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On some of the most significant issues of the day, including how the United States should respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Americans across party lines are in agreement, albeit often for different reasons.

Kim Ghattas, Gideon Rachman, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

The 1982 Chicago Council Survey shows important disparities between public opinion and Reagan administration policies in defense spending, arms control, foreign aid, détente, and trade policy.

Nirmal Ghosh, Carla Anne Robbins, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Kim Ghattas, Philip Stephens, and Julian Barnes join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Karen DeYoung, Steve Erlanger, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

The Council’s 2018 survey indicates that Americans support US engagement in world affairs, the largest majority since 1974—aside from after Sept. 11, 2001.

US politics, public opinion, and global implications.

Bobby Ghosh, Gideon Rachman, and Susan Glasser join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

2015 Chicago Council Survey results demonstrate the American public remains committed to engagement in the world.

Robert Ford and Tamara Cofman Wittes join the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Deep Dish podcast to dissect the Trump administration’s withdrawal from Syria.

The Council’s 2019 Survey establishes that retreating, relinquishing leadership, and abandoning alliances is not what the American public has in mind.

Ivo Daalder, James Harding, Gideon Rachman, and Carol Giacomo examine the week's most important global affairs news.

While half of Americans and a majority of Democrats say diversity makes the United States a better place to live, Republicans aren’t so sure.

New indirect talks between the United States and Iran on a return to the Iran deal could help the outlook for a moderate candidate in the next election.

Over the past 12 months, our pollsters tracked public attitudes on everything from the war in Ukraine to conflict in the Middle East.

Survey results reveal how Japanese perceptions of security in East Asia have changed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Stefan Kornelius, Philip Stephens, and Halley Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Council President Ivo Daalder discusses emerging global stories with The New York Times’ Carol Giacomo, POLITICO’s Matt Kaminski, and the Financial Times’ Philip Stephens.

Ivo Daalder talks with reporters from some of the world's leading media outlets about the week's most important global affairs news.

Reporters from leading media outlets join the Council to discuss the Kosovo-Serbia relations, Japan, the Navalny poisoning, and much more.

Ivo Daalder talks with reporters from some of the world's leading media outlets about the South China Sea, COVID-19, Huawei, Poland, and more.

The public supports US participation in the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, and more.

To mark the close of our centennial year, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs is looking back on some of our most memorable quotes from speakers we hosted in 2022.

The Washington Post's Karen DeYoung, The New York Times' Carol Giacomo, and Süddeutsche Zeitung's Stefan Kornelius join Brian Hanson to discuss global news.

Carol Giacomo of the New York Times, Stefan Kornelius of Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Edward Luce of the Financial Times joined Council President Ivo Daalder to analyze global news.

Hostage taking is as old as time, but today the world faces new tactics and unprecedented challenges; what can be done?

Balancing power or increasing risk? Deep Dish explores what a multilateral defense pact for Asia might mean.

The 2010 Chicago Council Survey shows that Americans remain committed to an active part in world affairs—its problems, opportunities, and key actors.

Economic sanctions: what they are, how the US has used them in foreign policy, and considerations for current policymakers.

"Hossein Taeb’s sudden removal from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is part of a wider project to install a new generation of zealots," writes Saeid Golkar.

"We will only have peace when America uses force to defend its interests," Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi write.

Results of the 2020 Chicago Council Survey reveal a striking divide between Democrats and Republicans on the critical threats facing the country.

It's been a busy 2021. Recap the year with the survey team's analyses of public opinion on the most critical issues at home and around the world.

Across party lines, the results of this Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey reveal that the US public and leaders largely agree on US foreign policy.

Presidential election is going to determine whether the rationalisation and normalisation of Iran is going to continue.

Reflect on the year with highlights from the Council's public opinion research and analysis.

A survey that examines the divide between foreign policy experts and the public.

Ivo Daalder discusses the annual Munich Security Conference.

More Americans consider issues like weakening democracy and political polarization to be critical threats to the United States than foreign adversaries.

Check out our weekly round up of the top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

A majority support using US troops to defend Seoul should North Korea invade, Council polling shows.

As rumors spread, Saeid Golkar argues why it's unlikely that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, succeeds his father.