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Global Public Opinion Response as COVID-19 Halts Reopening | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The Chicago Council's polling team examines public opinion on COVID-19 from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, France, the UK, Italy, and Israel.
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REUTERS
Democracy Around the World Had a Rough Year. But Don't Give Up.
"The year we’re leaving behind was a bad one for democracy — a reminder that progress is fragile and not inevitable, and that history doesn’t always take a linear path," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.
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Industrial Heartland Transformation and Democracy: Insights and Implications from ...
Industrial Heartland Transformation and Democracy: Insights and Implications from a Transatlantic Learning Exchange. ... regions, seize green economy leadership, and strengthen democracies at home and alliances abroad. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/Research/FInalStudyTourReport5-2-23.pdf -
Reuters
Tweaking the Inflation Reduction Act Can Strengthen Democracies' Hand
“Made in Democracy” is a better label than “Made in America” if the goal is to strengthen our collective Western economies as well as our political alliances.
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Reuters
Trump Indictment Viewed Abroad as Test of US Democracy
What impact does Trump’s indictment have on the credibility of the US political system? Cecile Shea weighs in on VOA with Cindy Saine.
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Reuters
If Invaded, Will the Taiwan Public Fight? Don't Look to Polls for an Answer | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Public surveys about Taiwan's willingness to fight an invasion by China don't reveal as much as one might think.
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SIPA USA
How Israeli-Palestinian Peace Continues to Elude Us 75 Years Later | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Public opinion signals the conflict is in dire need of stronger leadership and more practical policies.
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Global Politics
William Ruto Declared Winner in Kenya Presidential Election
Elizabeth Shackleford looks at William Ruto's win in Kenya's presidential election and why it's a good sign for Kenyan democracy.
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AP Photos
From Ukraine to Gaza to Iraq, Chicago's city council has been voting more often on foreign affairs | Chicago City Hall is voting more often on Foreign Affairs
The Chicago City Council has tripled its legislation on foreign policy in the last four years.
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Freddie Everett
Ally-shore to Restore US Economic Leadership, Protect Democracy
“By centering our economic and trade relations with our friends, we can drive a more powerful collective recovery,” writes John Austin in Our Towns.
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Global Politics
What Ukraine's Election Reveals, Five Years After Crimea | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Steven Pifer, former US ambassador to Ukraine, joins Deep Dish to discuss the latest developments in Russia and Ukraine’s relationship, and what to expect next.
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Reuters
Converging Flu Season and Pandemic Concerns Northern Publics | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Public opinion polls in North America, Europe, and Asia find publics continue to worry about contracting the virus.
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REUTERS
Cooperating, Competing, Confronting: US-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation as China Rises | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
A report from the Task Force on Trilateral Cooperation Amid China’s Rise recommends a new policy mix that leverages each country’s individual strengths and advantages.
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REUTERS
Public Opinion as COVID-19 Cases Slow in Some Countries, Increase in Others | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The Chicago Council’s polling team examines public opinion on COVID-19 from the United States, France, the UK, Italy, and Canada.
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REUTERS
Profiles of Power: Biden, Xi Discuss "Competition Without Conflict," Climate | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
While Biden and Xi met in Bali, the UN's COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh is being re-energized by the discussion between the world leaders.
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Public Opinion
Do Non-Trump Republicans Diverge with Trump Republicans on Foreign Policy? | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
While Republicans share a similar political worldview overall, Trump and Non-Trump Republicans disagree on key policies for immigration, climate change, and nuclear programs.
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AP Photos
Can a State Dinner End South Korea and Japan's Fight Over History? | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
On Deep Dish, we discuss if the ROK and Japan can finally resolve their fight over history and cooperate on Asia security.
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US Foreign Policy
How America and Democracies Around the World Can Defeat Illiberalism
America should view its many threats as a collective advance of illiberalism acting against the post-World War II democratically led, rules-based world order.
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Mika Baumeister
Global Public Opinion Shows Support for COVID-19 Prevention Policies | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The Chicago Council Survey team provides an update on global public opinion on the COVID-19 pandemic includes polling results from around the world.
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Reuters
Biden Says Trump Is Threat to American Democracy
"I think that President Biden, in a way, is mirroring what he senses is a changing attitude in a part of our society," said Cécile Shea.
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US Foreign Policy
The US Role In Assisting Other Democracies
How does the United States use its influence in the global fight for democracy? Elizabeth Shackelford talks US foreign policy, coups, and more on C-SPAN.
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Reuters
Africa Will Test Biden's Democracy Approach
In Africa, “supplying and supporting abusive security forces often directly undermines democracy,” writes Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune.
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Reuters
Coups Are Happening Where Democracy Is Failing
“Those who want democracy to succeed must help make the case,” argues Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune. Case in point: the US impact on coups.
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Reuters
Ahead of Biden-Moon Summit, South Koreans and Americans Align on China and North Korea | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Chicago Council survey data find majorities in South Korea view China as more of a security threat than a security partner and as more of an economic threat than an economic partner.
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With democracy came a challenge to the ROC system established by the KMT-Mainlander class: most of Taiwan does not want to be incorporated into China. ... that the PRC is implacably aggressive and that Taipei must strengthen its military and ties with https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/Taiwan%27s%20Security%20Future.pdf -
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Alex Zarubi
Guiding Principles for a Sustainable US Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
A joint task force outlines some key principles and judgments in managing the United States' relationships with Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.
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Memo on an ‘Economic Article 5’to counter authoritarian coercion ...
