Cities have been called bastions of democracy, but authoritarian leaders across the globe are articulating their own visions for the future of urban spaces.

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Miguel Ángel Sanz, By investing in infrastructure, the United States can prepare communities to participate in a changing economy, increase access to opportunity, and address challenges highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic., Updating the country’s infrastructure is a powerful way to tackle som...

March 29, 2022, RESEARCH Working Paper by John Austin and Colleen Dougherty, Karen Green, Download Report (PDF), Local strategies can revive economies, nurture hope, and diminish the appeal of antidemocratic populism in struggling industrial regions., In both North America and Europe, historic in...

This blog post from our "Field Notes" series explains that although Nigeria is a major global economic hub, many obstacles—like food insecurity, overfishing, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality—stand in its way of success.

Harvard University's Stephen M. Walt joins Deep Dish to explain America's foreign policy failures since the end of the Cold War.

A new experiment by researchers from the University of Illinois at Springfield, the University of Chicago, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs finds that policy experts care about formal alliances. But even alliance relationships have limits.

Issues around object provenance have hit the museum industry hard. Here’s a list of Illinois institutions that have dealt with controversies in this arena.

Cohort, 2015, Industry, Education, Sector, Academia, Sarah Elizabeth Ippel is the founder and executive director of the Academy for Global Citizenship, a Chicago Public Elementary School on a global mission that serves 96% minority children and families. AGC is developing the next generation of c...