The paper will look at the impact of the Big Five on foreign and security policy attitudes in Germany. Policy attitudes include threat perceptions, attitudes on the conflict in Ukraine, attitude on foreign and security policy goals, attitudes on military missions of the German Armed Forces (e.g., in Afghanistan or Kosovo), and general attitudes towards the German Armed Forces. The analyses are based on a representative German survey in 2014. Despite controlling for a bunch of attitudinal variables (e.g., interest in politics, ideology, political preferences, trust in institutions), personality still has a direct impact on several attitudes related to the two policy domains. The results also show that effects of personality traits vary over different kinds of foreign and security policy attitudes.
