Blog Posts

People in both Japan and South Korea agree on the primary issues that need to be resolved in order to improve the relationship.

Partisanship has become a major factor in foreign policy attitudes in Chicago Council Surveys; not so long-ago opinions on foreign policy seemed immune to partisan impulses.

In 2018, the Council captured public and opinion leader attitudes on some of the most pressing foreign policy issues.

Global cities are the best candidates to form novel transnational political assemblages that can scale up to the level of global challenges.

Our international affairs are still being determined by nation-states, however, the imbalance between cities and nation-states is no longer acceptable.

Results from the 2018 Chicago Council Survey indicate that trust in American political institutions is extremely low—especially so for congress.

Both the United States and Germany are seeing evolving economies in their respective "rust belts," formerly robust engines of the industrial era.

For decades, the United States has been the driving force pushing for new rules to govern world trade. What if the other major countries of the world assumed that mantle in our absence? It’s happening.

The product of a three-year effort, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's On to 2050 plan stresses big ideas but tells a more modest story.

Not all Republicans share President Trump's "America First" policies. Council expert Dina Smeltz explains where "Trump Republicans" and "Non-Trump Republicans" differ.