Summary of party positions on EU foreign, security and defence policy

A thorough inventory of the existing data on public and elite opinion on issues related to EU foreign, security and defence policies, thereby getting a better understanding of whether political elites (parties) could act to make EUFSP issues contentious among citizens (i.e. a politicised issue). This task breaks down into a review of existing mass and elite survey data on attitudes towards a common security and defence policy and of existing party manifestos and expert surveys data on party positions towards a common security and defence policy based on the Party Manifesto Project and the CHES Expertsurvey.