http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events Events at SIPA, Faculty News, and Faculty in the News en-us SIPA, Columbia University sipaevents@columbia.edu sipa-webmaster@columbia.edu FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:16:14 -0500 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:16:34 -0500 Education, New, Politics http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/ConversationPatriciaGrossiReis12142011.html Patricia Grossi Reis was working in London, England, for ChildrensAid, a non-profit organization that supports projects for at-risk children in her home country of Brazil. As a member of SIPA's MPA in Environmental Science & Policy Class of 2012, Patricia plans to combine her experience in direct marketing for a non-profit organization with her new knowledge of environmental policy to make a career change she has long been considering. For Patricia, her time in the classroom has just been a small part of her educational experience. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:09:18 -0500 http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/ConversationPatriciaGrossiReis12142011.html http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/ConversationwithScottBarrett12052011.html As the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute, Scott Barrett is focused on transnational and global challenges, ranging from infectious disease eradication to climate change. In addition to teaching and research, Barrett has advised a number of international organizations, including the European Commission, the World Bank, and the United Nations. He is the author of Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making and Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:09:58 -0500 http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/ConversationwithScottBarrett12052011.html http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/LeadersinGlobalEnergySeekingSolutions12122011.html Portuguese architect and Pritzker Prize Laureate Eduardo Souto de Moura was one of several distinguished guests to address the SIPA community during the school’s 2011 Leaders in Global Energy series. In a joint presentation with Columbia's World Leaders Forum, Mr. Souto de Moura highlighted his most recent design of a home, innovative use of natural light in a museum, intelligent and cost-efficient use of new materials in a skyscraper, and a new approach to the construction of a soccer stadium within its natural surroundings. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:11:00 -0500 http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/LeadersinGlobalEnergySeekingSolutions12122011.html http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/LawrenceHSummers12012011.html Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, former Director of the White House National Economic Council, andformer U.S. Secretary of theTreasury, delivered the Gabriel Silver Memorial Lecture on December 1. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:11:42 -0500 http://sipa.columbia.edu//news_events/announcements/LawrenceHSummers12012011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GLADHonorees11012011.html At its 12th annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner on April 26, 2012, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will honor three guardians of the public interest who have worked to advance the study of international relations on one of the world’s most volatile stages, improve the lives of our planet’s most impoverished citizens, and focus attention on the U.S. federal deficit. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:01:48 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GLADHonorees11012011.html http://columbiasipa.tumblr.com/post/13503840005/cities-of-the-future Eduardo Souto de Moura, the 2011 Pritzker Prize Laureate, gave a lecture on Thursday, November 17 as part of SIPA's Leaders in Global Energy Series. He highlighted his most recent design of a home, his innovative use of natural light in a museum (with no artificial light whatsoever), intelligent and cost-efficient use of new materials in a skyscraper, and a new approach to the construction of a soccer stadium within its natural surroundings. During the Q&A session of the lecture, Mr. Souto de Moura said, "Architecture is like an iceberg," implying that we have only tapped into the tip of intelligent, sustainable design of the future. SIPA live-tweeted the event: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:12:32 -0500 http://columbiasipa.tumblr.com/post/13503840005/cities-of-the-future http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/EveryWomanEveryChild11012011.html Modesta, a Malawi mother-to-be, groans in pain from a contraction. She is in labor. Not too long ago, she may have been alone during this time, with only her medically untrained family for support. She would have risked complications and even death for her and her child because her village had no clinic and was too remote to reach any medical facilities in time. Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:02:36 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/EveryWomanEveryChild11012011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/InsuranceandHospitalStays10282011.html Professor Douglas Almond recently published a new article in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, titled “After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays.” Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:03:43 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/InsuranceandHospitalStays10282011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/ConflictResolutiontoPeaceBuilding09302011.html SIPA’s Center for International Conflict Resolution hosted its 11th annual Peace Building Fieldwork Symposium on September 26. The symposium is the capstone event of Applied Peacebuilding: Core Competencies for Fieldwork, led by Zachary Metz, who gave a brief introduction: “This class was founded eleven years ago when actually the terminology of peace-building was really not in vogue,” said Metz. “There was a move from a paradigm of conflict resolution to a notion of building something.” Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:05:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/ConflictResolutiontoPeaceBuilding09302011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SavingForestsinHaiti09282011.html As international attention focused on Haiti after the devastating earthquake in January 2010, SIPA students focused their Capstone workshops on Haiti as well. One team joined an Earth Institute workshop to study environmental issues, examining the energy and deforestation challenges in the country. John Burnett (MPA ‘11), who concentrated in Energy and Environment at SIPA, knows Haiti, its people, and its challenges well. He was in Port-au-Prince during the earthquake. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:05:54 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SavingForestsinHaiti09282011.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NobuoTanaka09152010.html SIPA's Leaders in Global Energy series continues this fall. The series featured last year a discussion with Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency. The series is supported by a gift from EDP-Energias de Portugal Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:55:55 -0400 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NobuoTanaka09152010.html http://www.amazon.com/Behavioral-Theory-Elections-Jonathan-Bendor/dp/0691135061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312895069&sr=8-1 Professor Michael Ting's new book, A Behavioral Theory of Elections, examines the "bounded rationality" of voters and political actors. Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:15:29 -0400 http://www.amazon.com/Behavioral-Theory-Elections-Jonathan-Bendor/dp/0691135061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312895069&sr=8-1 http://columbiasipa.tumblr.com/post/8662218286/sipa-students-light-the-world-with-solar-energy-a An economic and political development workshop team is bringing the magic of solar lighting to communities cut off from the rest of the world Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:16:04 -0400 http://columbiasipa.tumblr.com/post/8662218286/sipa-students-light-the-world-with-solar-energy-a http://www.mariaywang.com/ Maria Wang (MPA '12) shares her experiences in Dili, Timor-Leste. She is one of 26 students from SIPA's development practice program working in the field this summer Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:04:03 -0400 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/JohnHCoatsworthInterimProvost06292011.html Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger has appointed SIPA Dean John H. Coatsworth as interim provost of the University. Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:02:44 -0400 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/JohnHCoatsworthInterimProvost06292011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SocialEnterpriseTableforTwo06062011.html A 2011 social enterprise class at SIPA launched a nonprofit organization to fight obesity in wealthy countries and malnutrition in poor ones. Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:32:44 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SocialEnterpriseTableforTwo06062011.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NinaSun05182011.html Jian Ni “Nina” Sun (MIA ’01) was awarded the Columbia Alumni Medal at the 2011 University Commencement. The Alumni Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the Columbia Alumni Association for distinguished service to the University. Wed, 18 May 2011 13:54:28 -0400 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NinaSun05182011.html Announcement http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/Graduation2011-05142011.html Former UN Secretary-General, Nobel Peace laureate, and SIPA Global Fellow Kofi Annan told graduates: It is your "responsibility to apply the knowledge you have gained and the analytical skills you have learned to help find and deliver the solutions to improve lives, extend opportunities, and serve your communities.” Wed, 18 May 2011 13:52:13 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/Graduation2011-05142011.html Announcement http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/OBLDeathAnalysis05022011.html SIPA faculty and alumni are discussing the implications of the death of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind. Fri, 13 May 2011 14:08:27 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/OBLDeathAnalysis05022011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FreshKillsSolarStudyNYC04252011.html Thanks to a 2009 SIPA study, New York City is moving forward with plans to install solar panels atop two closed landfills. The program, announced last week by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, could generate power for 50,000 homes and help the city reduce carbon gas emissions. Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:57:10 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FreshKillsSolarStudyNYC04252011.html Announcement http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/AlumniDay04182011.html About 150 alumni returned to SIPA on April 16 for the School’s third annual Alumni Day. Beyond providing an opportunity for alumni to visit with old friends and network with new ones, this year’s Alumni Day gave attendees a front-row seat for the hottest current events of the day, with a series of discussions on President Obama’s performance, U.S.-China trade, Afghanistan, and flashpoints in the Middle East, capped off by remarks from a prominent broadcast news anchor and SIPA alumna. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:09:35 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/AlumniDay04182011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/BRICLab04132011.html Four of the world’s fastest growing economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRIC nations – now have a special forum at SIPA: the BRICLab. Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:00:51 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/BRICLab04132011.html Announcement http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/MichelleBacheletCommunique03023011.html Former President of Chile Discusses Life as a Female Leader and Her New Role at the UN By Marie O’Reilly, Communiqué Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:01:50 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/MichelleBacheletCommunique03023011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/EgyptInTransition03092011.html Five experts on democracy and Middle Eastern politics discussed Egypt's uprising at a panel at SIPA – "The Egyptian Transition in Context." Alfred C. Stepan, Professor of Government and former Dean of SIPA, noted that Egypt's political upheaval is extraordinarily significant because no Arab country is currently considered a democracy. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:07:12 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/EgyptInTransition03092011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/ArmsTradeTreaty03012011.html "The arms trade is out of control at the moment.” So says Anna MacDonald, one of four experts who spoke about the prospects for a global treaty on conventional weapons at a SIPA panel discussion. MacDonald is head of Oxfam's Control Arms campaign. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:04:37 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/ArmsTradeTreaty03012011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/DavidMiller-InvestcorpLecture02032011.html Program’s Success, Future of Markets David Miller, chief investment officer for the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), will deliver SIPA's Investcorp Lecture on February 25. Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:14:57 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/DavidMiller-InvestcorpLecture02032011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanews_jan11.pdf#page=22 SIPA News: The Water Issue features a surfer and a fisherman leading the way to curb runoff pollution on the New Jersey shore. Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:13:37 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanews_jan11.pdf#page=22 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GlobalLeadershipAwards02032011.html On April 14, SIPA will honor a trio of guardians of the public interest in economic policymaking, human rights advocacy, and homeland security practice. Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:11:26 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GlobalLeadershipAwards02032011.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewWorldNewCapitalismConference02042011.html Five SIPA students participated in a global economic conference in Paris, "New World, New Capitalism," and presented research on the international monetary system. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:08:59 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewWorldNewCapitalismConference02042011.html http://news.columbia.edu/climate/2286 Professor Scott Barrett says "If we break up the problem into smaller pieces we’re more likely to have a dramatic impact in the end." Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:06:59 -0500 http://news.columbia.edu/climate/2286 http://northattan.com/2010/11/19/columbia-veterans-organize-drive-for-afghan-children/ The Columbia SIPA Veterans Association hopes to crush last year’s bounty that yielded over 600 pounds of paper, notebooks, crayons and other school supplies. Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:19:16 -0500 http://northattan.com/2010/11/19/columbia-veterans-organize-drive-for-afghan-children/ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/HammerPLAnycChinese11172010.html Professor Stephen Hammer led a Chinese translation of New York City's sustainability plan to teach government officials across China. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:24:11 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/HammerPLAnycChinese11172010.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/CarlosTavares11052010.html SIPA's Leaders in Global Energy series hosted Nissan, which demonstrated its zero-emission LEAF and the company's approach to sustainability. Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:32:55 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/CarlosTavares11052010.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/MichaelMalefakisCBS11082010.html Michael Malefakis (MIA ’90) is responsible for leading the Executive Education team in the creation and delivery of high quality custom and open enrollment executive education programs worldwide. Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:34:02 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/MichaelMalefakisCBS11082010.html http://news.columbia.edu/dorianwarren Assessing the Midterm Elections “Voters did not vote necessarily for the Republican candidates. This was a vote against the party in power,” said Professor Dorian Warren. Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:27:30 -0500 http://news.columbia.edu/dorianwarren http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/PickerCenter10thAnniversary10292010.html The Picker Center is celebrating ten years of meeting the educational needs of mid-career learners unable to attend school full-time Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:25:30 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/PickerCenter10thAnniversary10292010.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/DigitalMedia10282010.html Leaders from YouTube and MTV spoke with students about promoting social and political advocacy through online videos and other channels Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:30:36 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/DigitalMedia10282010.html http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/2033 Twenty-seven year old Monique Tuyisenge-Onyegbula (MIA '10) has already witnessed four wars in Rwanda, Cote d’Ivoire, Iraq and Afghanistan. It has been a long journey for Tuyisenge-Onyegbula. Her goal: To help bring peace to communities affected by violence. More from ColumbiaNews. Fri, 14 May 2010 22:01:13 -0400 http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/2033 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FGVDualDegree2010.html As part of SIPA’s effort to expand its network of global partners, the School is establishing a new dual degree in São Paulo, Brazil. The deans from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Fundação Getulio Vargas Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV-EAESP) signed the agreement in New York on May 3. The first class is expected to enroll in the fall of 2010. Thu, 13 May 2010 05:36:56 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FGVDualDegree2010.html http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/05/11/u-s-weighs-official-terrorist-organization-status-for-the-pakistani-taliban.aspx Professor Abbas said “I’m pretty surprised that it has taken the U.S. government such a long time to do this. This is certainly one of the most lethal [terrorist] groups in South Asia and I would rank it in the top five of all international terror groups.” Tue, 11 May 2010 05:35:19 -0400 http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/05/11/u-s-weighs-official-terrorist-organization-status-for-the-pakistani-taliban.aspx http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126637615 Professor Sachs discusses the Greek financial crisis worries of spreading financial panic to other countries. Professor Sachs talks about contagion — and its financial-world antidote, "shock treatment. Mon, 10 May 2010 05:34:16 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126637615 http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/07/the_radicalization_of_faisal_shahzad Professor Abbas writes "Based partly on my studies of Muslim youth in the West, I suspect that Shahzad was first influenced by various websites that encourage and propagate extremist religious views, mixing religious bigotry and dogma with conspiracy theories specifically targeting a younger generation of Muslims living in the West." Fri, 07 May 2010 05:32:58 -0400 http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/07/the_radicalization_of_faisal_shahzad http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/world/middleeast/06cairo.html Lisa Anderson, former SIPA dean and provost at the American University in Cairo, said “For a lot of the kids here, the idea that you are supposed to have your own ideas is a novelty. There was nothing in their previous education that would have exposed them to these standards." Wed, 05 May 2010 05:31:46 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/world/middleeast/06cairo.html http://www.ny1.com/content/118024/-i-one-on-1---i--joseph-stiglitz-stocks-up-on-economic-insight Professor Stiglitz comments on the financial crisis. "There was a bubble. That the bubble would eventually break, that when it broke there would be chaos in its wake. To me it was hard to understand how they could not see the problems that were coming. (Video) Mon, 03 May 2010 05:30:27 -0400 http://www.ny1.com/content/118024/-i-one-on-1---i--joseph-stiglitz-stocks-up-on-economic-insight http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703969204575219402083722816.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_PoliticsNCampaign_4 Professor de la Garza said a Major League Baseball boycott of Arizona could have a significant impact. "Imagine baseball without Latinos. Imagine if the Latino ball players don't go" to the all-star game next year. He said if sports league's get involved "that'll change the ball game." Tue, 04 May 2010 05:27:45 -0400 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703969204575219402083722816.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_PoliticsNCampaign_4 http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/04/30/will-baseball-teams-boycott-arizona.aspx Professor de la Garza said a Major League Baseball boycott of Arizona could have a significant impact. "Imagine baseball without Latinos. Imagine if the Latino ball players don't go" to the all-star game next year. He said if sports league's get involved "that'll change the ball game." Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:26:41 -0400 http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/04/30/will-baseball-teams-boycott-arizona.aspx http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/nyregion/03cuomos.html Professor Eimicke, commenting Andrew Cuomo's political staff and family ties, said “Mario (Cuomo) has the same wisdom as ever. Why wouldn’t you use it?” Mon, 03 May 2010 05:29:07 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/nyregion/03cuomos.html http://www.france24.com/en/20100421-france-24-debate-african-independence-ethnic-conflicts-part2 Ethnic Violence in Africa After 50 Years of Independence Professor Ousmane Kane participated in a debate on France 24: "50 Years of Independence - Ethnic Violence: Africa's Curse?" The discussion centered on ethnic conflicts in Africa since 1960, the year seventeen states became independent. (Video) Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:22:56 -0400 http://www.france24.com/en/20100421-france-24-debate-african-independence-ethnic-conflicts-part2 http://www.france24.com/en/20100421-france-24-debate-african-independence-ethnic-conflicts Professor Ousmane Kane participated in a debate on France 24: "50 Years of Independence - Ethnic Violence: Africa's Curse?" The discussion centered on ethnic conflicts in Africa since 1960, the year seventeen states became independent. (Video) Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:22:20 -0400 http://www.france24.com/en/20100421-france-24-debate-african-independence-ethnic-conflicts http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_ariana_huffington_1044.html Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, addresses the role of the media in covering the ongoing financial crisis. Huffington opened a conference featuring top journalists, scholars and activists, sponsored by SIPA’s International Media, Advocacy and Communications specialization and the Roosevelt Institute. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:21:33 -0400 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_ariana_huffington_1044.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_helen_clark_1040.html SIPA’s United Nations Studies Program hosted Helen Clark, the first woman administrator of the United Nations Development Program and former Prime Minister of New Zealand. The discussion was moderated by UNSP director Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:22:57 -0400 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_helen_clark_1040.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/business/13sorkin.html Professor Stiglitz, commenting on whether the baiilouts are working, said he still isn’t willing to declare victory, and he probably never will. “I think this is disingenuous and a real attempt to distract people. ... Did we get back anything commensurate with the risk? Clearly the answer is no." sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:52:16 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/business/13sorkin.html http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-taiwan/091103/silicon-sweatshops-globalpost-investigation “Silicon Sweatshops,” an investigative series for GlobalPost co-authored by Jonathan Adams (MIA '03), won a Best in Business Journalism award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. The report exposed working conditions at factories in China that build components for American companies. The series was co-reported by Kathleen McLaughlin. Adams reports on Taiwan for GlobalPost, and has covered China and Taiwan since 2002. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:46:44 -0400 6FDC150C-3FC3-4C28-BBC3-BADAACE72266 http://www2.mof.go.th/picture_news_detail.php?id=2929 Kurkrit Chaisirikul (MPA '08) has been awarded the Thailand Ministry of Finance Innovation Award. Chaisirikul serves as Customs Technical Office with the Royal Thai Customs. He was recognized for his work in developing a comprehensive system of parallel risk management via a Web-based application called “e-Risk.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:31:51 -0400 http://www2.mof.go.th/picture_news_detail.php?id=2929 http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10957 Dean Coatsworth participated in a discussion on Latin America with Greg Grandin, Associate Professor of Latin American history at New York University, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Former Vice President of Costa Rica and Michael Shifter, Incoming President of Inter-American Dialogue. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:51:13 -0400 http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10957 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/ISCTEenergystudents.html Beginning in 2011, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) will host each fall semester nearly two dozen students from Portugal’s Instituto Universitário de Lisboa’s Business School (ISCTE). The students, from ISCTE Business School’s MBA program in energy systems, will enroll in energy-related courses at SIPA, such as those offered through the school’s Energy and Environment concentration in collaboration with SIPA’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:57:14 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/ISCTEenergystudents.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/TroyEggersAppointment.html Troy Eggers has been appointed Senior Associate Dean at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Eggers comes to SIPA from the Columbia Business School, where he served as Associate Dean for Executive Education. In his role as Senior Associate Dean, Eggers is the senior administrative officer at SIPA, serving as Chief of Staff to the Dean and managing day-to-day operations. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:43:25 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/TroyEggersAppointment.html http://ce.columbia.edu/Summer-Sessions/Certificate-Programs?utm_source=Spectator-APR01&utm_medium=SIPA-Print-5x10BW&utm_campaign=Spring-2010-PBS-AD Beginning this summer, SIPA and Columbia’s School of Continuing Education (SCE) will offer courses and certificates in two concentrations, Critical Issues in International Relations and United Nations Studies. Courses can be taken independently upon admission to SCE or as part of a four-course certificate program. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:44:47 -0400 http://ce.columbia.edu/Summer-Sessions/Certificate-Programs?utm_source=Spectator-APR01&utm_medium=SIPA-Print-5x10BW&utm_campaign=Spring-2010-PBS-AD http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/04/04/2010-04-04_new_york_aint_seen_nothing_yet_future_will_bring_flooding_hurricanes_and_violent.html Professor Cohen writes “Weather is not climate, and we're not feeling the direct results of climate change in these recent weather phenomena. But the truth is that scientists, at least those of us here at Columbia’s Earth Institute, predict more such events and with greater frequency as the planet continues to heat up.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:21:10 -0400 http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/04/04/2010-04-04_new_york_aint_seen_nothing_yet_future_will_bring_flooding_hurricanes_and_violent.html http://hrcolumbia.org/news/institute The former Center for the Study of Human Rights is now an institute, a change approved by the Trustees of Columbia University. The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) will be able “to play a better role in serving its different constituencies, and in particular to deepen the offering of human rights courses, initiate and coordinate research and bridge the academic work with the advocacy community,” said Professor Elazar Barkan, ISHR Director. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:36:41 -0400 http://hrcolumbia.org/news/institute http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0401/Deterring-nuclear-weapons-China-ready-to-talk-new-Iran-sanctions Professor Doyle, commenting on China’s indication it will consider a new UN resolution on Iran sanctions, said “The question now is, what does China want for this?” Noting that President Hu Jintao will be in Washington later this month for President Obama’s nuclear security summit, he says, “the Chinese know that [the US-China visit] will be a much wider discussion than just Iran.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:19:35 -0400 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0401/Deterring-nuclear-weapons-China-ready-to-talk-new-Iran-sanctions http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=acx.3Fwf4kLQ Professor Civico, director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, says the rebels, whose ranks have thinned by half to about 8,000 since 2002, are seeking to draw attention to their 46-year-old insurgency after suffering crippling setbacks in 2008. “The FARC are looking to recover political space. They’re desperate.