Abstract
<jats:p>The article presents the results of a media geographic research of the European mental space. The theoretical and methodological tools of media geography as a new direction in humanitarian research are adapted by the author to study the mental landscapes of different countries that are transforming in the context of digital reality and the mediatization of all spheres of public life. This study focuses on analyzing Europeans’ interests in the field of international relations. The empirical basis of the study is the statistics of Internet users’ requests in European countries on topics substantively related to international politics. The research methodology involved implementing different methods (rank analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis) in a space-time coordinate system. Rank analysis revealed which topics of international politics Europeans are most interested in, and how they feel about them. Based on the study results, several factors were identified that characterize the Internet users’ behavior of different European countries in relation to events and processes in the international field. Cluster analysis illustrated the similarities and differences in Europeans’ reactions to potential international conflicts. The study’s findings enabled us to draw several conclusions that classify European countries according to their priorities when reacting to current international crises: the first group includes Sweden, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Spain, whose Internet audiences are focused on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; the second group consists of Serbia, Finland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, with a focus on political processes involving Russia. Interpretation of the obtained results makes it possible to form ideas about conflict zones in the European mental landscape in the context of international relations, which can become the basis for predicting the social behavior of the population of European countries and the nature of Europeans’ response to international politics.</jats:p>