Geopolitical debates on power and competition in the Arctic have been around since the Cold War. Is a new flashpoint ahead or is the danger overblown?

April 20, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lily Wojtowicz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Russians and Americans seem to sense a global alignment of democracies versus autocracies, and both publics fear a nuclear exchange., The current c...

March 28, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lily Wojtowicz, Eurasian Women's Forum, Download Report (PDF), Findings from a new US-Russia binational survey, conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Levada Analytical Center, reveal that publics in both countr...

October 4, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), Six in 10 continue to support providing economic aid and sending additional arms and military supplies to the Ukrainian government, down slightly from a year ago., Continued economic ...

Dina Smeltz and Brendan Helm discuss President Biden's extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

Is the looming economic crisis influencing the public’s preferred response to the war in Ukraine? Recent polling suggests it's possible.

February 11, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , and Denis Volkov, Dmitri Lovetsky / AP, Download Report (PDF), But the public is more ready than ever to enter peace negotiations., Despite suffering heavy military casualties, recruitment and equipment challenges in...

July 11, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lily Wojtowicz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), The Russian public is concerned about NATO expansion but does not think an attack from the West is imminent., At this week’s NATO summit, enlarg...

"Intentions matter," Council President Ivo Daalder explains in a conversation with CNN's Jim Sciutto after President Biden's first NATO meetings.

Has President Biden done enough to reassure America's allies? Council President Ivo Daalder joins MSNBC to discuss.