August 21, 2023, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Emma Sanderson, AP Photos, America’s unconditional security sector assistance has helped facilitate Ethiopia’s violent responses to opposition., Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country and the oldest independent nation on the continent. Fr...

August 21, 2023, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Ethan Kessler, AP Photos, US security assistance meant for counterterrorism efforts is also implicated in the government’s war against Anglophone separatists., Cameroon is a country of 29 million straddling West and Central Africa, rich in natural resou...

September 25, 2023, RESEARCH Report by Karl Friedhoff, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), Advancing the group's pillars of prosperity and development will be at the very heart of competition with China in the coming decade., The Quad—the country grouping including the United States, Japan, Austr...

January 23, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Emily Sullivan , Dina Smeltz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), But those feeling an economic pinch are more likely to say that Moscow should enter peace negotiations., According to the US State Department, th...

October 13, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Xiangming Chen, Reuters, Even as the war in Ukraine creates risks, the extensive city-based CEFT network remains resilient from its continued expansion, improved infrastructure, and operational adaptability., China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will offic...

July 7, 2021, RESEARCH Report by Ichiro Fujisaki , Han Sung-Joo , James B. Steinberg , and Karl Friedhoff, REUTERS, Download Report (PDF), A report from the Task Force on Trilateral Cooperation Amid China’s Rise recommends a new policy mix that leverages each country’s individual strengths an...

October 11, 2006, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Marshall M. Bouton , Catherine Hug , Steven Kull , Mike Kulma , Benjamin I. Page , Teresita C. Schaffer , Silvia Veltcheva , Christopher B. Whitney , and Dali L. Yang, Samuel Branch, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), The 2006 Chicago Co...