Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2009

The aim of this survey was to identify the attitudes of the public in the United States and in 12 European countries towards foreign policy and transatlantic issues. This survey concentrated on issues such as: United States and European Union (EU) leadership and relations, favorability towards certain countries and institutions, security, cooperation and the perception of threat, including concerns over Afghanistan, Iran, and Russia, Turkey and Turkish accession to the EU, climate change and the international economic crisis, and economic versus military power. Several questions were also asked pertaining to voting and politics including whether respondents discussed political matters with their friends and whether they attempted to persuade others close to them to share their views on politics which they held strong opinions about, their assessment of the current United States President, their political party attachment, their vote intention for the next national elections, their voting behavior in the November 2008 United States presidential election, and their left-right political self-placement. Demographic and other background information includes age, gender, race, age when finished full-time education and stage at which full-time education completed, occupation, household composition, type of locality, and region of residence.