How would such an economic mechanism work? One solution: an international grouping, or “alliance of democracies,” could come together and agree on such a framework, possibly through the Summit for Democracy ... Our overarching purpose is to https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/CCGA%20Economic%20Article%205%20Brief_vF_0.pdf -
11/11 Summary Report
of the root cases of polarizing politics undermining Western democracies and transatlantic relationships. ... Before contributing tothe Transforming Industrial Heartlands Initiative, he interned with the German Marshall Fund,focusing on their Cities https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/Research/Engaging-Heartland-Residents_dec2022_web.pdf -
Reuters
Industrial Transition and Democracy
John Austin joined the European Committee of the Regions to discuss the link between populism and place, and how populism grows in deindustrialized regions.
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Reuters
Will the World Still Look to America as a Champion of Democracy?
Council President Ivo Daalder, former US ambassador to NATO, examines how the events at the US Capitol influence US standing abroad.
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1 Paths to New Prosperity and a Better Politics ...
salient industrial heartlands of our democracies. And in particular what we recently learned in the study tour bringing UK and European regional. ... democracies’ capacity to counter the rising threat from authoritarian powers like China and. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/Research/AustinOECDRegionalEcDevCommiteeTalk_TIH-Post-510.pdf -
AP Photos
2024 Will Be a Year of Elections That Could Reshape Global Politics
"The elections of 2024 could mark an inflection point for democracy globally and, by consequence, international relations," Paul Poast writes.
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2022 CHICAGO COUNCIL SURVEY THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL ...
Promoting human rights and democracy around the world. Overall Republican Democrat Independent. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/China%20Human%20Rights%202022%20Topline.pdf -
Global Health
United States Splits from Global Trend on Abortion Rights
Banning abortion “doesn't look like a particularly democratic move for a country that purports to be a beacon of democracy,” says Elizabeth Shackelford on WGN-9.
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The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations 2 0 0 ...
In February 2004 seventeen members traveled to India, accompanied by Council president Marshall Bouton, for an intimate view of the world’s largest democracy and the second largest Muslim country. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/annual_report_2002-05.pdf -
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Despite the efforts of the Bush administratnumber of democracies will have wide-rangin Americans have doubts about whether democracy makes the world safer. ... PIPA/KN/CCFR 9/2005. Effect of More Democracy on World. 26%. 68%. When there are more https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/2005-Democratization%20Report%20Sept%202005.pdf -
Russians and Americans Sense a New Cold War Dina ...
orbit. At the same time, US President Joe Biden has pitted the NATO struggle with Russia as well as the US competition with China as contests between democracies and autocracies. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/Final%20New%20Cold%20War%20Brief.pdf -
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November 1, 2005 Democracy as a Tool of U.S. Foreign Policy Dr. ... McFaul, director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2006-07_annual_report_final.pdf -
US Foreign Policy
America shrugs while democracy around the world retreats
For the 13th year in a row, freedom declined around the world — with more countries falling down freedom’s ranks than moving up.
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Muslim world (70%, up 4 percentage points from. 2006) and will not lead to the spread of democracy. ... The threat of terrorism has been reduced by the war. The war will lead to the spread of democracy in the Middle East. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/2012_CCS_Report.pdf -
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332 South Michigan AvenueSuite 1100 Chicago, Illinois 60604thechicagocouncil.org. The Emerging Power of Big Data: The Chicago Experience June 2014. EMERGING LEADERS PERSPECTIVESGlobal Era • Different Challenges • New Priorities. The Emerging Pow. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-01/ELBigDataCities.pdf -
Pivot to Europe: US Public Opinion in a Time ...
This aligns with broader current American views on policy toward Russia and China, which support pushing back against these countries—particularly when they threaten democracies in their neighborhoods— but not in ... Promoting human rights and https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/2022%20Chicago%20Council%20Survey%20Report%20PDF_0.pdf -
IntroductionThe Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) outlined by the United ...
Educating girls tends to promote support for democracy.23. Educated women are more likely to participate in pol-itics and make concrete changes in the community than uneducated girls. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/womengirlschangeagents_report.pdf -
1 Regional Structural Policy in Pittsburgh and the Ruhr ...
The United States is not alone in this regard – most Western democracies contain. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Ruhr-Pitt-Regional-Policy-ShortReport.pdf -
Western Pennsylvania, USA and Germany’s Ruhr A Transatlantic Dialogue ...
Western Pennsylvania, USA and Germany’s Ruhr. A Transatlantic Dialogue on Making and Managing Economic Transition. The Transforming Industrial Heartlands Initiative, founded in 2019, uses economic development. to protect democratic institutions https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/Ruhr-WPA-TransatlanticDialoguereport7-5_TIR.pdf -
Constrained Internationalism: Adapting to New Realities Results of a ...
Constrained Internationalism: Adapting to New Realities. Results of a 2010 National Survey of American Public Opinion. Global Vi ews 2010. Global Views 2010 Team Marshall M. Bouton, Study chairRachel Bronson, Team memberGregory Holyk, Team https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Global%20Views%202010.pdf -
Support for combating global hunger is on the rise ...
Pending legislation can help address global hungerIn a representative democracy like the United States, the government is charged with enacting the will of the people. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/CCGA_2022_Hunger_Survey_brief_final_0.pdf -
LESTER CROWN CENTER ON US FOREIGN POLICY Divided We ...
LESTER. CROWN CENTER ON US FOREIGN POLICY. Divided We StandDemocrats and Republicans Diverge on US Foreign Policy. By Dina Smeltz, Ivo Daalder, Karl Friedhoff, Craig Kafura, and Brendan Helm. R E S U L T S O F T H E 2 0 2 0 C H I C A G O C O U N C I https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/report_2020ccs_americadivided_0.pdf