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The Port of Darwin shows the potential of China's Belt and Road Initiative as social infrastructure, but also the challenges in materializing its benefits.

Recent years have tested the resiliency of farmers with trade wars, catastrophic floods, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, but farmers are still farming.

Council expert Ian Klaus examines how history will remember the almost simultaneous global mobilization of policy and resources, as well as local urban adaptations and interventions.

A majority support using US troops to defend Seoul should North Korea invade, Council polling shows.

Check out our weekly round up of the top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

In this blog post from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, we discuss if the European Union can stay politically relevant after COVID-19 and Brexit.

The Biden Administration has the opportunity to build on a strong foundation of food and nutrition security programs to alleviate hunger and malnutrition.

A recent study suggests that the food insecure population will quadruple in Washington state as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Over half of Americans are in favor of permanently changing laws to allow everyone to vote by mail, but there are partisan divides between Republicans and Democrats.Over half of Americans are in favor of permanently changing laws to allow everyone

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

How the Chicago Council on Global Affairs is handling the stay-at-home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Amid growing anxiety among experts and health officials, how do publics in countries around the world perceive the threat of the coronavirus?

Reflect on the year with highlights from the Council's public opinion research and analysis.

Lima 2035 shares their ambitious plan to change urban food systems to transform the world’s driest megacity.

Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) uses the information highway to deliver food security results during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, new polling finds that Americans still see international terrorism as a critical threat.

One of the defining features of 2020 has been the declaration of seemly one crisis after another, but why are some events declared crisis and why are others not?

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.

Examples around the world make clear that density—whether low or high—is no excuse when it comes to the appalling number of COVID-19 cases facing the United States.