attitudes toward international cooper-ation, while these attitudes were expressed under threatening (during the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan) or nonthreatening circum-stances (in Europe). Findings indicate that concerns about death were significantly more present in Afghanistan relative to Europe, and in Afghanistan, concerns about death were found to be negatively correlated with willingness to collaborate interna-tionally. These findings provide support for terror management processes in vivo, and have a number of important implications for international policy