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News and Event Highlights

News and Event Highlights

Geopolitical Stability

Former President of Colombia and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Juan Manuel Santos urges contemporary leaders to harness constructive dialogue to confront global threats.

Sep 26 2025
Event Highlight
Democratic Resilience

"Richard Nixon understood as a lawyer — a good lawyer, actually — that he had to at least make justice look blind when he schemed against his enemies," said Timothy Naftali, an IGP Faculty Advisory Board member and former director of Nixon's presidential library.

Sep 26 2025
The Washington Post
IGP in the News
IGP Women's Initiative

IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Susana Malcorra, former director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, and IGP Women’s Initiative Director Rachel Vogelstein discussed new Beijing+30 report and the future of women’s rights globally.

Sep 25 2025
Event Highlight
Geopolitical Stability

As the conflict in Yemen becomes increasingly internationalized, Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, vice chairman of the country’s Presidential Leadership Council, argued that an independent South Yemen offers the best path forward.

Sep 25 2025
Event Highlight
Inclusive Prosperity and Macroeconomic Performance

“Our findings suggest that industrial policies can deliver measurable employment benefits in targeted strategic sectors, even in the short run,” write the authors, IGP Affiliated Faculty members Joseph E. Stiglitz and Eric Verhoogen, and Bilge Erten of Northeastern University.

Sep 24 2025
Brookings
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek via email Wednesday: "Mamdani has a solid lead and Cuomo has only two hopes. One is that Mamdani will perform badly in the debates in October -- something close to a disaster. The other is that barring a poor performance by Cuomo in the debates, he will have a chance of winning if both Sliwa and Adams drop out. There is nothing Cuomo can do himself alone."

Sep 24 2025
Newsweek
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

In a hall full of top officials and diplomats from all around the world, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Rappler co-founder, and IGP Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Maria Ressa called on the United Nations to win the battle for information integrity.

Sep 23 2025
Rappler
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

Here & Now's Jane Clayson speaks with historian and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member Tim Naftali about how President Trump's enemies list compares with former President Richard Nixon's during Watergate in the 1970s.

Sep 23 2025
WBUR
IGP in the News
Climate, Energy, and Sustainable Development

IGP Affiliated Faculty member José Antonio Ocampo's essay highlights the Sevilla Commitment’s significant advances, but also some of the important gaps.

Sep 23 2025
Multilateralism in Action
IGP in the News
Geopolitical Stability

Less than a year after the Assad regime fell in December 2024, the Institute of Global Politics welcomed Syrian Minister of Information Dr. Hamza al-Mustafa to discuss the future of Syria and the Middle East.

Sep 23 2025
Event Highlight