Skip to main content

Institutional Change and an Intersectional Approach to Supporting Women in Science

BLOG
Global Food for Thought by Katelyn Jones

Ensuring women's access to information, training, and technology can ensure land and resources alike are used more sustainably.

A female farmer plants transplants at a farm in Pennsylvania
Zoe Schaeffer
Women and Girls

Trump's Interest in Buying Greenland Seemed Like a Joke. Then It Got Ugly.

In the News
The New York Times
Ivo H. Daalder

The president of the United States on Wednesday attacked the prime minister of Denmark because she will not sell him Greenland—and found the very notion "absurd."

Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark, rejected President Trump’s interest in purchasing Greenland. Global Politics

The Next Battleground in Trump's Trade War: Vietnam

In the News
The Diplomat
Alexander Hitch

Vietnam is likely the Trump administration’s next trade target. But the calculus differs in key ways from China.

Global Economy

Expressing Appreciation and Announcing a Transition

BLOG
Global Food for Thought by Alesha Miller

After nearly four years at the Council, Alesha Miller, Center on Global Food and Agriculture managing director, steps down.

The conference center at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Food and Agriculture

Kashmir Is the 72-Year 'Wound' between India and Pakistan

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Bloomberg's Nisid Hajari and Paul Staniland of the University of Chicago join Deep Dish to discuss how the decision to revoke Kashmir's special autonomy has once again torn open tensions between India and Pakistan.

Demonstrators protest the scrapping of the special constitutional status in Kashmir by the Indian government, outside the Indian High Commission in London
Reuters
Global Politics

Japan-South Korea Feud Threatens Regional Stability and Security

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Alexis Dudden of the University of Connecticut and the Council’s Karl Friedhoff join Deep Dish to discuss the bad blood between Japan and South Korea.

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha meets with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo
Reuters
Defense and Security

John Gans on the National Security Council

Video Series
Wait Just a Minute

University of Pennsylvania's John Gans joins us for this episode of Wait Just a Minute.

Screenshot of John Gans speaking on-screen Defense and Security

Will Ambassador Subnat Go to Washington?

BLOG
Global Insight by Ian Klaus

The proposed "City and State Diplomacy Act" would establish an ambassador for subnational engagements by state and municipal governments.

US Capital building at night Global Cities

In Korea-Japan Dispute, Japanese Public Backs Export Controls

BLOG
Running Numbers by Craig Kafura

Relations between Japan and South Korea are in free fall, with the two key US allies in Asia engaged in a steadily escalating economic conflict.

View of the Port of Busan from Busan Tower, South Korea Public Opinion

While the U.S. looks away, Asia stirs with turmoil

In the News
The Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

North Korea is continuing to improve its nuclear capabilities. And political and economic relations between Japan and South Korea are deteriorating rapidly.

South Korean protesters hold up cards calling for a boycott of Japanese products during a rally Global Politics