Experts from Columbia’s Institute of Global Politics and the Institute of Latin American Studies take stock of Argentina’s debt bailout and elections as US foreign economic policy enters a new phase.

Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member at Columbia University, said Ronald Reagan's legacy is a problem for Trump because while Reagan believed in international alliances and free trade, Trump does not.

IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Douglas Almond, professor of international and public affairs and economics, and IGP Senior Research Scholar Zoey Yiyuan Zhou of Columbia Climate School, were awarded the Prize for Best Data and Metrics at the 2025 Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) Conference for their paper “Biodiversity Co-Benefits in Carbon Markets? Evidence from Voluntary Offset Projects.”

IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at Columbia University, speaks to the demolition of the White House's East Wing and the 123 years of American history it embodied.

According to IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro, "There is an old expression in (Chicago) politics, 'don't make no waves, don't back no losers.' Mamdani is ahead and it looks like the only way for him to lose would be for Sliwa to drop out and endorse Cuomo.

According to Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member, energy has been used throughout history "as a coercive tool and a source of military and economic strength."

Institute of Global Politics (IGP) Carnegie Distinguished Fellow and former US Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines joined SIPA Professor Peter Clement to discuss how strategic transparency and “intelligence diplomacy” have reshaped alliances and modern national security.

IGP hosted a discussion with Nasser al-Kidwa, former Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, and Ehud Olmert, former Prime Minister of Israel, on the potential for lasting peace in the region.

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Anya Schiffrin and Natali Helberger, co-chairs of the Steering Committee, highlighted that “the current concentration of economic, technological and political power in the hands of a few Big Tech platforms that control large parts of the digital information infrastructure is a threat to democracy”.

Institute of Global Politics (IGP) Carnegie Distinguished Fellow and U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman joined Columbia Law School Dean Emeritus David Schizer for a conversation on strengthening democracy.