Saltzman Member and Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics Robert Jervis has published an article in Foreign Affairs on the potential for diplomacy with Iran over their nuclear program. In the piece, “Getting to Yes with Iran: The Challenges of Coercive Diplomacy,” Dr. Jervis notes that the US will need to “up its game” diplomatically to […]
Jack Snyder, SIWPS member and Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, and Erica Borghard, a Ph.D. student at Columbia’s Department of Political Science, have written a blog post on the potential damage of President Obama’s statements regarding Syrian movement or use of chemical weapons, “Evading Invasion: Syria’s Chemical Weapons and Obama’s Audience Costs.” The article, […]
Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics and Saltzman Institute member, has a new working paper, “Relations between the US and Iran: Threats and Promises,” Dr. Jervis gives a comprehensive review of the problems and possibilities in American negotiations with Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. Examining the efficacy of a carrot-and-stick approach […]
Abraham Wagner, an Affiliate of SIWPS and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism, has written a blog post for the Huffington Post on the decision by Director of Central Intelligence David Petraeus to resign his post following the revelation of an extramarital affair. Dr. Wagner argues that neither moral […]
Richard Betts, Director of the Saltzman Institute and Professor of War and Peace Studies at SIPA, has been named the “Routledge Super Author” for the month of November. The “Super Author” award, whose past winners include Lawrence Freedman and Noam Chomsky, showcases top political science authors who have published in Routledge journals. In addition to […]
Due to matters beyond our control the Kenneth N Waltz Lecture in International Relations featuring Dr. Robert Powell of UC Berkeley scheduled for November 1 has been CANCELLED, and will be rescheduled at a later date.
Austin Long, Member of SIWPS and Assistant Professor at SIPA, was interviewed Sunday about the possibility of a military strike in Iran to disrupt its nuclear program. Dr. Long, who co-wrote a report reviewing the potential effects of attacking Iran for the Iran Project, noted several problems with this approach–particularly that any option that would […]
Stuart Gottlieb, an Adjunct Professor at SIPA and a Member of SIWPS, was interviewed for an article published by GlobalPost. Dr. Gottlieb, a counterterrorism expert, saw the FBI’s surveillance and subsequent arrest of a Bangladeshi man who thought he was involved in a plot to blow up the Federal Reserve as evidence of “a whole variety […]
Austin Long, Assistant Professor at SIPA and SIWPS Member, gave an interview to GlobalPost on the conflict in Syria and the possible response by NATO. Dr. Long noted that the North Atlantic Treaty allows Turkey to ask for assistance if it is attacked, but given the relative strength of the Turkish and Syrian militaries, it […]
Austin Long, Assistant Professor at SIPA and a Member of the Saltzman Institute, has released the nineteenth paper in the Saltzman Working Paper Series. The paper, “Whack-a-Mole or Coup de Grace? Institutionalization and Leadership Targeting in Iraq and Afghanistan,” addresses the practice of pursuing high-level insurgent commanders which US-led forces have pursued in these two […]
