Council experts analyze global public opinion on COVID-19 after deaths in the United States surpassed the deaths from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

October 25, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Ethan Kessler, Wang Yu Ching, Download Report (PDF), Washington has started selling arms that serve a "porcupine" defense strategy to Taiwan. Whether Taipei fully embraces this new approach remains to be seen., Taiwan, claimed by China as a rogue province and ...

October 19, 2015

More Americans felt drone strikes against suspected terrorists makes the US safer. However, Millennials were more skeptical, with nearly half saying they make the US less safe.

June 24, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , and Lama El Baz, Carlos Barria / Pool via AP, Download Report (PDF), Many hesitate to give their opinions on the conflict, but attitudes seem to fall along partisan lines on whether the United States made the right move...

A survey of American foreign policy experts paints a portrait of a declining Russia, with its broad influence deteriorating as China’s influence rises.

September 10, 2025

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...