Evan Fazio's blog In 2009, Ioane Teitiota became the first person to apply for refugee status due to climate change. He and his family moved to New Zealand from the low-lying Pacific Islands of Kiribati, stating that rising sea levels had made it dan ...
Evan Fazio's blog The Trump administration will not renew the temporary protected status of more than 200,000 El Salvadorian nationals living in the United States. This episode of Deep Dish features Latin America experts from the Atlantic Council and ...
Brittany Broaders's blog mh_twr-munich-security-conference-2018_700x365.jpg Conference chairman Wolfgang Ischinger talks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 16, 2018. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle I spent last weekend in snowy Mun ...
Emily Baker's blog mh_off-the-rails_870x480.jpg mh_off-the-rails_870x480.jpg Let’s just catalogue all the ways the world seems to be going off the rails: In Italy, rightwing, Euroskeptic populists triumphed electorally, but left no clear path toward ...
Kim Heys's blog Niamh King, vice president for programs and strategic content at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, delivered the closing speech at the DePaul Law Review 2018 Symposium on March 23. Below are her remarks on the legacy of M. Cherif ...
Iain Whitaker's blog In the lead-up to our " Poets of the Podium: The Art of Speechwriting " program with the Poetry Foundation, the Council hosted a global affairs limerick competition. It's quite possibly the first ever of its kind. ...
Brittany Broaders's blog In just 60 seconds, Niall Ferguson, historian and political commentator, answers questions on networks, hierarchies, and Facebook. Watch the full talk on his new book, The Square and the Tower. What is network vs hierarchy? T ...
twr-colombia.jpg Emily Baker's blog It’s rare these days to see bipartisan agreement on any foreign policy issues. But assistance to Colombia is one of the bright exceptions. Starting in 1999, when President Clinton launched “Plan Colombia,” succes ...
Christina Thomas's blog Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro handily won reelection, but the international community rejected his election as a sham, and the United States responded with new sanctions. To explain what happened and what's next, Fr ...
Emily Baker's blog mh_twr-budapest-protest_800x480.jpg “The era of liberal democracy is over,” or so declared Viktor Orban after securing a fourth term as Hungary’s prime minister. A spate of recent books and articles maintain that illiberalism and ...
