Security Radar 2025: Europe – Lost in Geopolitics

The newest edition of our flagship project, the Security Radar 2025, is finished just in time for its presentation at Munich Security Conference.

Security Radar 2025 is the fourth edition of a representative public opinion poll first conducted in 2019, then in 2022 and again in 2023 in several countries across the OSCE space. It is a survey capturing citizens’ attitudes on a broad array of foreign and security policy issues. The focus of this year’s edition is once more Russia’s war in Ukraine and the European response.

Our Sample

Security Radar 2025 revisits the last 14-country edition that was presented at the Munich Security Conference several days before Russia invaded Ukraine. We want to see how attitudes changed three years on, and include almost the same set of countries: France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine and the United States. Only three countries are “new” and feature in the “Security Radar” for the first time: Sweden, a country that recently joined NATO in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine; Georgia, a South Caucasus state that has been rocked by mass protests since the reversal of its decision to hold accession negotiations with the EU; and the Central Asian state Kazakhstan, zu an important country in a sometimes overlooked part of the OSCE area.

The goal of the Security Radar remains unchanged: To provide a realistic picture of public perception regarding current geopolitical challenges and security threats. Moreover, to show what political responses people in Europe and beyond consider necessary for European security, to what extent they value diplomacy and international organisations, and how they want their countries to position themselves with regards to the war.

Read more about it here.