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:18:35 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=acx.3Fwf4kLQ http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr10/features0 Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti (MIA '95) is striving to reform urban culture in his home town. "All those years at Columbia, I had been trying to effect change in New York City. I suddenly realized it was needed in Los Angeles as well." sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr10/features0 http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/mar/24/connecting-climate-change-and-poverty/ Professor Sachs, commenting on the impact of cell phone technology, said "What I'm seeing in Africa ... in very poor and very remote areas, there is now wireless broadband available ... and this is changing the life of poor people in ways I wouldn't have imagined five years ago. Essentially, isolation is over." sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:16:13 -0400 21F13150-7EE3-405C-8F3A-380E432554E1 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/22/us/AP-US-Health-Care-Ugly-Discourse.html?_r=4&scp=33&sq=columbia%20university&st=cse Professor Cohen, commenting on the invective generated by the health care debate, said "This stuff is always out there. It's just that now, we can't get away from it. That's what's new. With the Web's insatiable appetite for conflict, everything becomes magnified, even if it's often an expression of a fringe minority." sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:13:44 -0400 EBF2932C-554F-4ED4-B701-22AB24A45249 http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/03/17/daniel-h-rosen-how-much-can-china-really-diversify-its-reserves/?KEYWORDS=columbia Adjunct professor Daniel Rosen write “The question of Beijing's ability to diversify its $2.4 trillion foreign exchange holdings is not only relevant for the market demand for Treasurys and alternative securities but also for assessing China's leverage over the U.S. This issue will be prominent over the coming weeks, as the U.S. decides whether to designate China a currency manipulator.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/03/17/daniel-h-rosen-how-much-can-china-really-diversify-its-reserves/?KEYWORDS=columbia http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2010-03-16-census-letters_N.htm Professor Prewitt says advance letters first went out in 2000, based on research conducted after the 1990 census. He says he has no doubt that the letter campaign boosted participation rates, calling it "a very good investment." sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2010-03-16-census-letters_N.htm http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/03/12/week-in-review-middle-east-peace-process/10063/ Adjunct professor James Rubin said “To have Vice-President Biden's trip, which was really designed to embrace the Israeli government and embrace Israel, marred this way is pretty unfortunate, and may cause some changes in Israeli politics. At least that's what they're hoping in Washington.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/03/12/week-in-review-middle-east-peace-process/10063/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124623729 Professor Marable said “It's not that America is suddenly post-racial. But there's just no such thing as a black president. Obama's base is multiracial and multiclass and a reflection of the reality of America.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124623729 http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-03-10-economists-financial-reform_N.htm Professor Stiglitz said “So far, the administration and the congressional responses are both inadequate. Most (derivative deals) are being written by the big banks. That means underwritten by the U.S. taxpayer.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0400 http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-03-10-economists-financial-reform_N.htm http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_pop_panel_1033.html Racial identification on the U.S. census goes back to the nation’s roots. Despite many changes over time, the census uses the same basic racial classification scheme introduced in the 18th century. The civil rights revolution of the 1960s raised the stakes for racial classification, as the data are increasingly used to draw congressional districts and allocate government resources.Professor Kenneth Prewitt, director of the 2000 census, led off a panel discussion on the census and racial and ethnic categories Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:07:42 -0400 671722F0-1F9C-43D5-ABA8-30143C6D4FB5 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_alvaro_urquhart_1031.html Sir Brian Urquhart, former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, addresses his experiences in peacekeeping and the evolution of the UN in discussion with Alvaro de Soto. The discussion is part of the Center for International Conflict Resolution’s "Conversations with Alvaro de Soto" series. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:23:17 -0400 519AB4B2-B31A-4B4F-B71D-A35D16614495 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/03/08/midday1/ The Iraqi Election Professor Austin Long analyzes the March 7 election in Iraq and what it means for security in the region. Commenting on the lower turnout, Professor Long said "I think a lot of Iraqis are frustrated with democracy ... They just feel like the current state of Iraqi democracy is not achieving what they want." Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:56:30 -0500 32E6B5BD-C36D-4CD7-87F0-35B24A4AB0EF http://themorningsidepost.com/policy-making-digital-age/video/ The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student-run blog, hosted a conference examining the intersections of digital technology and international affairs. The conference included panel discussions on information communication technology and development, open governance, and how policy schools can be involved in the process. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:59:02 -0400 5F919849-2600-411F-BC75-C423BB7969E5 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/03/02/mobilizing-technology-to-help-chilean-earthquake-victims/9913/ A group of SIPA students are taking the lead in a project to guide relief efforts in Chile. They are coordinating a crisis mapping Web site for Ushahidi, which gathers information submitted via email, text message and social media. “The idea behind the site is to provide as much information as possible to organizations in the field and to people in Chile,” said Anahi Ayala Iacucci (MIA '10) “We put available information onto a map that anyone can access.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/03/02/mobilizing-technology-to-help-chilean-earthquake-victims/9913/ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/2010ProgressiveSustainabilityAward.html A student team from SIPA's International Energy Management and Policy Program received this year's Leous/Parry Award for Progressive Sustainability for its work on increasing access to energy in rural Ghana. The award was created by two SIPA alumni, J.P. Leous and Neal Parry (MPA '06) to support interdisciplinary approaches to protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:59:24 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/2010ProgressiveSustainabilityAward.html http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10885 Professor Stiglitz said “We've been brought back from the brink, but we're not out of the woods.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10885 http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126714429930251933.html Professor Stiglitz says “The current scenario is one where the economy is weak in terms of employment; foreclosures are continuing apace, and are expected to be higher this year than last; and bank failures are continuing and are also expected to be higher this year than last. Growth is not strong enough to create enough jobs for the new entrants to the labor force, and not enough to lead to a marked reduction in unemployment.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126714429930251933.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/AldoCivico-ColombiaCommissionforHistoricalMemory.html Professor Aldo Civico, director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, has been named to Colombia's Commission for Historical Memory. The Commission comprises scholars who are working together to construct an inclusive memory of the armed conflict in Colombia. The goal is to build a foundation for the understanding and transformation of the conflict, while respecting diversity and giving voice to the various armed actors and victims. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/AldoCivico-ColombiaCommissionforHistoricalMemory.html http://www.rdmag.com/News/FeedsAP/2010/03/energy-coalition-for-fair-transmission-policy-launched/ Adjunct professor Sue Sheridan said “The geographic breadth of these (electric) companies illustrates the nationwide significance of the debate on transmission policy, and each company's recognition of its local consumers' need to keep energy costs as low as possible.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.rdmag.com/News/FeedsAP/2010/03/energy-coalition-for-fair-transmission-policy-launched/ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=apizptEHZnKk Professor Civico, director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, says “(Juan Manuel) Santos may be vulnerable to criticism over some of the Uribe government's perceived problems. (Opposition Senator Gustavo) Petro may focus on accusations that the government collaborated with paramilitary groups in its effort to destroy the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country's biggest guerrilla group.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=apizptEHZnKk http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/26/census.redistricting/ Discussing the role of the census in determining federal fund allocation and boundaries of electoral, Professor Prewitt said “There is no representative democracy without it. It's the scientific, nonpartisan, apolitical starting point of what eventually becomes a quite partisan, political process.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:50:00 GMT http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/26/census.redistricting/ http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1968126,00.html#ixzz0h9ZKl34Q Professor Abbas said “The one consensus among experts on this matter is that Rigi was not his own man. He must have been getting aid from somewhere,” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1968126,00.html#ixzz0h9ZKl34Q http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=7292087 Professor Stiglitz says “Every time you go in the store and even use a debit card, not a credit card, but a debit card, your merchant gets charged. And of course, the merchant has to pass on the cost to you. In the case of grocery stores where the margins are very thin, the credit cards are taking a substantial portion of their profits; they're up in arms over this.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=7292087 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61I17720100219 Professor Fuchs “called the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts a wake-up call that proved that weak candidates lost elections. As a result, many Democrats were now unwilling to stick with Paterson and risk losing the governorship in November. 'People are not willing to stand by and support him (Paterson) if it's going to bring them down' she said.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61I17720100219 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/documents/WDSJFlyer-WorldDayofSocialJustice2-19-10-small.pdf SIPA's International Finance and Economic Policy Program co-hosts a presentation entitled “The Global Jobs Crisis: Assessing the Pace and Quality of Growth.” Friday, February 19 at 11:30 a.m. IAB, Room 404 sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/documents/WDSJFlyer-WorldDayofSocialJustice2-19-10-small.pdf http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=video&T=Stiglitz%20Interview%20on%20Stimulus,%20Jobs,%20Banks%20&clipSRC=mms%3A//media2.bloomberg.com/cache/v_V6a3QyOu5s.asf Professor Stiglitz talks about the need for additional U.S. stimulus targeting job creation. Stiglitz also discusses the role U.S. banks had in the global financial crisis, Wall Street compensation and Greece's debt problems. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=video&T=Stiglitz%20Interview%20on%20Stimulus,%20Jobs,%20Banks%20&clipSRC=mms%3A//media2.bloomberg.com/cache/v_V6a3QyOu5s.asf http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/02/16/mexican-economy-hard-hit-by-drop-in-us-remittances/9714/ Professor de la Garza said “(Remittances) reduce familial costs, thereby reducing poverty. What it does is enable the state to effectively put out less money for the poor, because the poor are making money off of remittances.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/02/16/mexican-economy-hard-hit-by-drop-in-us-remittances/9714/ http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10868 Professor Abbas said “I think this is an arranged surrender. This is not an arrest. … So I think this is part of the larger peace process – negotiations going on with the Taliban.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10868 http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/02/12/amanpour.intv.iran.revolution.cnn?iref=allsearch In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Professor Gary Sick said “As the regime has cracked down harder and harder, they're getting better at it. Repression does work. And they are now much more organized in terms of keeping things quiet and keeping the opposition down than they were before.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/02/12/amanpour.intv.iran.revolution.cnn?iref=allsearch http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_non-proliferation_araud_1019.html French Ambassador to the United Nations Gérard Araud addresses the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and the Iranian crisis, followed by a discussion moderated by Columbia Professor Richard Bulliet. Presented by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program, the School of International and Public Affairs, and SIPA’s UN Studies Program. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:26:17 -0400 022C59C1-5C0B-4AEE-B21E-7432FA8692A1 http://www.brookings.edu/events/2010/0202_school_choice.aspx Professor Bentley Macleod participated in a task force at the Brookings Institution to develop proposals on expanding school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality. Professor Macleod and the group released their report on February 2, the first of a series on rethinking the federal role in education. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:30:37 -0500 http://www.brookings.edu/events/2010/0202_school_choice.aspx http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/2010PublicPolicyCaseCompetition.html How would you build a security agency to protect America's energy resources? Or push an important bill through a fractious Albanian parliament? Students faced these questions in SIPA's annual Public Policy Case Competition. The contest brings together students and practitioners to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/2010PublicPolicyCaseCompetition.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703338504575041341165703262.html Professor Stiglitz says “I would give a strong cautionary note against deficit fetishism. If you have less success [stimulating the economy through other means], then I start getting worried.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703338504575041341165703262.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_mexico_1015_english.html SIPA and the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) co-host a discussion about Mexico's future with four of Mexico's most visible public intellectuals and opinion shapers. It centers on proposals offered in a new book, Un Futuro Para Mexico, by Jorge Castaneda and Hector Aguilar Camin, who argue that Mexico needs a consensus on key issues before the 2012 presidential elections. With panelists Jorge G. Castaneda, Former Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Hector Aguilar Camin, Director of Revista Nexos, Jesus Reyes-Heroles, former Mexican ambassador to the U.S., and Santiago Levy, Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_mexico_1015_english.