July 17, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Lama El Baz , Heela Rasool-Ayub , Candace Rondeaux , and Christopher Shell, Patrick Semansky / AP, The Council partnered with New America to explore how Americans across backgrounds view key issues facing the world toda...

March 26, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , and Denis Volkov, Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP, Download Report (PDF), While the public thinks Putin’s foreign policies have improved Moscow’s international influence and the state of the Russian military, fewer no...

May 12, 2026, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Vahid Salemi / AP, Download Report (PDF), But Republicans stand in stark contrast, favoring the Trump administration’s actions in Iran., The US-Israeli war against Iran remains at a stalemate after US President Donald ...

April 22, 2021, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Amir Farmanesh , and Brendan Helm, Reuters, A new poll shows Iranians recognize the economic and security benefits of a closer relationship with China., China has significantly increased its involvement and cooperation with Iran. Las...

December 17, 2020, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, US Army, Download Report (PDF), Overall, Americans prefer to maintain defense spending. But Democrats, younger people, and those with a college education prefer cuts, while Republicans prefer expansion., On December 8, the House v...

December 1, 2016, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff and Craig Kafura, Pete Souza, Download Report (PDF), Changes in the public's opinion within the last year will offer some insight into the stability of the relationship between the United States and China., Introduction, There is ...

April 20, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Karl Friedhoff , Craig Kafura , Joshua Busby , and Jonathan Monten, The White House, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), The 2016 Opinion Leader Survey showed that, for the most part, there was a bipartisan consensus among US ...

January 30, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz and Jinwan Park, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), More Americans consider issues like weakening democracy and political polarization to be critical threats to the United States than foreign adversaries., Although the world is brimmi...

January 13, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik via AP, Download Report (PDF), The public shares the Kremlin's dim view of Western powers and wants to boost cooperation with BRICS members., In the last decade, Russian President Vladimi...

September 11, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Karl Friedhoff, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Although survey data shows that majorities of Americans continue to think that international terrorism is the most critical threat to the US, the overall public is not convinced t...