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Global Health
On COVID-19, Foreign Policy Elites are Just as Polarized as the Public
New survey results suggest that President-elect Biden will have to work hard to cultivate bipartisan buy-in for efforts to rein in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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REUTERS
India's COVID-19 Crisis Pushes the US to Get Vaccine Diplomacy Right
“Viruses don't respect borders and neither do their knock-on effects,” Elizabeth Shackelford writes in the Chicago Tribune. “An uncontrolled outbreak in a country of 1.4 billion people is a crisis for all.”
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Pivot to Europe: US Public Opinion in a Time ...
5659. 6150. 4819. 7347. 4531. 6140. 3621. 5034. 3542. 3332. Sending COVID-19 vaccines to other countries in need. ... world (61%), and a range of humanitarian initiatives such as combating world hunger (50%) and sending COVID-19 vaccines to other https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/2022%20Chicago%20Council%20Survey%20Report%20PDF_0.pdf -
1 MARCH 2022 US-RUSSIA OMNIBUS THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON ...
Q5/43. The COVID-19 pandemic (% critical threat). Overall Republican Democrat Independent R-D Gap 2020 67 48 87 60 -39 August 2021 65 47 81 63 -34 March 2022 35 ... The COVID-19 pandemic 35 18 52 34 -34 5/NEW/6a. Large numbers of immigrants and refugees https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/March%202022%20Partial%20US%20Topline.pdf -
Executive Summary The impact of global challenges such as ...
Executive Summary. The impact of global challenges such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic manifests most acutely in urban settings, rendering cities essential players on the global stage. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/ccga_citydiplomacy_2020_0.pdf -
Western Pennsylvania, USA and Germany’s Ruhr A Transatlantic Dialogue ...
The. COVID-19 pandemic dented the growth of Pittsburgh’s burgeoning technology sector. ... wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and the United States. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/Ruhr-WPA-TransatlanticDialoguereport7-5_TIR.pdf -
Introduction Ending Hunger and Advancing Nutrition: Lived Experience PerspectivesRecommendations ...
exclusion from SNAP of individuals with drug convictions and other felonies; maintaining options for remote interviews and dig-ital signatures even after the COVID-19 pandemic; and eliminating asset limits for ... insecure.9 Food supply chain disruptions https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/WHC%20CGFA%20Policy%20Brief%20FINAL%20DRAFT_1.pdf -
Global Health
Urban Governance: Cities in a Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the quality of governance and competence of the world’s leaders. When politicians and civil servants fail to deliver, they quickly lose credibility and legitimacy.
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declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, invoking powers under the Stafford Act, the legislation that directs federal emergency disaster. ... See discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic in Note 17. The pandemic is ongoing and future impact on the https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/Support/Council-FY20-Audited-Financial-Statement.pdf -
REUTERS
Parklets, Traffic-Free Zones and Outdoor Eating: How COVID Is Transforming Our Cities
"Both cities and citizens have often shown that they can adapt rapidly under crisis conditions," the Council's Non-resident Senior Fellow Michele Acuto writes with Dan Hill in the Conversation.
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Serving the Citizens—Not the BureaucracyA Strategic Vision for City ...
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the extent to which public procurement everywhere is vulnerable to corruption, especially when rushed into crisis mode. ... Radically improved user experience. Better-quality postal and retail services. Underpinned reform https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/CCGA-City%20procurement_vFb%5B94%5D.pdf -
Global Economy
The Best Medicine for a COVID-19 Economy? More Education and Training
In many of the new and growing jobs, higher skill requirements can best be met by providing workers with more extensive and affordable post-secondary education opportunities.
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A global welcome: Metro Chicago’s approach to immigrant inclusion ...
Of course, the challenges facing immigrants have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/a_global_welcome_immigration-report_0.pdf -
Participatory Governance in Local Care ProgramsLessons from Bogotá and ...
IntroductionAmong the many urban crises precipitated by COVID-19, the pandemic was foremost a crisis of care. ... This figure accounts for an increase of nearly 500,000 caregivers since the pre-COVID era. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/Participatory-Governance-in-Local-Care-Programs.pdf -
Global Health
We're Unprepared to Handle a Congressional COVID Crisis
While the 25th Amendment to the Constitution deals with the transfer of power in the event of the president’s incapacitation, no such mechanism exists for members of Congress.
