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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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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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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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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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America’s Foreign Policy FuturePublic Opinion and the 2024 Election ...
America’s Foreign Policy FuturePublic Opinion and the 2024 Election. Results of the 2024 ChicagoCouncil Survey of American PublicOpinion and US Foreign Policy. By Dina Smeltz, Karl Friedhoff, Craig Kafura,Lama El Baz, and Libby Berry. Devanshi https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2024-12/2024%20CCS%20Overall%20Report_v2.pdf -
Emerging Leaders Class of 2011 | Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The Emerging Leaders Class of 2011 spent two years examining key issues that affect the world and impact the global city of Chicago. https://globalaffairs.org/get-involved/emerging-leaders-program/el-community/emerging-leaders-class-2011 -
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Reuters
Domestic Investments Can Aid All Democracies
Nonresident Fellow John Austin and Elaine Dezenski unpack how domestic investments can be creative tools to strengthen democracy.
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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 -
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
A Democracy Summit Is Not What the Doctor Ordered
A new administration may find that the summit overloads its circuits at a demanding time.
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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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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 -
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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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 -
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 -
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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 -
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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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 -
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 -
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 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 -
Julien de Rosa / AP
Biden Will Deliver a Defense of Democracy To Mark D-Day
The speech comes as isolationist views are growing, Ivo Daalder tells NPR. "NATO is becoming politicized in a way it never was until this point."
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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 -
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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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 -
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 -
Elizabeth Sokolich with AP photos
Why is the U.S. arming Taiwan?
The U.S. has maintained a delicate balance between not officially recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign nation and arming the island to fend off any Chinese aggression.
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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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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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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 -
CCGA Public Opinion 2012.indd
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 -
Serving the Citizens—Not the BureaucracyA Strategic Vision for City ...
Serving the Citizens—Not the BureaucracyA Strategic Vision for City Procurement. Sascha HaselmayerJUNE 2021. THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS IS AN INDEPENDENT, NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATION. ALL STATEMENTS OF FACT AND EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/CCGA-City%20procurement_vFb%5B94%5D.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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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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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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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 -
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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Public Attitudes on US Intelligence 2020 Final Trump-Era Survey ...
inform scholarly and general debate over the proper role of secret intelligence in our open democracy. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/Public%20Attitudes%20on%20US%20Intelligence%20Brief.pdf -
Paths to New Prosperity Paper_Chicago Council Final Final Draft-2
Sharing these stories more purposefully and seeing them inspire similar action will enhance the economic and political health of our democracies. ... 14. citizens will continue to drive a polarizing populist politics that is undermining our democracies https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/Paths%20to%20New%20Prosperity%20Paper%20FINAL%203.22.22.pdf -
THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS - 1 SummaryAs ...
opportunities for immigrants and their fam-ilies to become full participants in democracy.” The website includes information aimed at individuals seeking accurate infor-mation and updates about DACA and DAPA, provides https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/Immigration%20Paper_v4-final.pdf -
Executive summary Cities are now more connected than ever ...
When asked about the primary focus areas of the networks in which they participate, four—governance and democracy; climate change; the environment; and urban planning, land management, and sustainability—surfaced as https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-05/toward_city_diplomacy_report_180207.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 -
A special issue looking back at 2008 and 2009. ...
Scholl Foundation Lecture on U.S.-China Relations in June 2009. Corporate Programs on India provided the latest thinking on the world’s most populous market democracy. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/communique_08-09_annual_report.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 -
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Surprisingly, only 51 percent of respondents think of South Korea as a democracy (with 40% thinking it is not a democracy), despite the country’s status as one of the most ... democracy? Or how can policymakers feel comfortable pushing for passage of https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/US%20Attitudes%20toward%20the%20Republic%20of%20Korea.pdf -
Ahead of Biden-Moon Summit, South Koreans and Americans Align ...
A majority (54%) think that the alliance is based on the security interests of both countries as well as shared values such as democracy and human rights. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/Final%20-%20Biden-Moon%20Summit%20Brief_0.pdf -
Working Paper: How Economic Sanctions are Used in U.S. ...
Working Paper: How Economic Sanctions are Used in U.S. Foreign Policy. Ethan Kessler, Research Associate. March 2022. Introduction Economic sanctions are commonly used tools of U.S. foreign policy whose history, legal mechanisms, costs, and effects https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/Sanctions%20Working%20Paper%20-%20CCGA%20Template.pdf