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Washington and Beijing see themselves locked in a zero-sum competition doubling as an existential ideological struggle, Paul Heer writes.

Existential threats like hunger and malnutrition, natural disasters, and agricultural pests impact international trade and economics, geopolitics, labor, and even migration across borders.

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

In a shift from just a month ago, the Japanese public favors tough sanctions on Russia in concert with the US and Europe. 

With investment from governments, philanthropists, and the private sector, the world can halt the spread of pandemic-induced food insecurity.

The building of an election fraud narrative in South Korea's presidential election is already underway.

Survey data shows Sanders supporters are concerned about global overreach and that it comes at the expense of the economy and general quality of life.

Citizens and policymakers alike embrace industrial policy as great power competition intensifies.

The trade war between China and the United States that began last year has already caused problems for Illinois farmers, spirits distillers and businesses in other industries.

Our weekly roundup of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

Republicans with a very favorable view of the former president seem to prefer a US role that is more independent and less cooperative.

Many of the challenges the world faced in 2020 will continue to shape our world next year.

Despite public divisions over US aid to Ukraine, support for taking in those fleeing the Russian invasion remains unchanged since March.

Our weekly roundup of the top news in food, agriculture, and global development.

Amid growing anxiety among experts and health officials, how do publics in countries around the world perceive the threat of the coronavirus?

Given the rising global threats, turning inward is a politically expedient platform. But overcoming global challenges requires trust and cooperation.

President Biden declared that "the pandemic is over." Council polling shows that when it comes to security and foreign policy, most Americans agree.

Deep Dish host Brian Hanson shares five recent episodes that help explain what’s happening in our world today and why these issues are so important.

The South Korean public is split on a second THAAD battery, but the question wording left a lot to be desired.

The 2020 Chicago Council Survey illuminates how self-described Democrats and Republicans feel about key presidential debate issues.

"Chinese satellites fly over the United States every day," Nonresident Senior Fellow Bruce Jentleson tells Steve Scully. "That doesn't make a headline the way a balloon does."

There was no way for Blinken’s Beijing trip to go on as planned and not focus inordinately on the balloon incident, argues Paul Heer.

The authors of this book address multiple questions involving the nature of youth protest in the twenty-first century.

The WHO has officially declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic. How is the public reacting around the world?

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford remarks on the foreign policy details of President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address.

This report says that Americans remain supportive of the US military presence in Japan.

The 2018 Chicago Council on Global Affairs Survey finds the largest majorities of Americans yet say that trade is good for the US economy and consumers.

Inevitably, the COVID-19 pandemic will change how people across the world think about foreign relations. Craig Kafura looks at Australia as a case study for how these changes affect public opinion.

But a majority oppose sending US troops if China were to invade the island.

Analysis from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs of the world’s largest economic entities reveals the economic influence of cities.

In picking fronts that offer the paths of least resistance, trilateral cooperation will maximize the presence of all three countries in ASEAN, maintaining balance in the region and making collective progress toward economic and development goals.

New data from the Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Council offer insights on how publics in the United States and Japan view the relationship between their countries.

NPR's Sarah McCammon and Ivo Daalder discuss the 2021 NATO summit and what it means for the future of the alliance.

Dina Smeltz and Brendan Helm analyze new public opinion data showing there is partisan agreement on how best to respond to the recent Russian hack.

Leaders from the US and Europe have much to learn from one another in building strategies to foster economic renewal in formerly industrial regions.

Global cities are products of a liberal world order that is under threat from the rise of populist nationalism, protectionism, and growing authoritarianism.

As competition between the United States and China intensifies, more Americans now say the Asian country is more powerful economically, a reversal from two years ago when a plurality said the United States had an economic advantage, according to a

With an extension on Brexit in place, we revisit the prospects of a future trade agreement between the UK and the US.  

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

Weekly analysis of public opinion as governments around the world impose increasing restrictions and the number of active cases surges.

The 54-percentage-point gap between Democrat and Republican views on climate change is the largest in the 2020 Chicago Council Survey.

Recent survey findings show that policies focused on furthering US energy independence are most likely to gain bipartisan support.

This report examines implications of increasingly influential roles of global business, agricultural research, and the limited national research capacity of developing countries.

The industrial heartlands of the U.S. and its European allies have become crucibles for the polarizing politics of neo-populism for a population left behind in the information age.

Globalization cannot be stopped, yet we can do a much better job dealing with its consequences by addressing the needs of those most adversely affected.

In 2002, nine in 10 Americans saw international terrorism as a critical threat. About six in 10 do today, Council polling shows.

Americans overall want to maintain defense spending. But Democrats, younger people, and those with a college education prefer cuts, while Republicans prefer expansion.

"It will take years of continued improvements to rebuild American confidence and trust in China," Craig Kafura says.

A survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs highlighting key foreign policy topics that will be covered in the final 2012 Presidential debate.

Council surveys find an American public split on the threat of climate change but open to cooperative efforts to limit its effects.