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Professor V. Page Fortna received tenure at Columbia University’s Department of Political Science.

Professor Jack Snyder published an article entitled “The Crusade of Illusions” in the July/August 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs. Click here to read the article.

Professor Robert Jervis has several recent publications:  “Reports, Politics, and Intelligence Failures: The Case of Iraq”, Journal of Strategic Studies, January 2006. For full text click here.   “The Remaking of a Unipolar World”, Washington Quarterly, Summer 2006. For full text click here.   “The Politics and Psychology of Intelligence Reform”, The Forum, May 2006. […]

Electing to Fight, co-authored by SIWPS Professor Jack Snyder and Edward Mansfield of the University of Pennsylvania  has won the Foreword Book of the Year Gold Award in Political Science for 2005. For more information click here.

Professor Richard K. Betts published an article entitled “Blowtorch Bob in Baghdad” in the Summer 2006 issue of The American Interest. Click here to read the article.

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Professor Robert Jervis, the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, will receive the 2006 Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. Jervis was selected “for showing, scientifically and in policy terms, how cognitive psychology, politically contextualized, can illuminate strategies for the avoidance […]

Professor V. Page Fortna was awarded a Smith Richardson Foundation Junior Faculty Research Grant for her project on “The Political Decisiveness of War”.

Institute Affiliate Dr. Dana Burde was awarded grants from the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace for her research “Protecting Children from War and Ensuring their Prospects for the Future: Education in the Context of Crisis and Transition.” Click here to read more about this project.

The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies welcomes Lincoln Mitchell as Professor in the Practice of International Politics.

Professor Jack Snyder and Institute Affiliate Edward Mansfield published an article entitled “Prone to Violence: The Paradox of the Democratic Peace” in the Winter 2005/2006 issue of The National Interest. Click here to read the article.