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Meet the SIPA Community

Diana brings us along for her day in the life; from classes to tiramisu and everything in between!

Mar 10 2026
Geopolitical Stability

Statecraft helps war-fighting as well as peacemaking, writes Saltzman Institute Director Elizabeth Saunders.

Mar 10 2026
Good Authority
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

According to Columbia University Professor Robert Shapiro, Trump's attempts to nationalize the highly decentralized electoral system "would make voting more difficult, and it is generally believed that this would disproportionately affect Democratic voters."

Mar 10 2026
Les Echos
In the Media
Technology & Innovation

In a working paper co-written by Anya Schiffrin and Roberta Carlini, the authors propose statutory licensing, a proposal requiring AI companies to pay publishers for journalism used to train their systems, past and future.

Mar 09 2026
Poynter
In the Media
Climate & Sustainable Development

“They are being successful in severely constricting the flow of everything—not just oil, it’s also natural gas—and that is clearly having an impact on world energy prices,” said Daniel Sternoff, a senior fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.

Mar 06 2026
The New York Times
In the Media
Meet the SIPA Community

Nonya speaks with her fellow classmate. Bridgette Lang ’26, about her SIPA experience and what the SIPA community has meant to her over the last two years.

Mar 06 2026
Admissions Blog
Geopolitical Stability

“For many presidents, the lesson seemed to be: Don’t allow the realities of war into people’s living rooms if you can help it,” said Timothy Naftali, senior research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Mar 06 2026
Free Speech Center
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

Thomas J. Christensen, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, argues that the most significant factor shaping the upcoming Trump-Xi meetings will be Beijing’s perception of its own apparent success in 2025 in responding to U.S. threats with resolute counterthreats.

Mar 06 2026
Foreign Affairs
In the Media
Inclusive Prosperity

Rachel Vogelstein, director of the Women’s Initiative at Columbia’s Institute of Global Politics and co-author of the new report, said that in the past 25 years, the rate of child marriage globally has decreased from 1 in 4 girls married as children to 1 in 5. But advocates and researchers are troubled by a trend of countries shifting priorities and resources away from gender equality and ending child marriage.

Mar 05 2026
The 19th News
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew says he's most concerned that the administration hasn't fully weighed the risks of a broader conflict as it wages war in Iran.

Mar 05 2026
CNN
In the Media