SIWPS Visiting Scholar Susanna Campbell has a new book, with David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam, editors, A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding (London: Zed Books, Nov. 2011). This collection of essays on peacebuilding uses case studies to examine the validity of arguments in support of and opposed to liberal peace theory, as […]
On December 26, 2011 in Connecticut, Annette Baker Fox died peacefully, just two months shy of her 100th birthday. Since 1963, Dr. Fox has been an Associate Research Scholar at the Institute of War and Peace Studies, and served as Director of the Canadian Studies Program from 1977-84. Married to the Institute’s first Director, William […]
SIWPS Director and Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Betts took part in a CFR “Media Conference Call” on January 10th. The event involved Dr. Betts and Dr. Max Boot, a CFR Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, taking questions from the public in an open forum. […]
On Wednesday, January 18th, Dr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, a member of the Saltzman Institute and the Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, will be speaking at R2P: The Next Decade. The conference marks the 10th anniversary of the conception of the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P), the principle that states have an obligation to protect […]
SIWPS Member Austin Long has published an article, co-written with Dr. Elbridge Colby, in the National Interest on the possible results of a military strike on Iran. The piece, titled “Why Not to Attack Iran,” argues that the results of an attack on Iran would not be as simple as proponents of such a strike […]
The Council on Foreign Relations has published a new article on SIWPS Director Richard Betts’s latest book, American Force: Dangers, Delusions and Dilemmas in National Security. The article points out that Obama’s latest call for a “smaller, more agile” military force aligns with Dr. Betts’s prescription to use an “all-in or stay out” policy, with […]
SIWPS Member Dr. Kenneth Waltz was interviewed by Foreign Policy‘s “Inside the Ivory Tower,” a special report on the top international relations schools and scholars. The interview was part of a survey of “seven giants of the international relations field” on the foreign policy challenges and opportunities facing the United States today. The results of […]
On Friday, December 28, SIWPS Director Richard Betts was interviewed for WNYC on the Brian Lehrer Show about his latest book, American Force: Dangers, Delusions and Dilemmas in National Security. The interview dealt with his view of the Iraq War – its justification and its outcome – as well as the position of the US […]
Dr. Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Saltzman Institute Member, has written the introduction to H-Diplo’s latest Roundtable Review. This Roundtable Review brings together experts from the global political science community as well as from the ranks of the CIA’s historians to discuss the topics raised by the […]
The Columbia University Press Blog, which highlights newly published books from CUP, has featured Saltzman Institute Director Richard Betts’s latest book, American Force: Dangers, Dilemmas and Delusions in National Security in this week’s review. Read it at the Columbia University Press’s blog.
