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News and Event Highlights

News and Event Highlights

Democratic Resilience

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "This is very plausible. Historically in the US, we have had Vice Presidents being the obvious candidate once incumbents presidents have served their terms, or sometime later."

Aug 05 2025
Newsweek
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Democratic Resilience

Columbia SIPA professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty member Robert Y. Shapiro to Newsweek: "The Democratic primary polling is much too early and all we are seeing is name recognition for past presidential candidates and ones in the news lately in a visible way."

Aug 01 2025
Newsweek
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IGP Technology & Democracy Initiative

ROOST, a non-profit organization incubated at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics, is dedicated to building scalable, resilient, and open-source safety tools for the AI era.

Jul 31 2025
Announcement
IGP Technology & Democracy Initiative

When a foreign competitor gains an unexpected technological capability, it can precipitate conflict, writes senior research scholar Julian Gewirtz.

Jul 29 2025
Financial Times
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Technology and Innovation

The Institute for Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) convened an intimate group of leading experts for a closed-door convening to tackle cutting-edge academic and policy questions regarding the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for strategy and grand strategy.

Jul 28 2025
Event Highlight
Democratic Resilience

Ester Fuchs, Columbia SIPA professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty member, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the New York City mayoral race and what it could mean for education in the city.

Jul 28 2025
Education Next
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Geopolitical Stability

Beijing thinks it holds all the cards as Trump attacks allies, writes senior research scholar Julian Gewirtz.

Jul 24 2025
Foreign Policy
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IGP Technology & Democracy Initiative

Maria Ressa — professor of professional practice at Columbia SIPA and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member — discusses her work “to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

Jul 24 2025
Capital for Good
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Climate, Energy, and Sustainable Development

IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Wally Adeyemo, who was a key architect of Russia sanctions in the Biden administration, said Trump should move quickly to take advantage of relatively low global oil prices and ramp up economic pressure on China for its support of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Jul 24 2025
Semafor
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Inclusive Prosperity and Macroeconomic Performance

In The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It, Joseph Stiglitz draws writings from across his five-decade-long career into a broad analytical framework that describes what causes and perpetuates inequality.

Jul 23 2025
LSE Review of Books
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