Year: 2025
Author: Koba Turmanidze, Director
The report examines how narratives about foreign policy influence public opinion in Georgia. It aims to identify which factors make foreign policy stories effective and whether the way these stories are framed can change public attitudes toward different international partners.
The research uses two experimental approaches: a laboratory experiment and a nationally representative survey experiment. Participants evaluated short hypothetical stories (vignettes) about Georgia’s foreign relations in which key elements – such as the partner country, tone of the story, type of cooperation, messenger, and social media support – were systematically varied to measure their effects on attitudes, credibility, and behavioral responses.
The report was prepared within the project “Countering Anti-Democratic Propaganda Through Engagement,” implemented by CRRC-Georgia with the support of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).
