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Reflect on the year with highlights from the Council's public opinion research and analysis.

The success of ambitious states will be determined by their ability to shape global infrastructures and the cities they connect around the world.

Deborah Amos, Bobby Ghosh, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Biden-era surveys affirm continued support for the intelligence community but also signal growing partisanship.

“Both sides continue to pursue policies that appear aimed more at competition and confrontation,” writes Paul Heer in the National Interest.

While some areas of the world continue to see population growth—many countries in Africa, for example—fertility rates are falling everywhere else. What does that mean for geopolitics?

Latin America expert Peter Schechter and veteran diplomat Cecile Shea join this week’s Deep Dish to discuss varying opinions on Venezuela’s two claimants to power, Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro.

China's Zero-COVID policy was "meant to be living proof of a superior system of governance," writes Kris Hartley in the Diplomat.

Blinken’s China visit “could pave the way for a direct summit between US President Joe Biden and Xi,” writes Nonresident Fellow Paul Poast.

"The G-7 approach has three facets: ignore Russian intimidation, economically decouple from China and court nations throughout the Global South," Paul Poast writes.

We breakdown the mystery behind the BRICS and its evolving role in shaping the global order.

America saw inaccurate polling for the House and Senate races across the country, which overestimated Democratic support in a wide range of races.

It's been a busy 2021. Recap the year with the survey team's analyses of public opinion on the most critical issues at home and around the world.

Experts Duncan Wood, Laura Dawson, and Phil Levy join Deep Dish to discuss what's in the new NAFTA agreement and its significance on the global economy.

The incident reflects the emerging adversarial pathology of US-China relations, which is increasingly obstructing any efforts at mutual understanding, Paul Heer writes.

Is conflict inevitable between the two superpowers? Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer joins Jacob Heilbrunn and Elbridge A. Colby to discuss.