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Recent data shows Americans prefer diplomatic options first, but there is also record support for defending Ukraine. 

Most Americans see military power and security alliances as an effective way to achieve foreign policy goals, but differences emerge about when to deploy troops.

Washington has started selling arms that serve a "porcupine" defense strategy to Taiwan. Whether Taipei fully embraces this new approach remains to be seen.

Research Associate Ethan Kessler explains the benefits and drawbacks of what’s become a major US foreign policy tool.

2021 Chicago Council Survey data show a majority of Americans support a range of US policies towards Taiwan: recognition as an independent country, inclusion in international organizations, and a US-Taiwan free trade agreement.

While some areas of the world continue to see population growth—many countries in Africa, for example—fertility rates are falling everywhere else. What does that mean for geopolitics?

Explore the complex history of the Gaza Strip, the rise of Hamas, and the implications for the current conflict.

But public opinion is sharply divided along partisan lines, 2022 Chicago Council Survey data finds.

New Chicago Council-Japan Institute of International Affairs data find the Japanese public has greater confidence in US economic and military power than do Americans.

One year later, Americans remain divided over what happened on January 6, 2021. But they're united in concerns about future political violence.

Consensus on how long to provide economic and military aid to Ukraine appears to be weakening as the war enters its tenth month.

2021 Chicago Council Survey data show that a majority of Americans hold favorable views of South Korea and would support defending the country from a North Korean attack.

A majority of the US public continues to back current military and financial aid to Kyiv, recent polls find.

A new Chicago Council-Levada poll reveals the Russian public appears to be buying Putin's explanation for "military operation" in Ukraine.

While two-thirds of Americans overall continue to support the withdrawal, a majority of Republicans now oppose it, a new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Ipsos reveals.

International Crisis Group’s Laurel Miller and former US Ambassador to Afghanistan P. Michael McKinley join Deep Dish to explain what the United States and the world should do to help the Afghan people.

For the first time, a majority of Republicans think the United States should stay out of world affairs.

While understandable, the mood of pessimism around COP27 obscures progress toward net zero and can be dangerously self-fulfilling, argues Chris Morris.

New survey data shows a partisan divide on what Americans believe is the greatest threat to the United States: Democrats rank violent white nationalist groups the highest, while Republicans list China as the greatest threat.