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...

August 21, 2023, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Emma Sanderson, AP Photos, America’s unconditional security sector assistance has helped facilitate Ethiopia’s violent responses to opposition., Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country and the oldest independent nation on the continent. Fr...

March 22, 2018, RESEARCH Report by Felix Kwame Yeboah, Hadynyah, Download Report (PDF), The US and global community must promote youth-inclusive agricultural transformation, or they risk seeing strategic partners weakened by rapid population growth and threatened by the instability this generates...

February 25, 2009, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini , Dan Glickman , and Robert Paarlberg, Download Report (PDF), Recommendations for how the Obama administration and Congress can restore America’s leadership in the fight against global hunger and poverty., Executive Summary, The Chicago In...

February 28, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Gloria Dabek , Catherine Bertini , Dan Glickman , and Samanta Dunford, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), The United States has made big pledges for global nutrition. Our white paper offers recommendations to turn commitments into action., Approximately 768 mill...

December 9, 2014, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Stephanie Mercier, Timothy Eberly, Download Report (PDF), Foreign-born workers are on the land, in laboratories, and everywhere in between. Immigration reform will strengthen Midwest agriculture., Agriculture is an important part of the Midwestern econo...

June 30, 2022, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Ethan Kessler, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), US aid would not have been nearly as effective without Ukraine’s efforts to improve its military prior to the 2022 Russian invasion., US security assistance to Ukraine since Russia’s all-out invasion in Feb...

October 16, 2018, RESEARCH Book by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, Diego Cambiaso, American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous., Key Findings , American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is...

November 7, 2018, RESEARCH Working Paper by Samuel Kling, Carl Campbell, Download Report (PDF), The implementation of automated vehicles (AVs) will reshape our cities in ways large and small, but much is unknown to make reliable predictions about AVs’ specific effects on cities., Key Findings ...

September 15, 2022, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Gloria Dabek , Samanta Dunford , Priya Fielding-Singh , and Peggy Tsai Yih, Download Report (PDF), Accessing and affording healthy food is a challenge for many Americans. In collaboration with World Central Kitchen, the Council provides domestic policy...