GLOBSEC Vulnerability Index 2021 – Comparative report

Summary:

The GLOBSEC Vulnerability Index measures vulnerability towards foreign influence in eight countries: Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia on a 0-100 scale, where 0 is the most resilient and 100 the most vulnerable. It assesses five key dimensions: public attitudes, political landscape, public administration, information landscape, and civic and academic space, with a particular focus directed towards the Kremlin’s and Beijing’s activities.

The Index’s importance goes beyond the Central European and Western Balkan regions, however. It is a test of how confrontation of the West against Russia on the one hand and China on the other is playing out in a strategically important part of the world – geographically peripheral members of EU and NATO or countries in their neighbourhood aspiring to membership or partnership.

Contents:

• 04 Authors and editors
• 08 What is this report about?
• 12 Vulnerability dimensions
• 16 Strategic insight
• 18 Public attitudes
• 20 Political landscape
• 22 Public administration
• 24 Information landscape
• 26 Civic and academic space

• Alternative Source 1

GLOBSEC: Vulnerability Index, November 2021: Extended methodology https://www.europeansources.info/record/globsec-vulnerability-index-extended-methodology/

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