January 10, 2018, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Weston S. Konishi, CDC Global, Download Report (PDF), China's growth in naval power is proceeding at a remarkable rate and foreshadows a change in the regional maritime balance of power. The US will move from being the preeminent naval power in the regio...

February 17, 2021, RESEARCH Report, Download Report (PDF), Climate change is wreaking havoc on agriculture and food security both in the US and abroad. In collaboration with the Farm Journal Foundation, the Council provides recommendations that are targeted both domestically and internationally.,...

March 29, 2022, RESEARCH Working Paper by John Austin and Colleen Dougherty, Karen Green, Download Report (PDF), Local strategies can revive economies, nurture hope, and diminish the appeal of antidemocratic populism in struggling industrial regions., In both North America and Europe, historic in...

April 19, 2019, RESEARCH Working Paper by Orley C. Ashenfelter, Download Report (PDF), A paper from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that honors the work of Michael H. Moskow in the Global Economy., Introduction, Much of what I have tried to do in my own research in the last forty years is t...

February 14, 2018, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Emma Chanlett-Avery, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This brief analyzes the 2017 ASEAN summit where four of the region's major maritime democracies discussed the revival of quadrilateral cooperation for a free and open Indo-Pacific., At the Association...

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August 30, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Florita Gunasekara , Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata , and Chandni Singh, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Local leadership plays a critical role in responding to climate threats and addressing the challenges associated with migration, the report's authors find., Cli...

June 23, 2016, RESEARCH Working Paper by Kathryn Reilly, Jason Pofahl, Download Report (PDF), This paper calls for a reimagined global retirement account that's tailored to bolster retirement security for today's global workforce., Over the past 50 years, trends in employer-sponsored benefits, p...

September 29, 2015, RESEARCH Report by Saeid Golkar, Kamran Gholami, The Islamic Republic of Iran has promoted despondency and hopelessness to the extent that citizens become paralyzed and incapable of challenging the political status quo., Social riots, popular uprisings, and revolutions are amo...

January 31, 2020, RESEARCH Policy Brief by David Nielson, Download Report (PDF), This paper diagnoses the challenges faced by governments, international organizations, and research institutions in mitigating and reversing the decline of soil quality in Africa., Key Findings, In Sub-Saharan Africa...