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| U.S. GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT | Attitudes Toward the U.S. | ||
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POLL GIVES U.S. INFLUENCE MIXED REVIEWS ON WORLD STAGE Conducted jointly by GlobeScan and the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, this global survey for the BBC World Service incorporated the views of almost 40 thousand people across 33 countries. A similar, yet smaller, study was conducted at the end of 2004. While global attitudes toward the United States received mixed reviews, overall ratings declined a full five points from last year's survey. Stronger negative sentiment was found in China and North Korea, as well as throughout European countries. Once again, America's influence globally was viewed as worse than that of both China and Russia.
Yet positive attitudes toward the United States are on the rise in Turkey, Russia, and
Poland, and were found throughout many newly-added
African countries. Forty percent of respondents worldwide continued to
view U.S. influence as mainly positive. The addition of Iran to this year's
survey also replaced the U.S. as the country that the most others view
negatively.
Of the 33 countries rated, Japan and European countries as a whole received the
largest number of positive ratings globally. |
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