March 23, 2016, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Nicole Fisher, Camilo Jimenez, Download Report (PDF), The recommended policy changes would not only address issues in the Midwest, but would help ensure an improvement in healthcare across the country., Executive Summary, Healthcare is a critical part of t...

August 21, 2023, RESEARCH Report by Elizabeth Shackelford , Ethan Kessler , and Emma Sanderson, USA AFRICOM, Download Report (PDF), The US strategy toward Africa today is neither effective nor sustainable. It’s time to flip the script., US policy in Africa has for too long prioritized short-ter...

June 16, 2015, RESEARCH Book by Saeid Golkar, Julia Maudlin, Captive Society surveys the Basij's history, structure, and sociology, as well as its influence on Iranian society, its economy, and its educational system., Iran's Basij Resistance Force is a paramilitary organization used by the regim...

August 6, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Brendan Helm , Lily Wojtowicz , and Arik Burakovsky, Eurasian Women's Forum, Download Report (PDF), Recent surveys conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Levada Analytical Center reveal that large majorities of both Russians an...

October 29, 2018, RESEARCH Report by Ian Klaus, Download Report (PDF), While dozens of international organizations were created to give structure and order to international relations, rapid urbanization and the rising influence of cities have raised new questions around their mandates and structu...

May 22, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz , Stepan Goncharov , Dina Smeltz , and Denis Volkov, Pavel Golovkin / AP, Download Report (PDF), Although Russian young adults primarily turn to social media for news, a majority do not trust information reported by most media outlets., ...

September 18, 2017, RESEARCH Report by Rob Paral, Allen McGregor, Download Report (PDF), Cities of the American Midwest were largely built by immigration, and immigrants were a key component of the population growth these cities experienced in the early decades of the last century., Introduction,...

August 21, 2023, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Ethan Kessler, AP Photos, US security assistance meant for counterterrorism efforts is also implicated in the government’s war against Anglophone separatists., Cameroon is a country of 29 million straddling West and Central Africa, rich in natural resou...

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...

April 12, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Emily Sullivan , Lily Wojtowicz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, Reuters, Download Report (PDF) Download Topline (PDF), A new Chicago Council-Levada poll reveals the Russian public appears to be buying Putin's explanation for "...