May 24, 2018, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Joshua Busby and Stephen Slick, REUTERS, Download Report (PDF), A University of Texas polling project from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found Americans consider the work of the intelligence community effective., Introduction, A polling proj...

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...

December 14, 2017, RESEARCH Working Paper by Karen Weigert, Nastya Dulhiier, Download Report (PDF), Karen Weigert shares four ways we can respond to future cyberattacks., In a new era of both warfare and terrorism, cyberattacks are a growing global weapon and their frequent target is energy. In t...

November 14, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lily Wojtowicz and Dina Hanania, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), The American public’s view of the benefits of foreign aid is complicated; Americans support aid programs but would like to cut aid spending and have mixed feelings about its imp...

October 18, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Sara McElmurry, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Despite the Trump administration’s approach to immigration, survey data reveals growing support for a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized workers., Views of Immigrants and Re...

March 30, 2017, RESEARCH Book by Roger Thurow, We revisit the families profiled in Council senior fellow Roger Thurow's book, The Last Hunger Season, six years later., Six years after its publication, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow returns to Western Kenya to revisit the farm families first p...

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,...

February 1, 2017, RESEARCH Report, Download Report (PDF), This joint report examines the public opinion of changes taking place in the Asia-Pacific, including mutual concerns and competing visions, in order to make better-informed policy decisions., Executive Summary, With rapidly evolving develo...

March 13, 2017, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Andrea Durkin, Download Report (PDF), Andrea Durkin outlines recommended actions related to a Council report calling for a new US program to promote trade facilitation in food., Executive Summary, Investment in trade capacity and facilitation can be a key ...

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...