As the coronavirus pandemic begins to quickly spread across the globe, Council experts assess public opinion around about the virus and its impact.

August 4, 2023 Check out our roundup of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

Failure to treat water as a strategic, valuable, and limited resource is a direct threat to the global economy; the health of our planet; and the well-being of both current and future generations of humanity.

This week’s incidents speak to a growing, and concerning, trust deficit between the United States and its closest European ally.   

September 4, 2004, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Marshall M. Bouton , Catherine Hug , Steven Kull , Benjamin I. Page , Robert Y. Shapiro , Jennie Taylor , and Christopher B. Whitney, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), The 2004 Chicago Council Survey explores public opinion on core con...

With the death toll rising in Iran amid a crackdown on protests, US President Donald Trump is weighing a strike against the nation. Iran’s capacity to respond to such an action is far more limited than its leaders suggest.

Senior Fellow Roger Thurow details the true costs of malnutrition today and tomorrow.

USAID announces sweeping changes toward localization addressing questions about the efficacy of development programming modalities.

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

Xuefei Ren argues that cities in China and India are more aptly compared in territorial vs. associational governance than by regime type.