What do Hungarian Foreign Policy Stakeholders Think?
What do Hungarian Foreign Policy Stakeholders Think?

Author(s): Zsuzsanna Végh
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, International relations/trade
Published by: AMO – Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky
Keywords: Hungary; Visegrad Foreign Policy Trends; Eastern Opening; Southern Opening; EU relations; transatlantic relations; migration crisis; foreign policy stakeholders; regional cooperation; survey analysis;
Summary/Abstract: The online opinion survey of the “Visegrad Foreign Policy Trends 2015” project was conducted with the goal of assessing what views various foreign policy stakeholders (politicians, civil servants, experts, analysts, journalists, business representatives) hold in the four Visegrad states concerning their country’s foreign policy, its allies, priorities and activities in certain thematic areas of current affairs. The results of the survey do not only present a unique insight into stakeholders’ perception about their own country’s foreign policy, but we have also gained a comparative overview of how foreign policy elites approach contemporary challenges and to what extent foreign policy thinking and identity is similar in the four countries. The survey was conducted between July 20 and September 6, 2015, and overall 1,711 stakeholders were invited from the four countries to answer 24 questions in various policy areas (bilateral relations, international topics, international organizations, European integration, the Visegrad Group, transatlantic relations, current affairs, successes and failures). In the end, 429 respondents (25.1%) submitted their anonymous answers in the four countries.

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