SIWPS Member Austin Long has co-authored a blog post for the Washington Post assessing why Iraqi security forces have performed so poorly against ISIS militants in northern Iraq. Professor Long and his coauthors, MIT PhD candidate Keren Fraiman and Professor Caitlin Talmadge of George Washington University, argue that politicization, corruption, and poor intelligence are reducing the […]
SIWPS Member Austin Long was quoted in an article published today in the International Business Times about the capture of the Iraqi city Mosul by ISIS fighters. “There is a definite connection between what is going on in Fallujah and Mosul and what is going on in Syria,” Professor Long commented. “Syria is a huge […]
Saltzman Institute members Robert Jervis and Gregory Mitrovich have been selected to receive a $1.5 million grant issued by the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative for their project, “Culture in Power Transitions: Sino-American Conflict in the 21st Century.” Partnering with the University of Notre Dame and the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, their three-year project […]
SIWPS Member Alexander Cooley was quoted in the New York Times today about a newly-formed economic union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Cooley commented that the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union “is meant to signal that…Western programs and opprobrium are not having an effect on the [Russian] economy and that Russia is developing into […]
SWAMOS 2015
Spearheaded by Professor Robert Jervis, the International Relations Faculty Seminar was created to provide faculty with a forum in which to discuss current research and publications in the field. Participants include faculty from Columbia University and Barnard College, as well as professors and staff from the Council on Foreign Relations, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Hunter […]
The Institute of War and Peace Studies was founded in 1951 under the sponsorship of Dwight D. Eisenhower during his tenure as president of Columbia University. In March 2003, the Institute was renamed The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) in honor of Ambassador Arnold A. Saltzman. The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of […]
SIWPS Member Dipali Mukhopadhyay has coauthored a blog post for the Washington Post about the political role of warlords in Afghanistan’s nascent democracy. “Even as the international community looked to Karzai to promote ‘good governance,’ his own survival remained contingent on forming alliances with regional, muscular power brokers. The president performed the acts required of […]
Foreign Affairs has published an article by Cynthia Roberts entitled, “The Czar of Brinkmanship: A Classic Cold War Strategy Makes a Comeback in the Kremlin.” You can read her article here.
In a blog post for the Washington Post today, SIWPS Member Kimberly Marten describes how Moscow-backed local warlords may be emerging out of the political instability and violence in the Ukraine. “Amidst all the talk of whether the Russian or Ukrainian government bears greater responsibility for the violence in eastern Ukraine and Odessa, we may […]
