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Judgement on questions of foreign policy and security policy. Topics: judgement on the current economic situation as well as the change of the situation since reunification for the part of the country in which the respondent lives (East or West); expected economic situation for one´s part of the country; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; party preference (Sunday question); certainty of one´s voting decision; most important political controversies for the voting decision; judgement on one´s own current economic situation and change since reunification; expected development of one´s own economic situation; attitude to selected statements on world security, stationing nuclear weapons, American culture influence on German culture, armament, national consciousness and NATO (scale); sympathy scale for the French, Persians, Turks, English, Chinese, Americans, Israelis, Poles, Swiss, Russians and Japanese; importance of good relations of the Federal Republic with selected European neighbors and some non-European countries; sympathy scale for leading politicians such as Yeltsin, Hussein, Kohl, Walesa, Major, Havel, Genscher, Mitterand, Gorbachev and Bush; countries presenting the greatest threat to Germany and assessment of the size of this threat; difference in interests in foreign policy of the USA and the Federal Republic; trust in the USA in coping with problems in world politics; attitude to security policy, armament, NATO, jeopardy to peace, weapons purchase, coping with conflict and soldiers as potential murderers (scale); attitude to the Federal German Armed Forces in the current form as mixture of persons liable for military service or as a professional army; preferred number of soldiers in the Federal German Armed Forces; assessment of the probability of war in Germany in the next ten years; attitude to current defense expenditures in the Federal Republic; most reliable partner of Germany in case of a military conflict; preference for...