Hoda Muthana's and Shamima Begum's requests to return to their home countries after joining ISIS have put women’s roles in terrorism at the center of popular news and conversations about violent extremism.

The New York experience demonstrates how we can work together through city diplomacy to create meaningful impact.

July 7, 2018, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Ian Klaus , Hugo Decramer , Michele Acuto , Juliana Kerr , Sam Tabory , and Noah J. Toly, Download Report (PDF), Cities are now more connected than ever before on a global scale. Yet local governments are not just spectators of this networked age: they are a...

September 16, 2015, RESEARCH Report by Charles E. Hanrahan, Download Report (PDF), Investments in global food security alleviate poverty, spur economic growth, promote social stability, and enhance the resilience of communities in low-income regions of the world., Key Findings, Research suggests ...

October 28, 2014, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Scott Snyder, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), American public opinion shows steadily growing American support for the US-Korea (ROK) alliance., Introduction, The ratification of the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) in 2012 does not appe...

January 17, 2018, RESEARCH Report by Patricia Kim, Download Report (PDF), Securing Beijing’s cooperation on denuclearizing North Korea requires a clear understanding of Chinese strategic thinking on the Korean Peninsula., Key Findings, ​This paper will provide a brief overview of three critic...

April 24, 2019, RESEARCH Working Paper by Kristin Ljungkvist, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), For an extended historical period, nation-states have held nearly sole responsibility for providing security, and they certainly continue to have the greatest responsibility today., Key Findings, Cities ...

August 7, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Samuel Kling, Tinou Bao, Download Report (PDF), The new paradigm of "mobility as a service" promises to change how people move, with local and global ramifications., Introduction, The new paradigm of "mobility as a service" (MaaS)-offering myriad, integrat...

May 30, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Alaina Harkness, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This paper explores how city leaders can use economic power to narrow the gap in wealth and opportunity., Introduction, Research shows that intergenerational mobility—the “American dream” shared by most ...

Since the adoption of the SDGs, governments, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations have restructured their priorities and refined their policies, business models, and supply chains.