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Jamil Anderlini, Bobby Ghosh, and Susan Glasser join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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A newsletter from Crain’s Chicago Business and the Council. Each Sunday evening, we bring you fascinating coverage of Chicago's role in the wider world — and the ways global connections shape our lives here at home.
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Informing US foreign policy and national security discussions and debates through public opinion research, policy analysis, and public engagement.

Elevating global cities as central actors shaping world affairs and advancing city-based solutions to global challenges.
Meet Our Experts

Elizabeth Shackelford
Senior Fellow, US Foreign Policy
Elizabeth Shackelford, a former career diplomat who served the US Mission to Somalia and the US Embassy in South Sudan, focuses on building awareness and understanding of a "restraint" approach to foreign policy, which seeks to limit the use of force to core US security interests and favors diplomatic engagement.

Peggy Tsai Yih
Managing Director, Center on Global Food and Agriculture
Peggy Tsai Yih leads the Council’s continued work on global food and nutrition security and in advancing a more sustainable and resilient food system. She has 20 years of experience in food, agriculture, and natural resource policy, with nearly 15 years at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington, DC.

Sascha Haselmayer
Nonresident Fellow, Global Cities
Sascha Haselmayer is a social entrepreneur who has led urban innovation, economic development, and government innovation projects in over 40 countries. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London and is a globally recognized expert on social entrepreneurship, social change, and urban and local government innovation.

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The US strategy toward Africa today is neither effective nor sustainable. It’s time to flip the script.

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Samuel Kling, Florita Gunasekara, and Steven Bosacker examine the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.

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Regenerative agriculture can help our food and agricultural systems become more resilient.
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