With the West in Good Times and in Bad? Geopolitical Orientations of Croatian Citizens Under Scrutiny

The Globus magazine reported in its printed edition of 12 July 2023 about results of a research on geopolitical orientations of Croatian citizens in an article titled “With the West in Good Times and in Bad?“ The research was conducted within the ISRZ project  “IDEU - Integration and disintegration of the European Union: Dynamics of Europeanism and Euroscepticism“ by Filip Fila, Nikola Petrović, PhD and Josip Bilić, and the results were presented in the paper “Kulturno-civilizacijske i geopolitičke orijentacije hrvatskih stranaka i građana“, published in the journal Političke analize: tromjesečnik za hrvatsku i međunarodnu politiku, Vol. 11 No. 41.

The results of the research suggested the mostly pro-Western geopolitical orientation of Croatian citizens, regardless of their political preferences. However, this can still not be considered as unanimous support to the West. Almost a fourth of respondents had an extremely or to a certain degree negative opinion on NATO, while a little more than 15% shared the same view towards the EU. It is important to point out that the research was conducted in October 2021, before the Ukraine invasion.