This week’s incidents speak to a growing, and concerning, trust deficit between the United States and its closest European ally.   

April 14, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz and Denis Volkov, Leo Correa / AP, Download Report (PDF), After a decade of involvement in Syria, some Russians are eager to withdraw their forces from the country., The formation of a new transitional government after the ouster of f...

Ken Moriyasu, Catherine Philp, and Prashant Rao join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

From the United Kingdom to China, youth unemployment has been a point of concern. But across the world there is also a growing number of young people who aren’t in school, don’t have a job, and aren’t in any sort of vocational training.

Despite its small size, Qatar has historically played an outsize role in negotiating with organizations or countries that the U.S. doesn’t have relations with.

In 2022, there were about 170,000 troops stationed outside of the U.S. and its territories, according to the Department of Defense. As of June 2023, there were over 30,000 troops stationed in the Middle East alone, before America expanded its military presence following Hamas' attack on Israel i...

September 10, 2012, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz, Radek Kucharski, Download Report (PDF), After a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans recognize China’s growing influence and Asia’s importance to the US., Key Findings, For the first time since the question was fir...

In his first speech as National Security Advisor, Bolton threatened to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) judges, bar them from traveling to the US, and use US courts to prosecute them.

September 10, 2012, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Marshall M. Bouton , and Rachel Bronson, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), The 2012 Chicago Council Survey tracks public opinion on US foreign policy since the September 11 attacks, and includes an assessm...