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The US public is now equally split on whether Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza is justified or not.

Council Distinguished Fellow and Former Executive Director of the World Food Program Catherine Bertini reflects on why elevating women and girls worldwide matters.

Americans want to play an active part in world affairs but are reassessing their foreign policy priorities and how they want to engage with the world.

The 2008 Chicago Council Survey focuses on attitudes about foreign policy prior to the triggering of the international financial crisis in the fall of 2008.

Young Russians may be more likely than their elders to give Israel the benefit of the doubt in its conflict with Hamas.

The US strategy toward Africa today is neither effective nor sustainable. It’s time to flip the script.

Hostage taking is as old as time, but today the world faces new tactics and unprecedented challenges; what can be done?

Balancing power or increasing risk? Deep Dish explores what a multilateral defense pact for Asia might mean.

A majority support using US troops to defend Seoul should North Korea invade, Council polling shows.

More than half also say the decline of democracies around the world, foreign interference in American elections, and the conflict in the Middle East pose critical threats to vital US interests.

Explore the complex history of the Gaza Strip, the rise of Hamas, and the implications for the current conflict.

The 2024 Chicago Council Survey finds there is often less division than imagined when it comes to long-standing pillars of US foreign policy.

Carol Giacomo of the New York Times, Stefan Kornelius of Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Edward Luce of the Financial Times joined Council President Ivo Daalder to analyze global news.

With all eyes on Ukraine, it is unclear if a seventh North Korean nuclear test will really register with the American public.