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Informed Public Opinion in South-Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine and the Making of Foreign Policy

出版	University of Sussex, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0iTMoAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This thesis examines the impact of informed public opinion on the making of foreign policy in Poland and Ukraine. Drawing on the results of both opinion polls and a series of innovative focus groups, it sketches the contours of Polish and Ukrainian informed public opinion in the borderlands between the two states. Subsequently, it measures both the downward impact of foreign policy-makers on informed public opinion, and the upward impact of informed public opinion on foreign policy-makers. In undertaking this work, italso charts the influence of business on foreign policy-making in both states. This thesis is the first study to examine popular attitudes towards Polish-Ukrainian relations in both countries in depth and detail. Focusing on the vocal, informed segment of public opinion in the regions of Poland and Ukraine where the past is most salient as a political issue -south-eastern Poland and Western Ukraine - it unravels the mystery of how informedpub lic opinion impacts on foreign policy-makers in both states. Its originality lies in fourare as. First, in the use of focus groups to measure the contours of informed publicopinion in Poland and Ukraine. Second, in sketching the foreign policy systems of bothPoland and Ukraine. Third, in beginning an assessment of the influence of business onforeign policy-making in both states. Fourth, in investigating the role of commemorativeceremonie s for countries that are seeking to come to terms with a difficult shared history.The data on which the book is based has been gathered since the Orange Revolution.Thus it not only provides an up-to-date image of the process of foreign policy-making inboth states and the role of informed public opinion in this, but also assesses the impact ofthis crucial event on Polish-Ukrainian relations.