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-02-02-haiti-future_N.htm Professor Sachs says “Haiti's rebuilding should be orchestrated by a single powerful entity.” He's calling for a $3 billion reconstruction fund, including $1 billion from the USA, run through a multinational agency with a governing board including Haitians. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-02-02-haiti-future_N.htm http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123251630 Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, an advisor to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, has estimated that rebuilding Haiti will cost at least $10 billion over the next 10 years. On NPR's TALK OF THE NATION, he said to that figure, you have to add in the cost of emergency aid and economic development for Haiti. "We're looking at something on the order, I believe, of about $3 billion per year for the next few years, of which the U.S. part might be $1 billion of that," states Sachs. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123251630 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204575040063950909540.html?mod=WSJ_HomeAndGarden_sections_BuyingAndSelling Professor Sachs says “This is a very big disappointment. It's pretty much a standstill with maybe tiny changes here and there.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204575040063950909540.html?mod=WSJ_HomeAndGarden_sections_BuyingAndSelling http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_dinkins_13th_forum/sipa_dinkins_1014_panel_two.html Obama's Economic Recovery Agenda and the Metro Region: The View from New York City David Jones, CEO and President, Community Service Society of New York, Kathryn Wylde, The Partnership for New York City, and Robert Lieber, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, NYC Moderator: Professor Ester Fuchs, Director of SIPA's Urban and Social Policy Concentration sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_dinkins_13th_forum/sipa_dinkins_1014_panel_two.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_dinkins_13th_forum/sipa_dinkins_1014_panel_one.html Obama's Economic Recovery Agenda and the Metro Region: The View from Philadelphia, Nassau County, and Trenton Michael Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia, PA, Douglas Palmer, Mayor of Trenton, NJ, and Thomas Suozzi, former County Executive, Nassau County, NY Moderator: Professor Dorian Warren sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_dinkins_13th_forum/sipa_dinkins_1014_panel_one.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_dinkins_13th_forum/sipa_dinkins_1014_welcome.html Introduction and Keynote Address: Congressman Charles B. Rangel (NY 15th District sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_dinkins_13th_forum/sipa_dinkins_1014_welcome.html http://www.cicr-columbia.org/?p=1540 Columbia's Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) is co-hosting an all-day symposium on focusing on the environment, natural resources and eco-tourism as tools for peace building, state building and sustainable development in the Balkans. Friday, January 29. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cicr-columbia.org/?p=1540 http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/112797/ny1-online--state-of-the-union-analysis-1-27-10 Professor Warren analyzed President Obama's State of the Union address, saying "He kept his cool. He struck the right theme throughout the speech. He took responsibility for some of the mistakes the administration made the first year. ... He gave what amounts to a really grown-up speech." sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/112797/ny1-online--state-of-the-union-analysis-1-27-10 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31fob-q4-t.html?scp=2&sq=stiglitz&st=cse Professor Stiglitz says “…back in the spring of 2008, people like Bernanke were saying we're over the worst. Regulators didn't want to admit that they had made really bad regulatory decisions. They didn't want to admit that they had allowed a housing bubble to grow.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31fob-q4-t.html?scp=2&sq=stiglitz&st=cse http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_freedom_expression_1012.html A discussion hosted by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program and SIPA, in collaboration with the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism. Moderated by David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker. Featuring Peter Awn, Director of Columbia's Middle East Institute, University Professor Kent Greenawalt, Columbia Law School, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Author and Philosopher, and Philippe Schmidt, Chairman of INACH and Vice-President of LICRA sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_freedom_expression_1012.html http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/01/seven_questions_jeffrey_sachs?source=hptextfeature Professor Sachs says “What I'd like is for US and other donor money to be put into a multi-donor trust fund (MDTF). My specific recommendation is that the MDTF should be located at the Inter-American Development bank. … In essence the IADB is a development-finance institution that works well, has a long-term commitment to Haiti, has a lot of expertise, and is competent in handling money and organising projects with the proper monitoring, auditing and evaluation.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/01/seven_questions_jeffrey_sachs?source=hptextfeature http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_haiti_earthquake_1011.html SIPA's United Nations Studies Program (UNSP) hosted a panel discussion and fundraiser, reflecting on the earthquake in Haiti and discussing a way forward for the devastated nation. Moderated by Elisabeth Lindenmayer, director of the UNSP, who was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during the earthquake. [January 25, 2010] sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_haiti_earthquake_1011.html http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/01/25/obama-and-the-world-afghanistan-and-pakistan/9405/ Professor Abbas said “Some of the elements which can become part of a successful story and a successful policy are being put in place.” ed. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/01/25/obama-and-the-world-afghanistan-and-pakistan/9405/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122783133 Jeffrey Sachs states that Haiti has been the victim of U.S. political battles, including the Clinton administration's decision in the 1990s to impose sanctions to restore former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power and the Bush administration's squeezing the economy to push Aristide back out of power again a decade later. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122783133 http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=video&T=Economist%20Joseph%20Stiglitz%20Interview%20Excerpt%20&clipSRC=mms%3A//media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vRp1Gaf558Fc.asf Professor Stiglitz says the economy could dip back into recession unless the banks ease the terms of mortgages. Unless there is a stimulus "unemployment will rise in 2010, not decline." sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=video&T=Economist%20Joseph%20Stiglitz%20Interview%20Excerpt%20&clipSRC=mms%3A//media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vRp1Gaf558Fc.asf http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/01/20/second-stmulus-needed-to-create-jobs-save-homes-under-water/ Professor Stiglitz says the economy could dip back into recession unless the banks ease the terms of mortgages. Unless there is a stimulus "unemployment will rise in 2010, not decline." sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/01/20/second-stmulus-needed-to-create-jobs-save-homes-under-water/ http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/19/haiti.earthquake.reconstruction/index.html?iref=allsearch Professor Mutter said "...poor construction left unknown thousands of people trapped in buildings that pancaked when the earth moved last week." Stricter building codes and honest enforcement are necessary, but "people will never be able to build strong, expensive structures if they don't have a strong economy." sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/19/haiti.earthquake.reconstruction/index.html?iref=allsearch http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/17/think_different_cia/ Professor Jervis writes " The problems with our intelligence system aren't primarily problems with information. They are problems with how we think." sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/17/think_different_cia/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011502457.html Professor Sachs writes "The (Haitian) government's inability to cope has been obvious, but those of us who have been around Haiti for many years also know about the lofty international promises that follow each disaster -- and how ineffectual the response has been each time." sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011502457.html http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/01/15/2010011501256.html?srchCol=news&srchUrl=news1 Professor Robb was featured in Chosun, Korea's largest newspaper, discussing the causes of the global financial crisis and possible solutions. (In Korean) sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/01/15/2010011501256.html?srchCol=news&srchUrl=news1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/haiti-is-a-critical-test_b_421864.html Writing at the Huffington Post, Professor Steven Cohen says "The role of the United States in the world and in this hemisphere is being redefined. What better way to demonstrate American ideals, values, confidence and capacity than a rapid and well-managed relief effort?" Professor Cohen is Executive Director of Columbia's Earth Institute and Director of SIPA's MPA program in Environment Science and Policy. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/haiti-is-a-critical-test_b_421864.html http://www.nycp.org/pressReleases/2010/pr_011110_fuchs%20fellowship.html The Partnership for New York City has appointed Professor Ester Fuchs as a Senior Policy Fellow. She will serve during her spring 2010 sabbatical from SIPA. Before joining SIPA, Professor Fuchs served as Special Advisor for Governance and Strategic Planning to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nycp.org/pressReleases/2010/pr_011110_fuchs%20fellowship.html http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/01/08/week-in-review-yemen/9173/ Professor Rubin said "Yemen is a difficult challenge for a number of reasons. I think people might imagine it as a combination of some of the failed state qualities of Afghanistan and the difficult acceptance Saudi Arabia went through before it accepted it was in a war with al-Qaeda." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2010/01/08/week-in-review-yemen/9173/ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/IranAftertheElection.html Leading Iranian scholars and analysts discuss the impact of the recent elections, Iran's relationship with the international community and the theocratic foundations of the Islamic Republic. The conference was co-sponsored by SIPA and the Middle East Institute. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/IranAftertheElection.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/opinion/l05brooks.html Professor Stuart Gottlieb writes in a letter to the editor “… after years of high-profile intelligence reforms and reorganizations, and tens of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on new counterterrorism and homeland security initiatives, the public has a right to be concerned that the many glaring dots in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspected would-be Christmas Day bomber, were not connected.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/opinion/l05brooks.html http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/03/all_the_presidents_leaks?page=0,0 Professor Sick writes “Mr. President, you have taken what appeared to be a losing hand and, with a few well-placed leaks, transformed it into a victory over Iran. You have converted a lose-lose proposition of crippling sanctions vs. appeasement into an Iranian nuclear collapse. The imminent threat of Iran has become an indefinite delay of its breakout capability.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/03/all_the_presidents_leaks?page=0,0 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a69Q211j7yV8 Professor Stiglitz says the financial crisis exposed “major flaws” in prevailing ideas, including the ideas that economic participants behave rationally and that financial markets are competitive and efficient. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a69Q211j7yV8 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#34870695 Alumna Michele Wucker (MIA '93), director of the World Policy Institute, appeared on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" to discuss the Haiti earthquake and her recent book Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#34870695 http://news.columbia.edu/record/1891 "In Port-au-Prince, the car immediately behind the SIPA group was crushed by a pillar, its occupants killed. The MINUSTAH building directly in front of them had collapsed." ... “The students were fearless. They instantly rushed out to see what they could do.”. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.columbia.edu/record/1891 http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=plenary_one_story Professor Guillermo Calvo addressed credit flow in the keynote address at the 11th Annual Global Development Conference in Prague, Czech Republic. He proposed that the 2008 financial crisis saw a bank run that connected the financial and real sectors by a sudden freeze in credit.d. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=plenary_one_story http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/ha2278-fac.html Hassan Abbas has been appointed the 2010 Quaid-i-Azam Professor, associated with the South Asia Institute. Professor Abbas teaches courses focusing on politics, religion and security in South Asia. He previously served in the administrations of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/ha2278-fac.html http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/499507 SIPA Professor David Stark's paper “Social Times of Network Spaces" won the 2009 W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association.The paper, co-authored with Balazs Vedres, was published in the American Journal of Sociology. [2010] sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/499507 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/documents/BalkansEventFinal.pdf The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) in partnership with the Italian Ministry for Environment Land and Sea co-host a two-day symposium, exploring issues related to sustainable development, environmental policy-making and peace building in the Balkans. January 28 – 29, 2010 sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/documents/BalkansEventFinal.pdf http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703510304574625671839067950.html Adjunct professor Dan Rosen writes “ … 2010 could be an even tougher economic year for China. To climb out of the global contraction, Beijing has engineered a property bubble characterized by oversupply in commercial real estate and unsustainable price gains for residential property. The consequences of this will bite in the new year.' sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703510304574625671839067950.