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Craig Kafura's blog It's been a busy, eventful year around the world. Throughout 2018, the Council's polling team has captured public and opinion leader attitudes on some of the most pressing foreign policy issues, including US-Russia relat ...



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Karl Friedhoff's blog The recent spat between Japan and South Korea over a naval encounter has once again spotlighted poor relations between two important US allies. While not new, this friction is usually driven by historical issues stemming from Ja ...



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The federal government remains in a partial shutdown, the longest in US history, as President Trump and Democrats in Congress are deadlocked over funding for expanding the border wall with Mexico. A just-completed Chicago Council Survey shows that both si ...


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Karl Friedhoff's blog The United States and South Korea are currently negotiating host nation support for the 28,500 US troops in the country and negotiations are not going well. The Trump administration has demanded that South Korea double its contr ...


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https://www.pacforum.org/analysis/pacnet-10-%E2%80%93-americas-two-track-asia-po... February 5, 2019 Pacific ForumLester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy, Public Opinion, AsiaLester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy, Public OpinionAsia Craig Kafura ...


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https://warontherocks.com/2019/02/trump-kim-and-the-three-ps-of-summit-diplomacy... February 7, 2019 War on the RocksPublic Opinion, North AmericaPublic OpinionNorth America Bruce Jentleson ...


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img_6519.jpg Wall in Granada Dina Smeltz's blog img_6519.jpg Graffiti in Granada, Nicaragua Times are tough in Nicaragua. On April 18-19, protesters from two movements took to the streets to criticize the Sandinista government response to forest fire ...


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Karl Friedhoff's blog It’s already well documented that the American public isn’t overly worried about the China threat, despite the emerging consensus among foreign policy experts. Dan Drezner called this the China gap in a recent Washington Post ar ...