Global Policy Outlook Series: Societal Polarization & Nationalism, H1 2025

Morning Consult’s Global Policy Outlook series provides monthly analysis of global sentiment on key issues at the intersection of politics and economics across 19 of the world’s largest markets, along with our six-month forecast of where policymaking is headed.

This edition assesses global public sentiment surrounding societal polarization and nationalism.

Heading into H2 2025, business leaders should take note: While global public sentiment has begun to turn against isolationism, consumer markets in Western Europe remain the exception, with many consumers in those markets continuing to embrace an inward economic turn that could have negative repercussions for U.S. multinationals. Immigration meanwhile continues to rile the public the world over, but with a notable counter-trend emerging in the United States.

Key issues covered in the context of these dynamics include:

• Global trends in national pride and societal trust
• Views on isolationism by country and region
• Analysis of shifting sentiment surrounding immigration, with an uptick in pro-immigration sentiment in the United States visible across the partisan divide

Corporate decision-makers, risk management and financial services professionals, and public sector entities rely on this report series to understand how public sentiment is trending across critical policy areas and make business, investment and public sector decisions accordingly.