April 13, 2000, RESEARCH Report by Richard C. Longworth, Allen McGregor/Flickr, Download Report (PDF), America’s cities are becoming increasingly important actors on the global stage. The idea that cities must reflexively submit to impersonal global forces is giving way to the recognition that ...

December 13, 2012, RESEARCH Working Paper by Craig Kafura, Jermaine M. Ralliford, Download Report (PDF), This paper analyzes whether the strong relationship between the US and South Korea would be sustained under new presidents and how the Korean and American public’s view the alliance., Key Fi...

October 4, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), But partisan divisions over using US troops to defend allies in Europe and Asia are growing., The 2023 Chicago Council Survey, conducted September 7–18, 2023, finds Americans overall favor long-te...

October 7, 2021, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Ivo H. Daalder , Karl Friedhoff , Craig Kafura , and Emily Sullivan, iStock, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), While the Biden administration seems to understand where Americans stand on China and domestic renewal to suppor...

October 6, 2016, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Ivo H. Daalder , Karl Friedhoff , and Craig Kafura, Wikimedia Commons, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), Over the past year, Donald Trump has been able to channel the anxieties of a significant segment of the American publi...

April 26, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Thomas Reardon, Download Report (PDF), Feeding cities presents a major opportunity to improve the plight of millions of small-scale farmers and rural residents trapped in subsistence agriculture and joblessness., Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World,...

December 12, 2017, RESEARCH Report by Grace Burton , Marcus Glassman , and Alesha Miller, Download Report (PDF), Ensuring smallholder farmers receive agricultural information is of critical importance for realizing global food security, and the USDA has a prominent role to play in close partnersh...

November 16, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Emily Sullivan, Reuters, While half of Americans and a majority of Democrats say diversity makes the United States a better place to live, Republicans aren’t so sure., Key Findings, A majority of Americans (53%)—including m...

August 1, 2016, RESEARCH Working Paper by Karen Weigert, Download Report (PDF), Karen Weigert examines research, initial findings, potential implications, and suggestions for future research on benchmarking and energy efficiency programs., In 2013, the City of Chicago passed the Chicago Energy Be...

May 22, 2014, RESEARCH Report by Gerald C. Nelson, Download Report (PDF), This report urges the US government to take action to curb the risks climate change poses to global food security., Introduction, On May 22, 2014, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released a report urging the US govern...