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Bruce Jentleson is professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, where he previously served as director of the Terry Sanford Institute (now Sanford School) of Public Policy. He is a leading scholar of American foreign policy and has ...



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http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/20/the-much-over-hyped-trump-effect-american-pu... Dina Smeltz, Sara McElmurry January 20, 2016 Foreign PolicyNorth America, Public Opinion, Global ImmigrationPublic Opinion, Global ImmigrationNorth America Dina Smeltz, Sa ...


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Conducted shortly after the terrorist events of September 11, 2001, this study reveals critical shifts in American domestic and foreign policies in response to a post-9/11 world. Shocked by a newfound vulnerability to international terrorism, Americans hav ...


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Three years after the September 11 attacks of 2001, terrorism and other security threats still loom large in the public’s mind. However, there is a lowered sense of threat overall compared to 2002, and the domestic concern of protecting American jobs is no ...


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Americans believe that democracies, although a desirable form of government, do not make the world a safer place.  The experience in Iraq has made Americans feel less supportive of using military force to bring about democracy, as evidenced by a large bipa ...


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The study presents a unique comparison of international attitudes on how the emergence of China and India as economic dynamos and claimants to great power status will affect the global economy, international security, and politics. It assesses American pub ...



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A key challenge is for people to understand the perspectives of people in other nations: seeing how they differ and how they converge. This follow-up study to The Chicago Council's 2006 public opinion survey features topical reports on key internation ...


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RTX13YNH.jpg Karl Friedhoff's blog This piece has been updated to inlucde new polling numbers from Realmeter on the closure of Kaesong. The decision by South Korea’s Park Geun-Hye to shutter the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) was long in coming. Th ...