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JANUARY 18, 2019, Discussions about the Korean peninsula’s potential denuclearization continue this week as North Korean officials meet in Washington with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. According to a new report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a plurality of South Koreans say the...

American public opinion is increasingly at odds with US President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy. Fifty years of Chicago Council on Global Affairs polling reveals why the "America First" agenda has prevailed—and where it might break down.

The Observer's Giles Whittell and ECFR's Dr. Jana Puglierin unpack what this year's Munich Security Conference revealed.

October 28, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, Korean Central News Agency via AP, Download Report (PDF), The public is open to resuming talks with Pyongyang under certain conditions and sees benefits from trade with Seoul., The US-South Korea alliance remains one of the most ...

June 20, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura, Evan Vucci / AP, Download Report (PDF), The gap between Democrats and Republicans on America's NATO commitment has reached an all-time high in Council polling dating back to 1974., As the NATO summit approaches on June...

April 20, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Karl Friedhoff , Craig Kafura , Joshua Busby , and Jonathan Monten, The White House, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), The 2016 Opinion Leader Survey showed that, for the most part, there was a bipartisan consensus among US ...

Thinking about Pakistan as a South Asian power misses the fact that it has regional connections to the Middle East—and global power connections it can leverage.

September 19, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Bettina Hammer, David Sandoz, Download Report (PDF), This survey finds most Americans still consider Iran’s nuclear program a critical threat, but at lower levels before 2015 nuclear deal., Introduction, The 2019 Chicago Coun...