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Climate & Sustainable Development

Jason Bordoff, the founding director at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, discusses why the war in Iran is driving up oil prices and why they may go even higher.

Mar 05 2026
ABC News
In the Media
Inclusive Prosperity

SIPA Professors Rachel Vogelstein and Yasmine Ergas discuss the state of women’s rights today, tracing progress since the Beijing Declaration and examining how recent setbacks risk reversing hard-won gains from the past three decades.

Mar 05 2026
Columbia University Libraries Podcasts
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses the staggering economic burden and human rights implications of child marriage, which affects 12 million girls annually.

Mar 05 2026
Forbes
In the Media
Inclusive Prosperity

A new report produced by the Institute of Global Politics Women’s Initiative shines a light on the detrimental impacts and root causes that drive child marriage across the globe. The report was commissioned by Sheryl Sandberg, founder of Lean In, with support from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, faculty advisory board chair of the Institute of Global Politics.

Mar 04 2026
Women's Media Center
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

Cathleen Jeanty MIA ’27 navigated the throngs at this year’s Munich Security Conference as a member of the press, but what she encountered revealed quite a lot about the state of international politics.

Mar 04 2026
Student Spotlight
Geopolitical Stability

Rajan Menon, senior research scholar at the Saltzman Institute, rejects the assumptions that Europe can't defend itself without the U.S., claiming that this mindset is the product of decades of American strategy. Menon shows how Europe's chosen dependence could be overcome, and why the Trump era makes it both possible and necessary.

Mar 04 2026
The Institute of Art and Ideas
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke Wednesday about efforts to end child marriage at the Institute of Global Politics' Women's Initiative.

Mar 04 2026
PBS News
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

Jack Lew, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former U.S. ambassador to Israel, discusses the war in Iran, stating that "I haven't heard a clear explanation of what the goal is. The administration could've done a much better job explaining why we're committing U.S. troops to this battle."

Mar 04 2026
CNBC
In the Media
Meet the SIPA Community

Rory Callison shares how studying social policy grounded his understanding of politics in the everyday realities that shape people’s lives.

Mar 04 2026
Student Spotlight
Inclusive Prosperity

“We’re at this pivotal moment where we could either continue to make progress or go backwards,” said Rachel Vogelstein, a professor and director of the Institute of Global Politics Women’s Initiative at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She is co-author of a new report on the economic costs of child marriage.

Mar 04 2026
Wall Street Journal
In the Media