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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. 

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post explains pandemic preparedness must include more than research, vaccine development, and stockpiling supplies.

Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.

Recommendations for how the Obama administration and Congress can restore America’s leadership in the fight against global hunger and poverty.

Economic sanctions: what they are, how the US has used them in foreign policy, and considerations for current policymakers.

Recent polling reveals both good and bad news for the future of US-Russian relations.

Despite the Trump administration’s approach to immigration, survey data reveals growing support for a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized workers.

Polling shows the Swedish public is keenly aware of the threat posed by Russia and favors a strong policy response to the invasion of Ukraine.

The Detroit Future City plan seeks to address the city's decades of decline and calls for returning portions of vacant land to natural and agricultural uses.

In this blog post from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, we dig deeper into how the pandemic has affected immigrants to the US.

The Feed the Future Food Safety Innovation Lab aims to support sustainable, high impact research that improves food safety in developing economies.

While Americans support federal spending on education, healthcare, and Social Security, there partisan divides on other key issues.

The Council’s Katelyn Jones examines women in science and the gender dimensions of agriculture.

Penny Abeywardena explains how the New York experience demonstrates city diplomacy’s impact.

COP15 set new targets for protecting ecosystems, but funding, implementation, and a lack of global attention to biodiversity give pause for Chris Morris.

How can the US confront human rights abuses in China, without robbing athletes of the opportunity to compete on the world stage?

This Earth Day, one plant breeder reflects on the food security promise of innovative biotechnology and how it has been misunderstood.

This paper offers actions businesses, governments, foundations, and community organizations can explore to ramp up ecosystems for future youth entrepreneurs.

The 2020 Chicago Council on Global Affairs-University of Texas at Austin survey explores to what extent Democratic, Republican, and Independent foreign policy professionals support Biden’s international agenda.

Around the world, cities continue to protect the basic human rights of vulnerable populations in the face of fierce opposition from national governments.