Dr Srbobran Brankovic: SERBIAN PUBLIC ON EUROATLANTIC INTEGRATIONS

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Public Opinion, Market and Media Research
Company GALLUP INTERNATIONAL
Savski trg 7, Belgrade Serbia, FR YugoslaviaTel.
38111 36-13-230, 642-042, Fax 645-490, 659-920
E-mail medium _at_eunet.yu www.mediumindex.co.yu
Dr Srbobran Brankovic SERBIAN PUBLIC ON
EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATIONS
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TOPICS

• Rating of Western countries and institutions of
  international community recent surveys
• Acceptance of cooperation with the West
• Comparison between two indices
• Attitudes towards regional cooperation
• General context Euro-Atlantic integrations and
  other (internal) political issues

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For each country, please tell me whether your
opinion of it is favorable or unfavorable ?(end
of April 03)
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OPINION ON THE WEST BEFORE AND AFTER THE
ASSASSINATION

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COOPERATION WITH THE WEST CLOSER ECONOMIC
COOPERATION
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COOPERATION WITH THE WEST MEMBERSHIP IN THE
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
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COOPERATION WITH THE WEST TO WORK TOWARDS
INCLUSION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
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MILITARY INTEGRATION PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
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MILITARY INTEGRATION TO JOIN NATO
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ATTITUDES TOWARDS COOPERATION IN CONTEXT OF OTHER
POLITICAL ISSUES

• Our company just has developed monthly based
  analysis of political and economic stability in
  the country
• The analysis is based on 8 topics, most relevant
  for political and economic stability social
  dissatisfaction, confidence in institutions,
  protest readiness, (MIS)TRUST IN THE WEST AND THE
  INSTITUTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY,
  inter-ethnic tensions, acceptance of regional
  cooperation, level of social (left) radicalism

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NEW METHODOLOGY COLLECTIVE INDICES

• All 8 topics have been analysed using large
  number of individual variables (questions)
• findings on individual countries and institutions
  rating have been summarized in joint index
• 10-rate indices 10 ideal situation when
  everybody has extremely unfavorable opinion on
  every country and institution 0 - nobody has
  unfavorable opinion
• The results of contrasting scales may be directly
  compared

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COMPARITION BETWEEN NONCONFIDENCE AND RESISTANCE
TO COOPERATION

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CONCLUSION

• Citizens of SMN accept co-operation with the
  West
• Logic, which was unimaginable in Milosevic's
  time partners in international relations don't
  need to love each other to be able to co-operate
• Readiness for military cooperation significantly
  lower

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INDEX OF OPPOSITION TO REGIONAL COOPERATION

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ACCEPTENCE OF EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATIONS
GENERAL CONTEXT

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NEW POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Government anti-crime action has significantly
  changed political agenda in Serbia
• More and more people realize that common
  criminal and war criminal structures are mutually
  connected. In fact they are the same.
• Patriotic phraseology and anti-West propaganda is
  strongly compromised
• Still the promotion of EURO-ATLANTIC ideas in
  SMN is much more difficult than in other
  countries of this region and Eastern Europe