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Using Chicago as a model, this report outlines big data strategies for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of cities around the world.

The recent terrorist attack in Brussels is prompting serious and important thinking about the security of global cities. 

In order for global cities to be able to grow—despite their home countries' economic challenges—they must focus on developing and attracting global talent.

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

In an article published in the journal Globalizations, senior fellow Noah Toly explores the relationship between London and the UK's decision to leave the EU.

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

As the country splinters along geographic and ideological lines, post-election divisions could portend the rise of a new American city-state movement.

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

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs report highlights the fact that America’s commitment to global food security is more important than ever.

Cities must step up when nation-states ignore the devastating impacts and economic costs of climate change, sea level rise, and environmental degradation.

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 actively forging links across borders, taking part in setting the international agenda, and shifting the

Experts Steven Cook and Henri Barkey and economist Phil Levy share their views on the global ramifications of Turkey's economic crisis.

In 2018, the Council captured public and opinion leader attitudes on some of the most pressing foreign policy issues.