The first annual AthenaLab-IPSOS survey emerged as an unusual instrument of measurement, given that the surveys conducted at the time in Chile asked little or nothing about defence and even less about international affairs. In fact, in 2019 we received some criticism for asking about “national interests” or even linking “national security with foreign policy.” […]
Five years ago, when we began conducting the first, one-of-a-kind Survey of Perceptions on Foreign Policy and National Security along with the pollster Ipsos, the data showed that Chileans’ main concern was drug trafficking and organised crime, followed by the porosity of borders and the increase in irregular immigration. Today that seems obvious; there is […]
Our fourth Foreign Policy and National Security survey, carried out jointly with Ipsos, confirms Chileans’ concern about drug trafficking and irregular immigration, two transnational phenomena that exploit the porosity of Chile’s extensive borders, and fuel the country’s current security crisis. Several of these problems, which today seem to have exploded simultaneously, had been addressed early […]
Since we began this survey three years ago, a pandemic has swept the world, a new political cycle has begun in Chile after social upheaval, and Russia has launched a war against Ukraine, the global repercussions of which are in full swing. Deep down, all of the above speaks to us of disruptions that are […]
AthenaLab released the results of the Second Survey of Perceptions on Foreign Policy and National Security, which seeks to compare the results of the previous year with perceptions in terms of security and defense, specifically regarding the main threats observed today, the role that Chile should play in the world and its relationship with other […]
The events experienced in recent months, both nationally and globally, have broadly demonstrat- ed that we are currently facing a volatile, uncer- tain, complex and ambiguous reality. Sometimes, it seems as if we have not made it out of one crisis before entering another; from the social upris- ing to the global pandemic, followed by […]
