Séverine Autesserre, Associate Professor of Political Science and Institute member appeared on the Canadian channel TVO to discuss “Democracy in Congo.” The 25 minute segment can be viewed here.
Institute member Anne Nelson published an article in “Foreign Affairs” in which she discusses the opportunities and obstacles to renewing trade relations between the U.S. and Cuba, gaps in information technology, and Cuban adaptions to isolation. You can read the article, “Business Unusual in Cuba,” here.
We are pleased to announce that Séverine Autesserre, Associate Professor of Political Science and Institute member, was awarded a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, which provides support for intellectuals in science, law, technology, business, and public policy whose research addresses urgent contemporary issues from fresh perspectives. She is one of 33 fellowship winners, each of […]
Institute members Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder published an article in Foreign Affairs in which they show how international ratings such as Transparency International’s ranking of international corruption levels and the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index “dumb down” global governance. These international ratings, they argue, are often based on unexamined assumptions that can […]
Institute member Stuart Gottlieb published a letter to the editor of the New York Times, in which he underscores the importance of trying to understand (and defeat) the political ideology that drives radicalization and compels people to join violent movements. “The hard reality,” Gottlieb argues, “is that the longer a militant movement… appears to be […]
Institute member Stuart Gottlieb responds to a letter to the editor of the New York Times urging Americans to try to bridge the political divide and “reclaim the place of reason in our political life.” “The genius of the American system,” Gottlieb argues, “is that only the outcome needs to be reasonable and rational – […]
Austin Long, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at SIPA, is the author of the newly released book The Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK. In the book, Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency operations during the Cold War and in recent years by three organizations: the US […]
Kimberly Marten shares her thoughts on the state of US-Russian relations. She is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She directs the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at […]
The Washington Post has selected “Rank has its Privileges,” an essay by SIWPS members Jack Snyder and Alexander Cooley published in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs, as one of the recipients of its seventh annual “Albies” for the best writing on political economy of 2015. The award is designated by Daniel Drezner, professor of […]
SIWPS member Robert Jervis was interviewed about his career on Episode 86 of “Global Dispatches,” an international relations podcast that features interviews with academics, journalists and policy makers who discuss the big events, ideas, and influences that shaped their worldviews from an early age. Jervis speaks at length with “Global Dispatches” host Mark Goldberg about […]