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Support for combating global hunger is on the rise ...
Progress has been made in decreasing hunger over the last decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic and its ripple economic effects—as well as the climate crisis—have demonstrated that such https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/CCGA_2022_Hunger_Survey_brief_final_0.pdf -
FINAL - Expert Survey Declining Russia
Now there are the lingering economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to add to this list. ... See the Appendix Figure A for full data.) It is important to note that the survey was fielded before the COVID-19 outbreak escalated to a global crisis. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/final_-_expert_survey_declining_russia.pdf -
Ahead of Biden-Moon Summit, South Koreans and Americans Align ...
8. 6. Low birth rates. Climate change. North Korea'snuclear. program. The COVID-19pandemic. ... Iran's nuclearprogram. The COVID-19pandemic. Climate change. China's militarypower. China'seconomic. power. Critical threat. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/Final%20-%20Biden-Moon%20Summit%20Brief_0.pdf -
US global food security efforts must be strengthenedThe Global ...
The GFSA must recognize how the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change wreak havoc on global food security efforts. ... COVID-19 has devastated countries globally by destabi-lizing governments, overwhelming health systems, and dismantling progress made on https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/GFSA-Reauthorization_brief_final_230328.pdf-combined.pdf -
Memo on an ‘Economic Article 5’to counter authoritarian coercion ...
Then, in April 2020, Australia called for an inquiry to determine the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/CCGA%20Economic%20Article%205%20Brief_vF_0.pdf -
Executive summary ■ US public investment in agricultural research ...
The COVID-19 pandemic could add up to 132 million more hungry people in the world. ... healthcare puts rural women and Black Americans at higher risk for chronic disease and COVID-19.35. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/report_new-solutions-for-changing-climate_0.pdf -
Mufid Majnun
No, We're Not at 'War.' the Dangers of How We Talk About the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The language of war can be used to bring a nation together in common cause—but when it comes to dealing with a pandemic, all these efforts are necessary.
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Executive summary ● The new Biden administration will face ...
org. CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS - 3. arising from climate change and COVID-19. ... The predicted long-term conse-quences of COVID-19 have yet to be seen. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/report_centering-global-food-security-global-prosperity.pdf -
FARMERS ON THE FRONT LINES: AGRICULTURE’S ROLE IN FIGHTING ...
COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic the U.S. faces, and we will continue to feel the consequences of increasing natural disasters as the climate changes. ... The emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is already exposing the https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/report_agricultures-role-in-fighting-climate-change.pdf -
Paths to New Prosperity Paper_Chicago Council Final Final Draft-2
Medical products present a growth opportunity, as well. In the United Kingdom (UK), for example, the mass purchasing of vaccines and the reshoring of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the ... The COVID-19 crisis and the path to full recovery https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/Paths%20to%20New%20Prosperity%20Paper%20FINAL%203.22.22.pdf -
The world is facing immense barriers to achieving the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic, now in its third year, has exposed the fragility of a deeply globalized food system. ... Mind the gap: Gender, governance, and local food systems. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us the importance of local food systems. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/IncDevRep%20FINAL%20DRAFT%20-%20UPDATED%20ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.pdf -
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Green COVID-19 Recovery and Transatlantic Leadership: What Are the Prospects? Paul Hofhuis, Senior Research Associate, Clingendael Institute October 2020 As the US presidential election rapidly approaches, an important question is ... As a result, we https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/report_green-covid-19-recovery-and-transatlantic-leadership_20201020.pdf -
August 2023 By Kris HartleyNonresident Fellow Global Cities, Chicago ...
Partnership for Healthy Cities’ COVID-19 Response. ... Habitat for Humanity, contributions to disaster relief, support for victims of the war in Ukraine, and continued efforts to aid COVID-19 pandemic recovery. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/CCG235100%20Connecting%20ESG%20and%20UN%20SDGs-Full%20Issue_vF.pdf -
Defining the Path to Zero Hunger in an Equitable ...