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/1223/After-Copenhagen-five-solutions-to-help-melt-the-global-trust-problem Adjunct professor Seth Freeman writes “The US wants reassurance, China wants autonomy and respect. These concerns aren't incompatible. The following five solutions can help melt the lack of trust problem.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/1223/After-Copenhagen-five-solutions-to-help-melt-the-global-trust-problem http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/12/22/toll-from-mexican-drug-violence-continues-to-climb/8985/ Professor de la Garza said "These organizations take on many forms. They split off. There's competition for new leadership. As long as there's a market, which is fundamentally a U.S. market, there's a demand ... there's a lot of money. On one level, (the Mexican government has) made advances. Is it winning? I don't think so. Not yet.". sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/12/22/toll-from-mexican-drug-violence-continues-to-climb/8985/ http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/12/local/la-me-green-mayor12-2009dec12 Professor Cohen said "Local government is reality-based. It's right in people's faces. It actually affects what people do day to day." sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/12/local/la-me-green-mayor12-2009dec12 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/HumanRightsAdvocates-2009.html Every fall semester, respected human rights leaders from around the world make New York City and Columbia University their home, immersing themselves in policy debates, networking, and advanced training.Their goal is to build on their skills, knowledge and contacts, and return home to resume the fight for human rights. The Human Rights Advocacy Program is a four-month capacity building program, developed and run by Columbia's Center for the Study of Human Rights sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/HumanRightsAdvocates-2009.html http://www.thetakeaway.org/people/steve-cohen/ Professor Cohen said “You have to give him credit for changing the dialogue and the language that is coming out of the United States.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thetakeaway.org/people/steve-cohen/ http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/110255/ny1-online--debate-on-green-buildings-bill-on--road-to-city-hall-l Professor Steven Cohen debates New York City's new green buildings plan with Rohit Aggarwala, director of the Mayor's Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability. sipaevents@columbia.eud Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/110255/ny1-online--debate-on-green-buildings-bill-on--road-to-city-hall-l http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/12/08/copenhagen-climate-change-conference-whats-at-stake/8781/ Professor Barrett said “If success means we have to meet target timetables to meet target emissions, I'm not sure that is success. … Success is defined as if an agreement is reached it changes behavior. It has got to change what countries do and how they operate in regards to climate change.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/12/08/copenhagen-climate-change-conference-whats-at-stake/8781/ http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/12/07/daniel-rosen-bond-market-wont-keep-us-from-raising-pressure-on-china/ Dan Rosen, adjunct professor at SIPA, writes “In his Congressional re-confirmation hearings on December 3, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that low U.S. interest rates aren't fueling asset bubbles in the U.S., and if they are doing so in China, that's not his problem.”d. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/12/07/daniel-rosen-bond-market-wont-keep-us-from-raising-pressure-on-china/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/12/gradual-change-more-likely-than-revolution-experts-say.html "Everyone wants to know what's next for Iran. Since the June 2009 election, and subsequent protests, the mainstream media has asked, 'Is this the beginning of another Iranian Revolution?' Prominent Iranian academics gathered Saturday at Columbia University to say, in essence, don't hold your breath. As Columbia Professor Hamid Dabashi has said on repeated occasions, 'This is not another revolution, this is a civil rights movement.'" sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/12/gradual-change-more-likely-than-revolution-experts-say.html http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/818078/-/wu667qz/-/index.html A paper authored by Professor Lindenmayer and Josie Lianna Kaye, “A Choice for Peace? The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya,” was profiled in Kenya's leading newspaper. The paper goes behind the scenes of the peace process in early 2008, led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.dited. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/818078/-/wu667qz/-/index.html http://www.newsweek.com/id/225784/page/1 Professor Rubin writes "...by putting a premium on listening, not lecturing, and by injecting a corrective dose of pragmatism, an impression has been left that America's historic support for the spread of democratic values has diminished." sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.newsweek.com/id/225784/page/1 http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/dubai-sneezed-who-catches-a-cold/ Professor Calvo said ““If you catch investors that are leveraged by surprise when something like this happens, then they will have to find liquidity somewhere, and they'll start liquidating other assets. … It's a domino effect.”edited. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/dubai-sneezed-who-catches-a-cold/ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1130/p06s16-wome.html Professor Sick commented on Iran's plans for ten new nuclear sites, saying “At a minimum, this is a project that would require Iran to mobilize all of its resources in a national effort over many years. In my view, this is a classic Ahmadinejad blustery response to the recent IAEA resolution [and is] the kind of ante-raising that one might expect in a negotiating game of 'chicken.'” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1130/p06s16-wome.html SIPA, Columbia University http://www.pbs.org/nbr/info/local-player.html?s=nbre07s35e0qcd0 Adjunct Professor Dan Rosen said “Ten years ago, China was essentially insignificant. For the most part, it was something that might happen tomorrow. So, tomorrow has arrived. And every industry, everywhere on the planet, is being profoundly impacted by what's happening in the Chinese economy.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:42:25 -0500 http://www.pbs.org/nbr/info/local-player.html?s=nbre07s35e0qcd0 http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/world-poverty-map-1209 Professor Sachs … “attributes the relative success of nations to geography and weather: In the poorest parts of the world, he argues, nutrient-starved tropical soil makes agriculture a challenge, and tropical climates foment disease, particularly malaria. “ sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:41:15 -0500 http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/world-poverty-map-1209 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120488578 Professor Sick said “Iran is deliberately slowing down and not enriching as fast as it could to send a political signal, which, if its true, it seems to be completely missed on this side of the Atlantic.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:39:10 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120488578 http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1106/p06s02-woeu.html Professor Barrett commented on the European Union agreement: "This could lead to the unfortunate situation where Europe blames the US for failure to act. It's unhelpful for countries to point to one another and say this country is doing well and this one is not." sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:38:06 -0500 http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1106/p06s02-woeu.html http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?brand=sipa&id=37250&vt=detail&context=standalone SIPA hosts William D. Eggers, co-author with John O'Leary of If We Can Put a Man on the Moon... Getting Big Things Done in Government. Eggers is Global Research Director for Deloitte's public-sector practice and Executive Director of its Public Leadership Institute. Wednesday, December 2 at 6:30 p.m sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:33:21 -0500 http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?brand=sipa&id=37250&vt=detail&context=standalone http://www.accionsocial.gov.co/contenido/contenido.aspx?conID=3968&catID=127 Diego Andres Molano Aponte (MPA '00) was appointed High Commissioner and Director of the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation (ACCION SOCIAL) in Colombia. Molano Aponte was previously the Coordinator of MIDAS, a USAID program. Molano Aponte is a recipient of SIPA's Harvey Picker Prize for Public Service. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:58:15 -0500 http://www.accionsocial.gov.co/contenido/contenido.aspx?conID=3968&catID=127 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/CopenhagenSummitResources.html Beginning December 7, representatives from nearly 200 nations will convene in Copenhagen, Denmark to consider measures to address climate change. In advance of this United Nations summit, SIPA offers a variety of resources, including lectures and discussions available on video, and faculty and student research and publications. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:23:55 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/CopenhagenSummitResources.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1125/p06s01-woam.html Professor Sick said "He loves the spotlight, and he loves the limelight. Iran is in no position to build a strategic beachhead in Latin America that would somehow threaten the US, certainly not in the next four years," when Ahmadinejad's term is over. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:40:39 -0500 http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1125/p06s01-woam.html http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/11/05/daily-life-goes-on-in-war-torn-pakistan/8203/ Professor Shafqat addresses everyday life in Lahore, Pakistan, saying “As a consequence of these recent bombings in the month of October, there is certainly a disturbance in the social life and also day-to-day life. But I would not say they are living in a state of perpetual fear and insecurity.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:36:14 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/11/05/daily-life-goes-on-in-war-torn-pakistan/8203/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05iht-edrubin.html Professor Rubin writes, “Having fulfilled its promise to restore respect and support from America’s allies, the Obama administration should now be reaping the benefits of Western unity as it faces international crises like Afghanistan and Iran. But the unfortunate truth is that where Western unity is sufficient, it is not real. And where it is real, it is not sufficient.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:34:36 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05iht-edrubin.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/nov/02/obama-europe-relations Professor Sestanovich said, “For decades after the second world war, the great achievement of U.S. foreign policy was to channel and sometimes ignore European preferences while patiently calming the resentments that followed.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:33:42 -0500 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/nov/02/obama-europe-relations http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=3778 Professor Calvo said, “Several empirical studies show that taxes on capital inflows have little effect on total flows and, therefore, are unlikely to succeed in slowing down the appreciation of Brazil's currency.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:33:16 -0500 http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=3778 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1GMxUFBOhrY&pos=5 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says the world’s biggest economy is suffering because of the U.S. government’s failure to nationalize banks during the financial crisis. “If we had done the right thing, we would be able to have more influence over the banks. They would be lending and the economy would be stronger.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:32:31 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1GMxUFBOhrY&pos=5 http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/guest/article_a497cfe6-dbb6-539a-9344-a80ef0c30f56.html Professor Sachs writes “There are several reasons for U.S. inaction—including ideology and scientific ignorance—but a lot comes down to one word: coal. No fewer than 25 states produce coal, which not only generates income, jobs, and tax revenue, but also provides a disproportionately large share of their energy.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:32:06 -0500 http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/guest/article_a497cfe6-dbb6-539a-9344-a80ef0c30f56.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/nyregion/01ads.html?em Professor Cohen commented on Michael Bloomberg’s last-minute ad campaign. He said, “It’s unfortunate that it’s sunk to this level. It didn’t have to.” He called the last-minute advertising blitz “intensely nasty.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:31:28 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/nyregion/01ads.html?em http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/10/27/election-2009-economic-woes-challenge-incumbent-mayors/ Professor Fuchs said, “The economic crisis and a Republican incumbent would speak to an advantage for a Democratic challenger.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:56 -0500 http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/10/27/election-2009-economic-woes-challenge-incumbent-mayors/ http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65627 Professor Betts said, “It’s a hard sell when you’re talking to the Iranians or North Koreans or Chinese or others about why they shouldn’t be developing even a tiny number of primitive nuclear weapons. That’s going to be the biggest political problem for the civilian leadership in the Obama administration.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:16:18 -0500 http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65627 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SenateApprovesFGVDualDegree.html Columbia's University Senate has approved SIPA's establishment of a dual degree in São Paulo, Brazil with the Fundação Getulio Vargas Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV). Pending approval from the state of New York, SIPA and FGV plan to enroll the first class in the fall of 2010. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:15:51 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SenateApprovesFGVDualDegree.html http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2009/1125/p06s01-woam.html Post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand people, and left 300,000 people displaced. In January 2008, a panel chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan led the 41-day peace process, culminating in the Agreement on the Principles of Partnership of the Coalition Government. A paper by Elisabeth Lindenmayer, director of SIPA's UN Studies Program, and Josie Lianna Kaye, assistant director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, details the events which led up to this agreement. The paper was published by the International Peace Institute. