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Overshadowed by global trade conflicts, the pending EU-Mercosur trade pact underlines the shifting global trade landscape away from a US-led international trade order.

Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura argue that a majority of Americans support backing Taiwan as the U.S. has backed Ukraine, as long as U.S. troops aren’t involved.

Council surveys find an American public split on the threat of climate change but open to cooperative efforts to limit its effects.

Opinion surveys conducted in both the United States and Russia reflect similar disappointment and continued mistrust among the general publics.

The UN General Assembly has asked the ICJ to advise on whether Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is legal. 

Arik Burakovsky, Dina Smeltz, and Brendan Helm find that while experts anticipate changes in the global balance of power in the next 20 years, with China overtaking the United States, they do not expect Russia to come out stronger.

Paul Poast unpacks various arguments about whether China's rise poses an actual threat to the United States.

For more than a century, tattoo artists have connected Chicagoans with other countries and cultures — a tradition that lives on, even as the industry changes.