This policy brief is part of the FLANKS II – Dealing with the challenge of political warfare in the COVID-19 and Ukraine war context, financed under the Fund for Bilateral Relations 2014-2021, co-published by New Strategy Center, Romania and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).The A year of War – National Attitudes in Romania and Norway policy brief analyzes the results of two national surveys conducted simultaneously in Romania and Norway.

New Strategy Center and NUPI worked together to design the questionnaire and adapt it to the cultural, social and political specificities of each country, while retaining a high degree of similarity, able to inform a sound subsequent analysis. The purpose of the survey was to establish national societal attitudes in the two target countries in around the 1st year mark of Russia’s unprovoked aggression of Ukraine.