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Check out our round up of the week's top stories in food, agriculture, and global development!

How can the US confront human rights abuses in China, without robbing athletes of the opportunity to compete on the world stage?

Check out our round up of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development!

Ivo Daalder discusses the annual Munich Security Conference.

A joint Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Levada Analytical Center survey shows few Russians or Americans expect great changes to US-Russia ties now or in the next 10 years, although both publics see the merits of collaboration.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post explores how the American public seems to be of two minds when it comes to military involvement in Afghanistan.

"You cannot build good foreign policy on dishonesty. But we keep trying to because no one pays for it," writes Elizabeth Shackelford.

Elizabeth Shackelford explains why it's time for Congress to reassert limitations on our use of war.

America’s unconditional security sector assistance has helped facilitate Ethiopia’s violent responses to opposition.

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

Americans want to play an active part in world affairs but are reassessing their foreign policy priorities and how they want to engage with the world.

If left unmitigated, hunger- and climate change-induced suffering in both Afghanistan and Haiti will likely exacerbate current political instability and conflict.

The Chicago City Council has tripled its legislation on foreign policy in the last four years.

Unlike their elders, young Americans don’t buy into US exceptionalism and are divided on whether the United States should play an active role or stay out of world affairs.

But Republicans and Democrats are sharply divided when it comes to immigration levels.

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.

The Council's Elizabeth Shackelford joins ABC 7 Chicago to discuss why getting Afghans and US allies out of harm's way is imperative as the crisis deepens.

"The US military footprint in the Greater Middle East is undermining US strategic priorities elsewhere in the world," Paul Poast argues.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog explains how Elizabeth Warren’s specific support base likely led to her downfall.

New Chicago Council-Japan Institute of International Affairs data find the Japanese public has greater confidence in US economic and military power than do Americans.