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:15:16 -0500 http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2009/1125/p06s01-woam.html http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/de-blasios-task-make-public-advocate-mean-something Bill de Blasio (MIA '87) was elected New York City public advocate in the 2009 general election, with 77 percent of the vote. De Blasio previously served as a New York City councilman, worked in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and managed Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 campaign for the U.S. Senate. Read more from the New York Observer: sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:14:26 -0500 http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/de-blasios-task-make-public-advocate-mean-something http://www.emii.com/article.aspx?articleID=2267507 Joshua Levine (MIA '00, IF '99) was named one of Institutional Investor News' 2009 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds. Levine is a Senior Vice President with Permal Group Inc. The awards program "recognizes up-and-coming professionals from across the hedge fund community who have achieved a demonstrable level of success in their careers to-date, have shown a commitment to continued growth and contributions to the industry, and are poised to evolve into leaders in their fields." sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:08:34 -0500 http://www.emii.com/article.aspx?articleID=2267507 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_long.html SIPA's Alumni Relations Office presents an alumni policy forum with Professor Austin Long, "Complacency Kills: Observations from the Field on Counterinsurgency and the Future of Iraq." Professor Long teaches security policy at SIPA, focusing on national security, counterinsurgency, and political science. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_long.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1930512,00.html Professor Mitchell commented on President Saakashvili’s relationship with the United States, saying "In some ways, he's the last neocon standing." sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1930512,00.html http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/inflation/2009-10-19-deflation-economy-recovery_N.htm Professor Joseph Stiglitz commended on fears of deflation, saying he believes an extended bout of deflation is not only possible but likely. "I think we are on the verge (of persistent deflation).” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/inflation/2009-10-19-deflation-economy-recovery_N.htm http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=vroclcdab.0.0.fi7fl7cab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldleaders.columbia.edu%2Fevents%2Fconversation-martti-ahtisaari-former-president-finland-and-nobel-laureate&id=preview Martii Ahtisaari, former president of Finland and 2008 Nobel laureate, speaks about the craft of mediation and lessons to be drawn from his experiences working for peace. Mr. Ahtisaari’s visit was part of the Center for International Conflict Resolution’s “Conversations with Alvaro de Soto” series. Topics included Mr. Ahtisaari’s role in the Namibian peace process, the negotiation over the Aceh peace process in Indonesia, and his work mediating the Kosovo conflict. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=vroclcdab.0.0.fi7fl7cab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldleaders.columbia.edu%2Fevents%2Fconversation-martti-ahtisaari-former-president-finland-and-nobel-laureate&id=preview http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/opinion/l16afghan.html?_r=1&ref=opinion In a letter to the editor, Professor Gottlieb says, “The Obama administration’s desire to find a “middle way” between all-in and all-out in United States strategy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan is certainly understandable. But a policy based primarily on fighting Al Qaeda in Pakistan is fraught with peril.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/opinion/l16afghan.html?_r=1&ref=opinion http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/13conv.html?scp=1&sq=dreifus&st=cse Adjunct Professor Claudia Dreifus interviewed Carol W. Greider, one of three women to win a science Nobel Prize in 2009. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/13conv.html?scp=1&sq=dreifus&st=cse http://www.mirrorspectator.com/?p=2027 In a lecture at New York’s Columbia University on Tuesday, September 29, Armenia’s foreign minister Dr. Eduard Nalbandian stressed that questions concerning the Nagorno-Karabagh issue and the Armenian Genocide would not be put in jeopardy by the Armenia-Turkey protocols, due to be signed this month. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.mirrorspectator.com/?p=2027 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1929814,00.html Professor Almond comments on his paper that indicates people exposed to the H1N1 strain of influenza while in utero, were at a higher risk for a heart attack later in life. He says, "Why is it that only those born in 1919 showed the spike [in heart disease]? People who were born just before and after the flu should be affected as well." sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1929814,00.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/iannouncements08.html#fuchs Professor Ester Fuchs, director of SIPA’s Urban and Social Policy Concentration, was reappointed to the FDIC's Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion (ComE-IN). The committee provides the FDIC with advice and recommendations on expanding access to banking services by under-served populations. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said Professor Fuchs', "...insight and participation as a representative of the academic community has been invaluable.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/iannouncements08.html#fuchs http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/events/gabriel-silver-memorial-lecture-kofi-annan Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan discussed climate change during his delivery of the Gabriel Silver Lecture at Columbia’s World Leaders Forum. Annan is part of the first cohort of SIPA's Global Fellows Program, a distinguished group of global leaders, each of whom has played a significant role in designing, shaping or implementing solutions to critical global problems. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/events/gabriel-silver-memorial-lecture-kofi-annan http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SkillsForKids.html While still a student at SIPA, Prathima Rodrigues (MIA ’06) founded Skills for Kids, an initiative that teaches children in Mongolia, India and Kosovo about entrepreneurship. She says SIPA taught her, “…to work with and through others to create more impact than you can achieve on your own.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SkillsForKids.html http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14491729 Professor Barrett commented on the pace of climate change legislation through the U.S. Congress, calling the climate change dilemma the “biggest collective-action problem in human history.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14491729 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/science/earth/20nations.html?_r=1&scp=15&sq=Columbia&st=nyt Professor Sachs commented on the hurdles facing 100 world leaders due to gather in New York for a meeting on climate change. Professor Sachs said, “The instinct is a kind of nationalist response that can get it exactly backwards. We should be viewing this as global problem solving, not as global negotiation.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/science/earth/20nations.html?_r=1&scp=15&sq=Columbia&st=nyt http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198153897&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Professor Lindenmayer, speaking on the global financial crisis and anger toward the U.S. said, "The economic supremacy is still there, and I think it's still the strongest country in the world at this point, but the world is evolving. When the world evolves, particularly on the economic side, the center of power shifts." sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198153897&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/politics/18baker.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Columbia&st=nyt Commenting on a lawsuit asking the House of Representatives to be ordered to increase in size, in order to increase parity, Professor Prewitt says, “You may create a more equitable system that’s less governable, and I’m not sure the country comes out ahead.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/politics/18baker.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Columbia&st=nyt http://blogs.wsj.com/worldbusinessforum/2009/10/06/video-jeffrey-sachs-on-where-to-find-jobs-growth/ Professor Sachs says alternative energy and infrastructure, health care and high-skilled jobs. He also talks on where to find jobs and growth. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://blogs.wsj.com/worldbusinessforum/2009/10/06/video-jeffrey-sachs-on-where-to-find-jobs-growth/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/2009/10/091005_imf_stiglitz.shtml Professor Stiglitz talks about the greatly expanded role for the International Monetary Fund. “One of the things that is of great concern to many developing countries, is if the IMF is to become this source they can rely on when they need reserves, it needs to become automatic. They can't go through an examination process where sometimes they pass and sometimes they fail.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:33:00 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/2009/10/091005_imf_stiglitz.shtml http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/10/02/iran-promise-to-send-nuclear-fuel-abroad-a-major-concession/ Professor Sick, commenting on talks in Geneva about Iran's nuclear program, said “…by all accounts, instead of being a food fight leading to a total breakdown, the Geneva talks were serious, businesslike, and even cordial… this was a historic moment after thirty years of mutual recriminations and hyperbole.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/10/02/iran-promise-to-send-nuclear-fuel-abroad-a-major-concession/ http://www.ft.com/indepth/soros-lectures SIPA students participated in a global video-conference featuring businessman and philanthropist George Soros. The lecture was hosted by Central European University from Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Soros addressed the concept of open society, and SIPA students in New York City posed questions via video-conference. The series was sponsored by the Financial Times, where the lecture is available for viewing. [2009] sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ft.com/indepth/soros-lectures http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/documents/PanagariyainBergensTidende.pdf Professor Panagariya addresses the upcoming United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He says “The United States is not in the moral position to require mitigation from developing countries. It is hypocrisy.” (in Norwegian) sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/documents/PanagariyainBergensTidende.pdf http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/KlugeGift-SIPAChallenge.html John Kluge (CC '37), has agreed to allow Columbia University to designate $30 million of his $400 million bequest intention to build the financial aid endowment at SIPA. The school will use $25 million of Mr. Kluge's gift to establish the “SIPA Challenge” program. All future gifts of $100,000 or more for financial aid endowment at SIPA will be matched 1:1. The remaining $5 million of Mr. Kluge's gift will be used to create Kluge fellowships. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/KlugeGift-SIPAChallenge.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8284046.stm Professor Mitchell says a recent report on last year's conflict between Georgia and Russia might be good for Georgia, a country dependent on all the support it can get from the EU and one which has aspirations to join NATO. "This [report] lays out the extent of the problem the country faces.” He also says it will not "change the European thought [that] Georgia should be a member of NATO." But, he argues, the West still does not want it to happen quite yet. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:18:00 -0500 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8284046.stm http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bee5524-ad28-11de-9caf-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1 Professor Sachs writes “The G20's true significance is not in the passing of a baton from the G7/G8 but from the G1, the U.S. Even during the 33 years of the G7 economic forum, the U.S. called the important economic shots. Although the U.S. constitutes only about 20 per cent of the world economy, it has until recently been the indispensable leader, the key to nearly every significant regional military alliance and to global trade, finance and cutting-edge technology.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:21:00 -0500 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bee5524-ad28-11de-9caf-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/middleeast/30intel.html?_r=2&scp=5&sq=Columbia&st=nyt Professor Sick said “In 2002, it seemed utterly naïve to believe Saddam didn't have a program.” Now, the notion that Iran is not racing to build a bomb is similarly excluded from serious discussion, he said. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/middleeast/30intel.html?_r=2&scp=5&sq=Columbia&st=nyt http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/jamessurowiecki/2009/09/video-joseph-stiglitz.html In a Webcast, Professor Stiglitz discusses the financial crisis, the relationship between government and markets, and the future of capitalism around the world. “Currently in America a variety of special interests dictate many aspects of our economic policy, finance, health care and energy policy, and make it very difficult to shape the kinds of policies that would make us more efficient.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/jamessurowiecki/2009/09/video-joseph-stiglitz.html http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-944-rising-stars-40-under-40.html Ashley Cotton (EMPA '09) was named to City Hall magazine's "Rising Stars: 40 Under 40" list. Cotton is Vice-President for Government and Community Relations with the New York City Economic Development Corporation. She says she took the job on the advice of a Columbia professor “who told her it was the perfect place to work in the midst of an economic crisis.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-944-rising-stars-40-under-40.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/TopFiveFaculty20082009.html SIPA recognizes excellence in teaching through two annual awards: the Distinguished Teaching Award and, in a new award established this fall, the Top Five teachers from each semester the previous year. The awards are based on rankings on two questions in the quantitative portion of the SIPA course evaluation, students' overall evaluation of the course and their overall evaluation of the instructor. The responses are totaled and ranked, and the Top Five” teachers each semester receive the award sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/TopFiveFaculty20082009.html http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/events/thinking-big-new-york-and-london-heading-back-top In a program co-hosted by SIPA’s Global Mayors Forum, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and London Mayor Boris Johnson addressed a variety of issues facing their respective cities, including the future of the cities’ financial sectors, economic diversification, affordable housing and more. