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"Chinese satellites fly over the United States every day," Nonresident Senior Fellow Bruce Jentleson tells Steve Scully. "That doesn't make a headline the way a balloon does."

There was no way for Blinken’s Beijing trip to go on as planned and not focus inordinately on the balloon incident, argues Paul Heer.

The WHO has officially declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic. How is the public reacting around the world?

The authors of this book address multiple questions involving the nature of youth protest in the twenty-first century.

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford remarks on the foreign policy details of President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address.

This report says that Americans remain supportive of the US military presence in Japan.

The 2018 Chicago Council on Global Affairs Survey finds the largest majorities of Americans yet say that trade is good for the US economy and consumers.

But a majority oppose sending US troops if China were to invade the island.

Inevitably, the COVID-19 pandemic will change how people across the world think about foreign relations. Craig Kafura looks at Australia as a case study for how these changes affect public opinion.

Analysis from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs of the world’s largest economic entities reveals the economic influence of cities.

In picking fronts that offer the paths of least resistance, trilateral cooperation will maximize the presence of all three countries in ASEAN, maintaining balance in the region and making collective progress toward economic and development goals.

New data from the Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Council offer insights on how publics in the United States and Japan view the relationship between their countries.

NPR's Sarah McCammon and Ivo Daalder discuss the 2021 NATO summit and what it means for the future of the alliance.

Leaders from the US and Europe have much to learn from one another in building strategies to foster economic renewal in formerly industrial regions.

Dina Smeltz and Brendan Helm analyze new public opinion data showing there is partisan agreement on how best to respond to the recent Russian hack.

Global cities are products of a liberal world order that is under threat from the rise of populist nationalism, protectionism, and growing authoritarianism.

As competition between the United States and China intensifies, more Americans now say the Asian country is more powerful economically, a reversal from two years ago when a plurality said the United States had an economic advantage, according to a

With an extension on Brexit in place, we revisit the prospects of a future trade agreement between the UK and the US.  

Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.

Weekly analysis of public opinion as governments around the world impose increasing restrictions and the number of active cases surges.