February 14, 2018, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Emma Chanlett-Avery, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This brief analyzes the 2017 ASEAN summit where four of the region's major maritime democracies discussed the revival of quadrilateral cooperation for a free and open Indo-Pacific., At the Association...

May 24, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz, Avi Waxman, Download Report (PDF), While our other surveys have notes things such as party affiliation, gender, and age, the 2016 Chicago Council Survey also differentiated between urban, suburban, and rural locations., Understanding Bo...

January 18, 2018, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura , Dina Smeltz , Duncan Wood , Esteban Guzmán Saucedo , and Rene Bautista, Christian Frausto Bernal, Download Report (PDF) Topline Report (PDF), Mexican public opinion of the US is at a record low, while American views of Mexico rem...

March 30, 2017, RESEARCH Book by Roger Thurow, We revisit the families profiled in Council senior fellow Roger Thurow's book, The Last Hunger Season, six years later., Six years after its publication, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow returns to Western Kenya to revisit the farm families first p...

February 9, 2017, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Eugene Rumer , Richard Sokolsky , and Andrew S. Weiss, Alex Zarubi, Download Report (PDF), A joint task force outlines some key principles and judgments in managing the United States' relationships with Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia., Developing an effect...

February 1, 2017, RESEARCH Report, Download Report (PDF), This joint report examines the public opinion of changes taking place in the Asia-Pacific, including mutual concerns and competing visions, in order to make better-informed policy decisions., Executive Summary, With rapidly evolving develo...

November 2, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff and Max Goldsmith, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), President Trump’s skepticism on climate change and decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is out of step with the American public overall., On June 1, 2017, Presi...

October 9, 2017, RESEARCH Book by Ivo H. Daalder , Dina Smeltz , and Craig Kafura, George Bakos, This book, meant for students in American foreign policy, gives a broad introduction to a wide range of domestic factors that influence US policymakers., The seventh edition of this leading reader for...

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 ...

October 6, 2016, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Ivo H. Daalder , Karl Friedhoff , and Craig Kafura, Wikimedia Commons, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), Over the past year, Donald Trump has been able to channel the anxieties of a significant segment of the American publi...