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/events/thinking-big-new-york-and-london-heading-back-top http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_nicholas_stern.html SIPA hosts Lord Nicholas Stern, British economist and former head of the UK's Government Economic Service. Lord Stern is the author of The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and Patel Professor of Economics and Government, as well as chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_nicholas_stern.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/61d86930-a259-11de-9caa-00144feabdc0.html Professor Bhagwati writes, “President Obama’s capitulation to protectionist action against imports of tires from China must be set in the context of his paralysis on free trade, punctuated by rare and tepid references to its advantages. He goes into the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh with a speech where trade is the missing prince in Hamlet, and with this act of protectionism under his belt. This is the abandonment of any pretence at leadership.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/61d86930-a259-11de-9caa-00144feabdc0.html http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?brand=sipa&id=35084&vt=detail&context=standalone SIPA's Human Rights Concentration presents a discussion with Douglas Alexander, UK Secretary of State for International Development, on the development and human rights responsibilities of business. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?brand=sipa&id=35084&vt=detail&context=standalone http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/business/global/15gdp.html?scp=4&sq=Columbia&st=nyt A panel co-chaired by Professor Stiglitz presented a report on the gross domestic product and how it is used to measure economic health. Professor Stiglitz said, “The main message is to get away from G.D.P. fetishism and to understand the limits to it. There are many aspects of our society that are not covered by G.D.P.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/business/global/15gdp.html?scp=4&sq=Columbia&st=nyt http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/09/14/withdrawal_without_winning Professor Jervis writes, "Most discussion about Afghanistan has concentrated on whether and how we can defeat the Taliban. Less attention has been paid to the probable consequences of a withdrawal without winning, an option toward which I incline." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/09/14/withdrawal_without_winning http://www.northjersey.com/news/national/Heckling_of_president_in_Congress_a_rare_event.html Professor Cohen said, "Our President is the head of government and also the head of state, the combination of the country and the government. We expect a certain amount of deference to the president, in the same way as we would for the queen. Here, we combine the two roles." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.northjersey.com/news/national/Heckling_of_president_in_Congress_a_rare_event.html http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-09-15-blankfein-goldman-sachs_N.htm?csp=34 USA Today, September 15, 2009 Professor Stiglitz said, “Goldman's activity is of negative social value. Its recent profits came from trading, which basically amounts to profiting from insider information at the expense of others.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-09-15-blankfein-goldman-sachs_N.htm?csp=34 http://www.MyWebSite.com/itehttp://www.accionsocial.gov.co/contenido/contenido.aspx?conID=3968&catID=127m.html Diego Andres Molano Aponte (MPA '00) was appointed High Commissioner and Director of the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation (ACCION SOCIAL) in Colombia. Molano Aponte was previously the Coordinator of MIDAS, a USAID program. Molano Aponte is a recipient of SIPA's Harvey Picker Prize for Public Service. (in Spanish) sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.MyWebSite.com/itehttp://www.accionsocial.gov.co/contenido/contenido.aspx?conID=3968&catID=127m.html http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_wv.aspx?episode=36628 Dean John Coatsworth, an expert on Latin America, discussed Colombian politics and term limits on Chicago Public Radio. The Colombian Congress is considering an amendment to allow President Alvaro Uribe to seek a third term. "The trend has been away from single terms to two term presidencies; and there are a number of countries, which have permitted extended terms beyond that. It's very difficult when a president is extremely popular ... to avoid the complex that comes with success. Presidents begin to think of themselves, especially in their second term, as indispensable to the safety and progress of the nation." sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:25:44 GMT http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_wv.aspx?episode=36628 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewFaculty2009-2010.html As SIPA begins the fall 2009 semester, the School’s new curriculum goes into effect. The revised curriculum adds managerial courses, in response to suggestions from alumni and employers about the skills that are critical for success. As a result, SIPA has appointed several new faculty members to teach an expanded set of offerings in public and nonprofit management, as well as financial management. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:25:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewFaculty2009-2010.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/Doyle-CharlesEMerriamAward.html Professor Michael Doyle is the 2009 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Charles E. Merriam Award. Professor Kenneth Prewitt received the award in 2005. The recognition of two senior members of SIPA's faculty within the last five years demonstrates the School's commitment to research and teaching that combines the best of scholarship and public service. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:25:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/Doyle-CharlesEMerriamAward.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aM64jWKxLn5Y Professor Trebat, Executive Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute's Center for Brazilian Studies, commented on a possible political run by Banco Central do Brasil President Henrique Meirelles. Professor Trebat said, “The only one other position that’s suitable to the stature he currently enjoys is the presidency, but that’s not in the cards. Brazil has stronger and younger candidates with more charisma.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:35:44 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aM64jWKxLn5Y http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8428618 Professor Marable said, “I think that there is among most African Americans, a real understanding of the differences between racial advocacy and leadership of national public policy...” on whether blacks had higher expectations from the president because of his race. “Barack Obama is the president of the entire United States...so consequently his focus has to be on all Americans, he's not a black leader. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:35:44 GMT http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8428618 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082802111.html Professor Stiglitz writes, “What really matters is not the size of the deficit but how we're spending our money. If we expand our debt in order to make high-return, productive investments, the economy can become stronger than if we slash expenditures.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:35:44 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082802111.html http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes/single Professor Betts said, “One of the reasons that the Senate committee got along well (with the White House) is because (White House officials) were really pissed off at the Pike Committee, which they considered partisan and more flaky.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:35:44 GMT http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes/single http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/newsletter/sep_2009.html Professor Ester Fuchs, director of SIPA's Urban and Social Policy Concentration, was reappointed to the FDIC's Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion (ComE-IN). The committee provides the FDIC with advice and recommendations on expanding access to banking services by under-served populations. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said Professor Fuchs' "...insight and participation as a representative of the academic community has been invaluable.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/newsletter/sep_2009.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/el2253-fac.html Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer has been appointed to a three-year term as director of SIPA’s United Nations Studies Program after a successful term as the acting director. Lindenmayer is an adjunct professor, teaching courses on peacekeeping and the UN Security Council. The UN Studies Program promotes teaching, training, and career development in the pursuit of multilateral solutions to global dilemmas. Lindenmayer previously served as an advisor to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/el2253-fac.html http://www.observer.com/2009/what-role-government Writing in the New York Observer, Professor Steven Cohen examines the debate over health care and the role of government. He writes, "...the central issue is effective management, not socialized vs. private medicine. Bad management can take place in any organization - in government, in non-profits and in the private sector." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:44 GMT http://www.observer.com/2009/what-role-government http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31784&Cr=Peacebuilding+Commission&Cr1= Judy Cheng-Hopkins (MIA ’78) has been appointed as United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support. Cheng-Hopkins previously served as Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees in charge of operations in more than 118 countries. The Peacebuilding Support Office helps nations recovering from conflict achieve sustainable peace. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31784&Cr=Peacebuilding+Commission&Cr1= http://www.miamiherald.com/513/story/1188230.html Professor Stiglitz said the International Monetary Fund "...has said that it's going to give money to certain countries, at good rates, without the kind of conditionality that turned recessions into depressions.'' sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.miamiherald.com/513/story/1188230.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html In an interview on MSNBC, Professor Sharyn O’Halloran says to stimulate the economy "...you need to get money to people who will spend it immediately. (With) something like a tax break, people only spend 40 cents on the dollar. So that’s not an efficient way to get money back into the economy." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html http://news.columbia.edu/global/1632 Professor Austin Long, who recently returned from conducting research in Afghanistan, says U.S. troops will supplement existing NATO-led security forces and Afghan authorities in securing elections. “This combined force is probably sufficient for securing most major population centers, like Kabul and Kandahar City, as well as the actual polling stations. However, it may not be enough to prevent intimidation in some villages away from the polling stations.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:35:44 GMT http://news.columbia.edu/global/1632 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1915446,00.html Professor Sick said, "If it were possible to choke off the gasoline supply into Iran, the likelihood is that Iran's existing refinery capacity would be used first and foremost to ensure that the needs of the security forces and the regime are taken care of." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:35:44 GMT http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1915446,00.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aU7jaApiSYsg Professor Stiglitz said in an interview on Bloomberg TV that a replacement is “something we ought to consider,” without suggesting alternative candidates. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:35:44 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aU7jaApiSYsg http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/greening-china-mayors-steve-hammer-th-interview.php As China faces unprecedented growth and urbanization, the Chinese government is working to develop ambitious energy and emissions-reductions goals. To help achieve these goals, SIPA’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy (CEMTPP) has been working with the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy organization to train mayors across China on energy efficiency policies. CEMTPP also provided support to the training by developing case studies on “best practice” urban energy efficiency policies and programs in leading cities around the world. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:16:44 GMT http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/greening-china-mayors-steve-hammer-th-interview.php http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/opinion/06iht-edlenzi.html?_r=2 Professor Lincoln Mitchell co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times, writing, “In the year since the war between Russia and Georgia, it has become clear that ... Washington must develop distinct policies for Georgia and the other countries on Russia’s periphery.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:16:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/opinion/06iht-edlenzi.html?_r=2 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32331524#32331468 Professor O'Halloran said, “You need to get money to people who will spend it immediately. (With) something like a tax break, people only spend 40 cents on the dollar. So that's not an efficient way to get money back into the economy.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32331524#32331468 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503119.html Professor Sestanovich writes “In explaining that the United States is not putting itself on a collision course with Russia, Biden could have claimed credit for what has already been accomplished. And to reassure those who think that U.S. policy is long on talk and short on action, he would have to be more candid about what it will take to strengthen the independence of Russia's neighbors.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503119.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/opinion/06iht-edlenzi.html Professor Mitchell co-authored an op-ed, saying, “In the year since the war between Russia and Georgia, it has become clear that … Washington must develop distinct policies for Georgia and the other countries on Russia's periphery.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/opinion/06iht-edlenzi.html http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_perils_of_post_probes_59kgngf3DaPqGg6HIlQE1H Professor Stuart Gottlieb writes in the New York Post about new momentum to probe the Bush administration's policies regarding terror suspects and domestic spying. He writes, “…Obama (or any other president) would require maximum flexibility to act in the event of (a nuclear attack)—or to prevent one. Yet partisan investigations into alleged post-9/11 abuses would put future officials on notice that their actions might place them at risk of later investigations and possible criminal prosecution. This would create a dangerous chilling effect on counterterrorism policy.