March 2023. The bold vision for a 21st Century of zero hunger in a healthier and more equitable world has been severely clouded by the gloomy vistas of conflict, COVID, and ... No borders could contain COVID-19. Similarly, the cumulative global toll of a https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/Defining%20the%20Path%20to%20Zero%20Hunger%20in%20an%20Equitable%20World.pdf -
Global Health
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Reuters
Viral Inequality
Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a range of toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief.
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Reuters
A New Shared Mobility for Changing City Needs
Samuel Kling analyzes the new challenges shared mobility (such as app-based ride-hailing and e-bikes) has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This year, with many Americans focused first and foremost on problems at home—primarily, the COVID-19 pandemic—defense spending attitudes have returned to the post-2002 norm. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/report_republicans-democrats-split-on-increasing-defense-budget_.pdf -
Final - Trilateral Cooperation Taskforce Report
Positive views of China have collapsed around the world following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/Final%20-%20Trilateral%20Cooperation%20Taskforce%20Report%202021-07-06.pdf -
Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Reassuring America’s Allies 21-02-08
The 2020 Defence Strategic Update, released in July 2020, paints a dire picture of the post-COVID-19 world, in which the Indo-Pacific is at the center of global strategic https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/report_preventing-nuclear-proliferation-reassuring-americas-allies_0.pdf -
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https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/publication/lcc/rejecting-retreat. 6. Finally, it is important to recognize that the data analyzed in this report were collected before the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide ... Moreover, the changed political atmosphere https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/report_from-urban-suburban-rural-divide-to-convergence_2020-08-13.pdf -
Global Health
South Korea's Success in Containing the Coronavirus Highlights Importance of Digital Resilience
One of the emerging lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that countries and companies that digitised early are more likely to recover faster than those that did not
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Food and Agriculture
Global Food Prices Stay Near Record
Ertharin Cousin joins Kriti Gupta on Bloomberg Markets to discuss global food inflation and Covid resilience.
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Reuters
Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
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Public Opinion
Most Americans want more global engagement
Rather than moving to cut ties with the rest of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, majorities of Americans continue to prefer active U.S. engagement and shared leadership in world affairs.
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Global Politics
How Joe Biden Can Restore America’s Standing Abroad
Before the United States can reliably rebuild its international power and influence, it must heal itself by getting COVID under control, reviving economic prosperity, and moving beyond the bitterly divided politics of the Trump presidency.
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Global Cities
Imperiled Higher Education Institutions Key to State's Future
The Midwest's colleges and universities are central to community economic renewal and COVID-19 recovery, a revival put at risk by recent fiscal, demographic and short-sighted public policy headwinds.
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Defense and Security
The Pandemic Has Triggered Dramatic Shifts in the Global Criminal Underworld
Drug cartels are facing broken supply chains, shrinking revenues, and shifting markets. Rising violence is just one effect.
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Scott Winterroth
How Chicago Can Avoid the Looming Global Traffic Crisis
As city leaders move beyond coping with the COVID-19 crisis to imagining the future, how to move—literally—poses a challenge.
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FDR Presidential Library & Museum
'Wartime' Leadership? Donald Trump Is No FDR
Among the most preposterous of delusions from our delusional president is that he is qualified to lead the country in the "war" against COVID-19. Could we imagine a contrast more ludicrous than that between the recycled reality-TV host and Frankl
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Diplomatic Security Service
Biden Says America Is Back at the Table. Is It?
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains how it will take more than mere words to create the multilateral responses the world needs to climate change, COVID-19, and the global crises yet to come.
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Global Health
The COVID Wake-Up Call
If the international community does not respond to the coronavirus pandemic by creating new global structures to deal with such outbreaks in the future, it will be guilty of criminal neglect.
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Global Cities
The Post-Pandemic Urban Future Is Already Here
The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.
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Carlos Fyfe
Biden Must Remove Barriers to Engagement with North Korea
"To change the trajectory of the relationship between North Korea and the US, it is critical that Americans pursue principled engagement," writes Matt Abbott in NK News.
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KOBU Agency
While US Plays Blame Game in Coronavirus Crisis, China Shows Leadership
Ignoring its responsibility for starting the pandemic, Beijing has trumpeted its response as a model for others to follow.