September 22, 2020, RESEARCH Report by Samuel Kling and Lucas Stephens, PhD, Eric Allix Rogers, Download Report (PDF), The growing role of federal and state money in combatting erosion and flooding at Chicago’s Lake Michigan shore offers an opportunity to mandate local governments make their be...

Joint surveys on Korean and American attitudes conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and international partners.

March 3, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , and Denis Volkov, Dmitri Lovetsky / AP, Download Report (PDF), Most believe Russia should continue to pursue an independent foreign policy despite the sanctions, which are attributed to the West’s hostility and misunde...

October 16, 2023, RESEARCH Working Paper by Simon Curtis, AP Photos, Download the Report (PDF), The success of ambitious states will be determined by their ability to shape global infrastructures and the cities they connect around the world., When President Biden announced the Build Back Better W...

September 27, 2023, RESEARCH Working Paper by John Austin and Lucas Kreuzer, AP Photos, Download the Report (PDF), The regeneration strategies of the former industrial areas of Pittsburgh in the US and Germany's Ruhr offer lessons for other regions in economic transition., Industrial regions acro...

August 8, 2023, RESEARCH Report by Kris Hartley, iStock, Download the Report (PDF), This report outlines how cities and the private sector can collaborate on and magnify sustainability efforts that enable broad systemic change., Sustainability efforts require not only public policy interventions ...

February 1, 2023, RESEARCH Working Paper by Julie Miao, Julie Miao, Download Report (PDF), The Port of Darwin shows the potential of China's Belt and Road Initiative as social infrastructure, but also the challenges in materializing its benefits., The case of Darwin Port reveals the emerging infr...

May 2, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Alexander Hitch, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This report explores ways cities can assess the true value of their public assets, Introduction, Cities seeking to pursue such strategies need a systematic way to assess the true value of their public assets, to dev...

August 7, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Samuel Kling, Tinou Bao, Download Report (PDF), The new paradigm of "mobility as a service" promises to change how people move, with local and global ramifications., Introduction, The new paradigm of "mobility as a service" (MaaS)-offering myriad, integrat...

June 9, 2022, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Ivo H. Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, iStock, Download Report (PDF), The world's democracies need a way to fight back against coercive economic actions by authoritarian governments, argue Ivo Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen., Increasingly, authoritaria...