Countries go à la carte with international allegiances, major survey reveals

Published on November 14, 2023

A new multi-country global survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in cooperation with Oxford University’s ‘Europe in a Changing World’ project reveals stark disparities in attitudes about future world order.

  • Countries no longer want to ‘pick a side’, but choose alliances on the issues
  • Western values are admired, but doubts around the survival of the ‘liberal’ West
  • Surprising numbers are concerned the European Union will fall apart within 20 years
  • Many outside Europe expect Russia to win the war in Ukraine - in the West, the opposite opinion prevails
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