Recent polls find a geographic divide in the region when it comes to public perceptions of the conflict.

“The choice really now is Moscow. It can either engage in diplomacy or see the kinds of measures that President Biden laid out,” Ivo Daalder explains on CNN.

September 2, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Sam Dong , Craig Kafura , Yawei Liu , and Nick Zeller, Pavel Bednyakov / AP, Download Report (PDF), Other neighboring countries, including Japan, India, the Philippines, and Vietnam, are viewed less favorably., New research conduc...

March 26, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , and Denis Volkov, Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP, Download Report (PDF), While the public thinks Putin’s foreign policies have improved Moscow’s international influence and the state of the Russian military, fewer no...

Nirmal Ghosh, Carla Anne Robbins, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Karen DeYoung, Steve Erlanger, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Far-right National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen has joined the French presidential race. Her victory would spark a complete departure from French foreign policy under Macron.

January 28, 2026, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Lama El Baz , and Sam Dong, Download Report (PDF), Results and analysis of the Council's 2025 annual survey of American views on foreign policy., Chicago Council Survey Dashboard, Explore five decades of American att...

February 9, 2017, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Eugene Rumer , Richard Sokolsky , and Andrew S. Weiss, Alex Zarubi, Download Report (PDF), A joint task force outlines some key principles and judgments in managing the United States' relationships with Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia., Developing an effect...