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News and Event Highlights

News and Event Highlights

Geopolitical Stability

IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Wally Adeyemo writes: "It is not too late to seize the reins of the next great economic reordering and steer the world economy toward a system that lives up to the promise of free trade."

Aug 19 2025
Foreign Affairs
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Democratic Resilience

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Ester Fuchs, professor of public policy and political science at Columbia University, breaks down what the national Democratic Party can learn from Mamdani's success in New York City, as well as how four candidates running as independents could affect the outcome of this race.

Aug 19 2025
FOX 5 NY
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Democratic Resilience

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "Based on this poll and other polling data, no single candidate could simply catch up to Mamdani."

Aug 18 2025
Newsweek
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Geopolitical Stability

“Some of Ukraine’s strongest defensive positions are in Donetsk, and ceding those defenses would position Russia to reattack in the future from a much more advantageous position,” said Columbia SIPA Senior Research Scholar David Shimer, who led Ukraine policy on the White House National Security Council during the Biden administration. Ceding the region, he said, would be a “massive concession.”

Aug 18 2025
New York Times
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Geopolitical Stability

"A total withdrawal from Donetsk would create vulnerabilities for Ukraine militarily because some of its most robust defenses are there, former U.S. officials and experts say. “Ceding those defenses would position Russia to reattack in the future with more of an advantage,” said Columbia SIPA Senior Research Scholar David Shimer, a former National Security Council official during the Biden administration.

Aug 18 2025
Wall Street Journal
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Geopolitical Stability

"Humanitarian assistance—not just food but also water, shelter and medical care that meets the needs of all Gazans—can and must get back on track," writes IGP Faculty Policy Director Jacob J. Lew.

Aug 14 2025
Foreign Affairs
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Democratic Resilience

"I would not make any big deal of this," Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek. "With so many polls being done, results that look like outliers or noteworthy changes need to be treated as possible due to normal sampling error, where you can get what looks like an outlier one out of twenty times."

Aug 12 2025
Newsweek
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Rapid Response

IGP hosted a Rapid Response examining the impact of university settlements on higher education, civil society, and democracy.

Aug 08 2025
Event Highlight
IGP Technology & Democracy Initiative

IGP researcher Jen Weedon writes: "The critical question isn't just 'What don't we know yet about how this AI might fail?' but also 'What do we already know, and that we're choosing not to address?'"

 

Aug 07 2025
Tech Policy Press
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Democratic Resilience

"This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire," writes IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Tim Naftali. "But at least Nixon faced constraints."

Aug 07 2025
The Atlantic
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