Commentary and Analysis

Bobby Ghosh, Nahal Toosi, Giles Whittell and join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Recent polling shows Turks have become more favorably inclined toward the European Union and NATO, while attitudes toward Russia and China have grown more negative.

A plurality of Kenyans express somewhat or very positive opinions about the economic influences of outside state actors in their country.

Susan Glasser, James Harding, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

"When the US inaugurates Donald J. Trump as its 47th president, the country and world will be very different because of it," Ivo Daalder writes.

Paul Heer weighs in on the Sino-US rivalry and the prospects of war over Taiwan.

"Pyongyang has a propensity to take actions ... aimed at reminding the West—and specifically the US—that it should not be be ignored," Paul Poast writes.

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Anton La Guardia, & Ken Moriyasu join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

The Council's Ivo Daalder joins Gideon Rachman to discuss the potential threat to US democracy if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election.

"They may be preparing to better operate with Russia as they square off against South Korea," Karl Friedhoff says.