The Women’s Initiative at Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), together with the Center for Global Development (CGD), has released a new report titled Accelerating Efforts to End Child Marriage.

According to SIPA senior research scholar Tim Naftali, Washington's joint military operation with Israel succeeded in killing a foreign leader, shattering a precedent that had been sustained for decades by a mix of moral, political, and logistical concerns.

Despite its sharp rhetoric over Iran, “Beijing cares much more about managing the United States than events in the Middle East,” said IGP Senior Research Scholar Julian Gewirtz, former senior director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the National Security Council under President Biden.

In this Q&A, CGEP scholars Richard Nephew, Dr. Karen Young, Daniel Sternoff, and Anne-Sophie Corbeau analyze the widening crisis, including disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, impacts on Gulf energy infrastructure, and the risks to global oil and gas prices.

A live stream with Lisa Anderson, James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations, on the emerging developments following the joint US-Israel coordinated strikes on Iran.

Rajan Menon, senior research scholar of International and Public Affairs, and Daniel R DePetris argue that the US war with Iran has already become regional: Iran is attacking American-aligned Arab states in the hope that they will pressure Trump to sign a ceasefire.

Julian Gewirtz, IGP Senior Research Scholar, on the likelihood of America pouring attention into the Middle East is to China’s advantage: “We only have so many aircraft carriers, we only have so much presidential time and attention.”

Richard Nephew, senior research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, writes: "The best chances for a deal will come with a successor regime in Tehran."

Timothy Naftali, senior research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, stated that Trump’s ambitions toward Cuba reminded him of December 2001: "In the wake of 9/11, the country’s willingness to tolerate threat was low, and its ambitions to make the world a safer place were high.”

The overarching themes of this year’s conference were (1) innovation and automation in banking, (2) banking supervision, and (3) digitalization and banking.