THE WORLD, CONNECTED
EVIDENCE-BACKED RELATIONSHIP LISTS

How countries rank their relationships

See the strongest and most difficult relationships from five major viewpoints, plus the largest differences between how two countries assess one another. Only pages with substantial reviewed evidence are included.

These are relationship rankings, not rankings of countries.

Scores describe a direction — one country toward another — under methodology v1.1.1. Differences below five points are practical ties, and missing evidence is never treated as neutral evidence.

FIVE VIEWPOINTS

Strongest and most difficult relationships

Each list uses only indexable directions with documented qualitative evidence.

DIRECTION MATTERS

Largest differences between two viewpoints

A large gap means the current evidence and rules produce meaningfully different assessments in each direction.