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

China's evolving economy and geopolitical strategy affect infrastructure and cities worldwide: witness the launch of the China-Laos Railway.

The Council and Girl Security partnered to engage the next generation of women in national security.

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.

In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post, Craig Kafura explores how Millennials hold distinct views on US-China foreign policy.

The American public is increasingly skeptical of the US-China trade relationship, and narrow majorities support increased restrictions on both trade and technological exchanges.

It has now been a year since many nations began to implement restrictions due to the pandemic. As the global health crisis drags into its second year, more people seek the vaccine as a way to return to normal.

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs explores how to advance a more sustainable and inclusive global food system even with increasing water scarcity.

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

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the quality of governance and competence of the world’s leaders. When politicians and civil servants fail to deliver, they quickly lose credibility and legitimacy.

NATO has only grown since Putin's plan backfired. "This will be seen as one of the greatest strategic failures in history," says Ivo Daalder.

"The signal that it sends to Vladimir Putin that the allies are committed to supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes [...] is very important," says Mitchel Wallerstein.

Craig Kafura offers his take on what came out of US President Joe Biden's meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

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

Military conscription is a good start, but leaders in Taipei need to act with greater urgency still, Ethan Kessler writes.

"Offering Ukraine something other than NATO membership would send a message to Moscow that the US is committed to Ukraine’s security—but only up to a point," Paul Poast argues.

"The G-7 approach has three facets: ignore Russian intimidation, economically decouple from China and court nations throughout the Global South," Paul Poast writes.

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

In late February, a group of global women leaders signed an open letter, calling for government and private sector leaders to take legal and social action to promote gender inclusion and female empowerment.

"No Brazilian leader has been so effusively pro-miner—or anti-Indigenous—as the former army captain and gold-prospecting hobbyist Bolsonaro,” writes Rob Muggah.

Even everyday Republicans are now more positive than Democrats toward Russia, according to several opinion polls.

Is the United States retreating from the world? Anyone watching the presidential campaign can be forgiven for thinking that Americans want little to do with what occurs beyond their borders.

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.

"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."

Cities recognize the importance of city diplomacy but also lack necessary resources to fulfill the commitments they make to global agendas, Council fellows Kris Hartley and Michele Acuto explain.

As world leaders meet in Japan, they are likely to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine, tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and economic coercion from China, Craig Kafura tells Steve Scully.

Ukraine joining NATO will not increase tensions. It will reduce them, argue Ivo Daadler, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and Stefano Stefanini.

One of the emerging lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that countries and companies that digitised early are more likely to recover faster than those that did not

“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.

Ivo Daalder discusses Barack Obama's European legacy.

"The French leader’s rhetorical bombs demonstrate a lack of seriousness — they also undermine the Ukrainian cause," argues Ivo Daalder.

NATO "no longer has the luxury of ignoring the how and when" of Ukraine joining, argues Council CEO Ivo Daalder.

Chicago elected officials and environmental leaders react to President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.

Transatlantic leaders can share ideas, tools, and strategies to help bridge economic divides between struggling heartland communities and thriving cities.

As the run-off vote looms at the end of October, the far-right’s misinformation machine is going into overdrive, writes Robert Muggah.

By the time of this week’s Democratic presidential debate, President Trump should be ensconced in meetings with counterparts at an international summit gathering in Osaka, Japan.

"Early poll suggests South Koreans prefer Democratic leader as next peastolitical leader, but caveats abound," writes Marshall M. Bouton Fellow Karl Friedhoff.

The South Korean leader’s approval rates have held steady since the deadly crowd crush, Karl Friedhoff writes.

Karl Friedhoff joins the NK News podcast to unpack public polling on nuclear weapons, Pyongyang, and more.

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

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.

Distinguished Fellow Dan Glickman, former US secretary of agriculture, says he has little worry about the status of the farm bill.

The immediate threat of war has passed but Asian allies have little to celebrate.

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

This episode of Defense One, Ivo Daalder takes a look at America’s changing place in a rapidly-changing world. Are Americans ready, willing, and able to be the global security leaders of this century?

Successive US administrations have sought to halt and reverse North Korea's nuclear quest through threats, inducements, and negotiations. None succeeded.

Western countries should use national and international tools to hinder Wagner’s growing global abuse, Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

We need a different approach, one that is more realistic about the growing threat North Korea represents.

"Even when 'people power' succeeds in ousting oppressive leaders, there is no guarantee that what comes next is peace or democracy," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

As city leaders move beyond coping with the COVID-19 crisis to imagining the future, how to move—literally—poses a challenge.