Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, and Michael Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science, have been inducted as Fellows into the American Academy of Political and Social Science. This title is given to a handful of scholars every year by the AAPSS and marks a lifetime of […]
The videorecording of the Saltzman Institute’s latest Ambassador Series Event has been made available on Columbia’s YouTube channel. Watch it here
Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia’s Department of Political Science, recently received the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Scholar in International Security Studies award. The award is given by the ISA in recognition of “major contributions to scholarship in the field both via their own research and writing and their […]
A videorecording of the 8th Annual Saltzman Forum, “Endgame: Afghanistan”, has been posted on Columbia’s YouTube channel.
Richard Betts, Director of the Saltzman Institute and of the International Security Policy Concentration at SIPA, received the Doolittle Award today from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. The award is given in honor of General James “Jimmy” Doolittle, the architect and leader of the World War II-era “Doolittle Raid” which resulted in […]
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, who is serving as Deputy to the UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy on Syria, addressed the United Nations Security Council to argue for sending more military observers to observe the cease-fire there. Dr. Guéhenno, also a Saltzman Institute member and the Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, was appointed to the […]
Those that have taken Dr. Robert Jervis’s intro class, International Politics, will understand what he meant when he characterized the Columbia University administration as “a black box.” Dr. Jervis’s realist metaphor is presented in the feature article of the latest issue of the Eye, the Spectator’s weekly magazine. The article, “The Black Box”, addresses the […]
Update: Dr. Gottlieb’s comments generated several other letters from readers, which have been posted on the New York Times’ web site. Dr. Gottlieb provides a brief response to them on the last page of the section. Saltzman Institute Member and Stuart Gottlieb, who teaches counterterrorism and US foreign policy at Columbia and Yale, has had […]
Austin Long, a Member of the Saltzman Institute and an Assistant Professor at SIPA, was interviewed for an episode of PBS NewsHour which addressed the possible outcome of an Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Dr. Long has been a prominent voice in the Iran issue at least since his 2007 paper in International […]
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, has been appointed as the Deputy Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria. Dr. Guéhenno will work under Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, […]
