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What Is NATO's Biggest Success and Its Biggest Failure?

Video Series
#AskIvo

Council President and former US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder answers a question about the NATO alliance's biggest success and its biggest failure.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and other members of NATO Ministers of Defense and of Foreign Affairs meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
Sgt. Jerry Morrison
Defense and Security

Sean McFate on the Future of War

Video Series
Wait Just a Minute

Former US paratrooper Sean McFate joins us in this episode of Wait Just a Minute.

Screenshot of Sean McFate speaking on-screen Defense and Security

Expert Panel Survey: US Focus on the Denuclearization of North Korea

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Running Numbers by Craig Kafura

Craig Kafura explains what foreign policy experts think about the denuclearization of North Korea.

US President Trump and Kim Jong-Un.
Reuters
Defense and Security

Deep Divisions Across the Atlantic

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Global Insight by Ivo H. Daalder

Ivo Daalder discusses the annual Munich Security Conference.

Angela Merkel giving a keynote speech in 2019
Kristof Roomp
Global Politics

China's Blockbuster Influence in Hollywood

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Movie producer Lynda Obst and Orville Schell of the Asia Society join Deep Dish to examine how China is changing the US box office.

View of the Hollywood sign from above, in Los Angeles, California.
Justin Aikin
Global Politics

America shrugs while democracy around the world retreats

In the News
Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

For the 13th year in a row, freedom declined around the world — with more countries falling down freedom’s ranks than moving up.

President Donald Trump speaks at the Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs Association Joint Conference in Washington US Foreign Policy

America the Dangerous

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Running Numbers by Karl Friedhoff

The United States is perceived as a greater threat around the world, is unable to convince its own public of what it has deemed a threat (China) and will struggle to enlist the help of allies.

The Chinese flag waves behind barbed wire at the border crossing.
Macau Photo Agency
Public Opinion

China's Slow Growth and America's Missing Trade Deal

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Global economics expert Phil Levy joins this week's Deep Dish podcast to explain what's going on between the US and China, and how lessons from the US shutdown might help explain what will happen next.

President Xi Jinping
Michel Temer
Global Economy

US Presidential Power and Its Limits

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Harold Hongju Koh, former Legal Adviser at the US State Department, joins Council President Ivo Daalder and Brian Hanson to discuss Koh's new book, The Trump Administration and International Law.

The White House in Washington, DC
Tabrez Syed
Global Politics

Seven Examples Where Partisan Divisions on Foreign Policy Widened in 2018

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

Partisanship has become a major factor in foreign policy attitudes in Chicago Council Surveys; not so long-ago opinions on foreign policy seemed immune to partisan impulses.

The American and NATO flags
NATO
Public Opinion