According to a survey conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and WorldPublicOpinion.org, most of world's population think the U.S. fails to perform the role of the world leader. The survey includes 17 countries—China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, Poland, Iran, Mexico, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Israel, Armenia—and the Palestinian territories. These represent more than 55 percent of the world population. Majority turns down the idea that the United States, as the only super power, should dominate in resolution of world problems and offer the U.S. cooperation with the other countries for the purpose.

38 percent of Russians and 34 percent of Ukrainians think that the U.S. should abandon the idea of solving the problems alone. This index shows a high degree of aversion to U.S. foreign policy that was earlier so vividly demonstrated by Argentineans and Palestinians only. In the U.S. 10 percent stand for total leadership of their country, 75 percent offer to share the burden of responsibility with other states, 12 percent propose to focus on domestic problems.

58 percent of the Armenian population do not trust the U.S. Extremely high index of distrust was fixed in Russia (73 percent) and France (72 percent).

Majority of population of 13 out of 15 states think that the U.S. abuses the role of a "world policeman", Washington ProFile reports.