Chicago Council on Global Affairs

August 5, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

What Washington Must Do to Check China’s Coercion

The Western offer to the Global South need not premise itself on rejecting China but instead on the rules of the liberal, open capitalist system through which China and the United States have all thrived.

April 19, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Domestic Investments Can Aid All Democracies

Last summer's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a huge win for America's "green" game, but it also provoked worries among U.S. allies about the protectionism...

January 15, 2023 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Germany’s Bet on China Is a Crisis in the Making

If companies and their jobs leave for China, it will be hard for Germans to ignore the economic and social implications of significant job flight.

December 25, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Tweaking the Inflation Reduction Act Can Strengthen Democracies’ Hand

“Made in Democracy” is a better label than “Made in America” if the goal is to strengthen our collective Western economies as well as our political alliances.

November 2, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Made in America? Try Made in Democracy.

Excerpt President Biden is attempting to reassert U.S. global leadership and rally democracies to outcompete China and other authoritarian regimes that threaten a democratic, rules-based global political...

October 23, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Democracy Needs a New Sales Pitch

Here’s how to get the world excited about it again.

March 28, 2022 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Global Supply Chains Are Driving Conflict. They Can Be Rewired for Peace.

The immediate path to stopping Vladimir Putin’s brazen and brutal war in Ukraine may not be entirely clear, just yet. But one thing is certain: global supply chain dependencies on Russian oil and natural...

October 5, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

U.S. Must ‘Ally-shore’ to Reassure Partners, Reassert Power of Democracies

When we first introduced “ally-shoring” in Newsweek (seizing on then-USAID deputy administrator Bonnie Glick’s phraseology) as the most powerful path to rewire COVID-disrupted supply...

May 24, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

America needs healthy supply chains with allies

President Joe Biden recently came to Michigan — pushing America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China.  He held out...

September 10, 2020 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

‘Ally-shoring’ will help US rebuild economy and global leadership

Excerpt Like a giant global pause button, the COVID-19 crisis has forced us to look hard at our world, our relationships with people and governments across continents. It has also made vivid the fragility...

August 15, 2020 | Jonathan Schachter, Jonathan Schanzer

Palestinians part of intl. system despite rejecting every peace plan

Most Israelis, including the prime minister, seek a negotiated end to the conflict, with an end to all claims. This is the outcome to which both sides committed in the Oslo Accords.

July 13, 2020 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Re-Forge Strategic Alliances and Check China Abroad, Rebuild Economy at Home

The industrial heartlands of the U.S. and its European allies have become crucibles for the polarizing politics of neo-populism for a population left behind in the information age. Anxious and angry citizenry,...