The Kettering Foundation is a nonprofit, operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research. Kettering's research is distinctive because it is conducted from the perspective of citizens and focuses on what people can do collectively to address problems affecting their lives, their communities, and their nation. The foundation collaborates with an extensive network of community groups, professional associations, researchers, scholars, and citizens around the world as it seeks to identify and address the challenges to making democracy work as it should through interrelated program areas that focus on citizens, communities, and institutions. The theme of this issue of "Connections" is Kettering's Multinational Research, and focuses on the foundation's year long review of it's multinational research. Following an introduction, by Ruby Quantson, individual articles include the following: (1) Citizens in a Global Society (David Matthews); (2) Deliberation: Touching Lives across National Boundaries (Maura Casey); (3) From Skepticism to Engagement: Building Deliberative Faith among Israeli College Students (Idit Manosevitch); (4) The Mediated Town Halls of the Eastern Cape (Rod Amner); (5) The Library as a Community Center (Svetlana Gorokhova); (6) Learning with the Citizens' Accord Forum: Building a Shared Society in a Sustainable Democracy in Israel (Phillip D. Lurie); (7) A Comparative Study of Coastal Communities in Cuba and the United States (Paloma Dallas with Penny Dendy, Terry Jack, Esther Velis, and Virginia York); (8) The Kettering Foundation and China-US Relations (Wang Jisi); (9) The International Residents Network: A Self-Sustaining Instrument for Learning and Sharing (Ruby Quantson); (10) Meeting the Challenges of a World Divided: Engaging Whole Bodies Politic (Harold H. Saunders); and (11) Searching for Balance: America's Role in the World (Robert J. Kingston).