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Cities are embracing their role as international actors, but more resources are needed to fully realize the benefits of their global engagements.

Microbusinesses boomed during the pandemic. Now, John Austin makes the case for why local leaders need to support them.

The Council convened a task force to provide recommendations to advance the goals of the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

As rumors spread, Saeid Golkar argues why it's unlikely that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, succeeds his father.

Public support for US military bases on the continent is also on the rise, Council polling reveals.

But American concern about large numbers of immigrants and refugees coming into the country has steadily decreased over the past decades.

Faced with a new, less popular monarch, will a growing movement for republicanism accelerate in the Caribbean 'realms'?

And bipartisan majorities of Americans support admitting new members to the alliance, Council polling shows.

American feelings toward Russia and China are lower than during the Cold War, Council polling shows.

The Queen maintained public approval during her reign, but support for the monarchy is on the decline, posing significant challenges for the new King.

Local leaders from Colombia to Finland found success using venture capital strategies to manage risk and spur innovation, writes Robert Muggah.

In new Council polling, Americans say China’s treatment of minority groups isn’t just a question of internal politics.

The 2022 Chicago Council Survey finds broad support for taking in Afghan refugees but not for releasing frozen funds to the Taliban.

Should China invade Taiwan, 2022 Chicago Council Survey data show most Americans would support sending arms but not US troops.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit aroused Beijing’s ire—but more important may be the long-term trends in Taiwanese attitudes. 

In the aftermath of Jan. 6, some polls show a significant minority support using force to achieve political aims in some circumstances.

If the United States and China are competing over global public opinion, who’s winning, and where?

Turks may be considering realigning eastward amid negative views on Western alliances.

Nonresident Fellow Niamh King opened up a panel at the Aspen Security Forum discussing the national security challenges and opportunities of today.

Abe Shinzo’s assassination shocked the nation. Will constitutional revision be on the post-election agenda?

"Hossein Taeb’s sudden removal from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is part of a wider project to install a new generation of zealots," writes Saeid Golkar.

The majority of countries polled in a recent 53-nation study hold negative views of Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

Daniel Drezner explores the importance of leaders having an optimistic outlook and how far the optimism can go to build a better world.

Leaders at this year's G7 summit have a "unique, and potentially short, window of opportunity to breathe new life into the Western alliance."

Polling shows the Swedish public is keenly aware of the threat posed by Russia and favors a strong policy response to the invasion of Ukraine.

Paul Poast argues that President Biden's declaration that the US would defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China deserves a serious look.

Geographically targeted economic development strategies can serve as an antidote to political extremism in formerly industrial regions.

Old habits die hard for Russian elders, but younger Russians may be beginning to look West.

Republicans are more concerned about China's rise than ever before.

"Few modern leaders have miscalculated as badly as the Russian president has," Ivo Daalder writes. "Ukraine’s acceptance into NATO would represent the final defeat of his failed strategy."

Russians and Americans seem to sense a global alignment of democracies versus autocracies, and both publics fear a nuclear exchange.

A new poll reveals that Americans see Russia as a significant threat to US interests and support military and economic assistance to Ukraine.

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.

Zelenskyy’s wartime leadership has impressed the world. “You really never know who’s going to show up and rise to the challenge,” Elizabeth Shackelford tells VOA.

New data from the Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Council offer insights on how publics in the United States and Japan view the relationship between their countries.

Kyiv, a capital city under siege, falters under the dangers of urbicide. As the victor emerges, so too does a new world order.

Fifty years ago, US President Richard Nixon traveled to China and established the basis for a normalization of relations between the two powers. Are we due for another transformation?

Data suggest that Americans accept some foreign civilian casualties as a necessary cost to counterterrorism, but Republicans and Democrats differ on willingness to use lethal force.

Europeans may draw the line at military engagement with Russia, recent data show.

In a shift from just a month ago, the Japanese public favors tough sanctions on Russia in concert with the US and Europe. 

Putin is "hoping to divide Ukrainians, first and foremost, and hoping to find some leader he can install to do his bidding," predicts Ivo Daalder on ABC Radio.

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

While moderate Democrats are more supportive of funding the military, liberals are more willing to deploy troops to defend allies, 2021 Chicago Council Survey data show.

Does a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics have public support among countries doing so? Data show modest support—and skepticism.

Council surveys find that younger Americans are still forming their views on Taiwan and US-Taiwan relations.

"Foreign audiences should read [China's] resolution as a benchmark manifesto in the Party’s quest for China’s global power and legitimacy," writes Paul Heer in National Interest.

Younger Americans are more confident in US power vis-a-vis China and are more likely to oppose restrictions on scientific and educational exchanges between the two.

“As Africa’s farmers work to adapt to climate change, global leaders must do their part by keeping–and extending–the promises they made at COP26,” writes Roger Thurow in Project Syndicate.

“There is room for a very serious negotiation on the future of European security, the kind that Russian leaders in the past have asked for,” Ivo Daalder remarks on Nieuwsuur.

One year later, Americans remain divided over what happened on January 6, 2021. But they're united in concerns about future political violence.