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:17:44 GMT http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_perils_of_post_probes_59kgngf3DaPqGg6HIlQE1H http://www.cnbc.com/id/32203694 Professor Eimicke, director of the Picker Center for Executive Education, is on public service leave as Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Planning and Policy for the Fire Department of New York. He says, “With better information, we might have avoided the loss of firefighters' lives when the Deutsche Bank building, shuttered for seven years following the twin towers attack, took fire and collapsed. It took this tragedy for us to undertake a rigorous analytic approach to our mission.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:17:44 GMT http://www.cnbc.com/id/32203694 http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1912772,00.html Professor Prewitt, former director of the Census Bureau, says “In American society, there's a whole political logic of fairness proportionate to our numbers. This is where that starts.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:17:44 GMT http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1912772,00.html http://www.nypost.com/seven/07182009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_perils_of_post_9_11_probes_179868.htm Professor Gottlieb writes, “In the wake of a nuclear terrorist attack, is it plausible to assume that providing captured suspects with Geneva Convention protections would be a top priority of federal officials? Should we expect strict privacy rights to trump urgent efforts by law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to gather information necessary to avert another explosion? Wouldn't we want the president to authorize a host of creative, covert policies aimed at protecting the nation against a ruthless covert enemy?” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://www.nypost.com/seven/07182009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_perils_of_post_9_11_probes_179868.htm http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/22/mexico.immigrants/ Professor de la Garza, comments on a Pew Hispanic Center study showing Mexican immigration to the United States has dropped sharply since 2005, but the flow of migrants returning to Mexico remains steady. “For those in Mexico, it remains expensive and risky to be smuggled into the United States, especially in a weak economy. Things are worse in Mexico than they are here. The job you have here is better than what you have there. If you go back, what do you go back to?” de la Garza said. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/22/mexico.immigrants/ http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/%5Cthe-us-economy-may-be-flat-for-10-years-may-drag-others%5C/364493/ In an interview Professor Calvo says, “If you talk about the U.S. economy for another 10 years, it would be quite flat, and it might drag the global economy. For India, too, it will be difficult to get back to 9 percent growth in the coming decade.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/%5Cthe-us-economy-may-be-flat-for-10-years-may-drag-others%5C/364493/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/07/24/ST2009072400097.html Professor Mitchell says, "One could argue that (Georgia ombudsman Sozar Subari) is more dangerous to the Georgian government on the outside than he is on the inside. They see the value of having some democratic structure even if they are not democratic.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/07/24/ST2009072400097.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/workshops/documents/NYFDPropertySavedIndicatorReport.doc SIPA’s Capstone Workshops allow students to apply practical skills and analytical knowledge to a real-world issue. In a workshop conducted for the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), the student team developed an indicator of property “saved,” as opposed to property “lost;” the first of its kind in the country. The team estimates the FDNY saves around $3.1 billion of property annually. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/workshops/documents/NYFDPropertySavedIndicatorReport.doc http://www.financialexpress.com/news/2010-is-too-optimistic-a-guess-for-recovery/491193/ In an interview, Professor Calvo says, “Emerging markets can do much to protect themselves. India has decided to control capital movement, which is not the only thing to do. You can protect yourself also by structuring your financial system in a way that there are no foreign exchange debts.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://www.financialexpress.com/news/2010-is-too-optimistic-a-guess-for-recovery/491193/ http://www.ncaer.org/ Professor Guillermo Calvo, director of SIPA's Program in Economic Policy Management, delivered the keynote address at the Sixth Annual India Policy Forum, organized by the National Council of Applied Economic Research and the Brookings Institution. During the forum, Professor Calvo spoke with India’s Financial Express and Business Standard. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://www.ncaer.org/ http://universityprograms.columbia.edu/job-creation-and-workforce-development-international-summit SIPA’s Urban Policy concentration participated in the NYC Global Partners summit, “Job Creation and Workforce Development,” held at Columbia University. Presentations focused on successful policies and initiatives to train a competitive urban workforce, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered the keynote address. Professor Ester Fuchs, director of SIPA’s Urban Policy concentration, authored the case study Innovations in City Government: The Case of New York City’s Workforce Development System. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://universityprograms.columbia.edu/job-creation-and-workforce-development-international-summit http://www.newsweek.com/id/207390 In a profile of Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Newsweek says he “predicted the global financial meltdown. So why can't he get any respect here at home? While he may be a Nobel laureate, in Washington he's seen as just another economic critic–and not always a welcome one.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:44 GMT http://www.newsweek.com/id/207390 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bilmes2-2009jul02,0,1621172.story Professor Stiglitz, with co-author Linda J. Bilmes writes, “The conflict that began in 2003 is far from over for us, and the next chapter–confronting a Taliban that reasserted itself in Afghanistan while the U.S. was sidetracked in Iraq–will be expensive and bloody.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:33:44 GMT http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bilmes2-2009jul02,0,1621172.story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062801904.html?sub=AR Steven Cohen said, "He was hardly Client 9. But it's credibility more than anything else. The issue is whether a public official levels with his constituents. And disappearing for nearly a week is not leveling with your constituents." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:33:44 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062801904.html?sub=AR http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/26/2009-06-26_experts_obama_must_navigate_murky_waters_of_iranian_crisis.html Professor Jervis said, “Our friends in the region are certainly torn. They don't like Ahmadinejad, they want to see Iran's wings clipped ... but on the other hand they don't want to see precedents of American meddling in internal affairs.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:33:44 GMT http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/26/2009-06-26_experts_obama_must_navigate_murky_waters_of_iranian_crisis.html http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-07-09-stiglitz-slams-inflationtargeting On a visit to South Africa, Professor Stiglitz said "I'm very strongly opposed to rigid inflation targeting. The financial crisis is in part as a result of central banks focusing on inflation. You have to balance it with other concerns." sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-07-09-stiglitz-slams-inflationtargeting http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/DistinguishedTeachingAwards2009.html Andrea Bubula and Geoffrey Jehle each received SIPA's Distinguished Teaching Award for 2009. The awards are offered in two categories – Professor Bubula won for courses with enrollment of 45 students or more; Professor Jehle for courses with fewer than 45 students. Each was selected by students through an online ballot that featured ten nominees in each category. The nominees were the top performers in the quantitative portion of course evaluations for the spring and fall 2008 semesters. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/DistinguishedTeachingAwards2009.html http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/third-world-debt200907 Professor Stiglitz writes, “While there may be no winners in the current economic crisis, there are losers, and among the big losers is support for American-style capitalism. This has consequences we’ll be living with for a long time to come.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/third-world-debt200907 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061804131.html?sub=ARCollection=News&currentlyPlayingVideoId=%7BAF4A1A78-7A87-4FD8-A1FC-45F38EAC59C9%7D Professor Gary Sick, National Security Council expert on Iran in the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations, commented on the disputed re-election of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “The Obama administration has handled this pretty well," said Gary Sick. "There's nothing we can do in a proactive way that is going to improve things. We could make things a lot worse." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061804131.html?sub=ARCollection=News&currentlyPlayingVideoId=%7BAF4A1A78-7A87-4FD8-A1FC-45F38EAC59C9%7D http://chronicle.com/article/Needed-Problem-Solvers/44512/ Professor Sachs writes, with co-author John W. McArthur, “...at a time when so many of the world's most-challenging issues require solutions drawing from across academic and professional disciplines, colleges remain overwhelmingly focused on single-discipline studies. While specialists are still essential, and nobody can master all the relevant interconnected areas of expertise, vastly more professionals should have basic knowledge spanning crucial areas like natural science, health science, engineering, public policy, and management. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://chronicle.com/article/Needed-Problem-Solvers/44512/ http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Economy/Story?id=7863370&page=1 Professor Stiglitz said Wall Street has become a big casino with an enormous amount of excess risk. “We've allowed these [financial] institutions to get so big that they're too big not only to fail, but too big to be managed and almost too big to be saved.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Economy/Story?id=7863370&page=1 http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5090649n&tag=contentMain;contentBody' SIPA Professor and Iran expert Gary Sick is blogging about the Iranian elections and the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Professor Sick writes: "The fraudulent election defeat of (Mir Hossein) Mousavi was a triggering event, but the energy behind these unprecedented demonstrations is due more to the sense of outrage and betrayal at the gross manipulation of numbers by the regime than it is about any undying devotion to Mousavi." sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5090649n&tag=contentMain;contentBody' http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1902841,00.html Professor Sick addresses U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross’s dialogue with Iran. "He favors a pro forma attempt at negotiations with Iran, followed by far more severe sanctions or even military action if and when they fail." sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1902841,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/nyregion/15babies.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1245348107-7iJ1su0dV4ls+1i8bUl80w Professor Almond’s paper “Son-biased Sex Ratios in the 2000 United States Census,” with co-author Lena Edlund, was featured in the New York Times. The article notes, “…a number of experts expressed surprise to see evidence that the preference for sons among Asian-Americans has been so significantly carried over to this country.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/nyregion/15babies.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1245348107-7iJ1su0dV4ls+1i8bUl80w http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/WorldBank-USTreasury.html During 2008 – 2009, more than three dozen SIPA students completed projects under faculty supervision for the U.S. Treasury Department, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. They completed the projects for academic credit, but also in the words of one student, “because someone needs it.” This kind of hands-on learning experience is a central part of a SIPA education. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/WorldBank-USTreasury.html http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/10/chinese_exports_are_not_exactly_chinese Professor Wei, along with Robert Koopman and Zhi Wang of the U.S. International Trade Commission, writes: “Over the last 20 years, supply chains have fragmented across the globe–with one part made here, and another made there. Rarely is any one product made in any one country … A tag like ‘Made in China, Vietnam, the United States, Japan, and China again,’ might be more apt.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/10/chinese_exports_are_not_exactly_chinese http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a0yXeqHPvAIs Professor Joseph Stiglitz said: Business opposition to Obama’s plans “is the same sort of thing we heard in the first year of the Clinton administration, and that marked the beginning of an investment boom.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:54:44 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a0yXeqHPvAIs http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/world/asia/07lama.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=Robert%20Barnett&st=cse Professor Barnett commented on the competition between the current Dalai Lama’s followers-in-exile and China, on the selection of the 15th Dalai Lama. “It’s a huge but ultra-critical issue, with no clear outcome or solution except one: trouble,” said Robert Barnett, a Tibet scholar at Columbia University. “It is going to end up with two Dalai Lamas and thus with long-running conflict, unless the Chinese agree to a diplomatic solution pretty soon.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/world/asia/07lama.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=Robert%20Barnett&st=cse http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104927935 Zaina Arafat (MIA ’09) was a guest on National Public Radio, reacting to President Barack Obama’s address in Cairo, Egypt entitled, “A New Beginning.” Arafat, a native of the West Bank, said “I thought President Obama ... showed a deep understanding and respect for Muslims. As a woman, I was pleased to hear him address women’s access to education in the Muslim world.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104927935 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/us/politics/05judge.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 Bill Eimicke, director of SIPA’s Picker Center and former NY state housing “czar,” addressed Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s tenure on the board of SONYMA, the state mortgage agency. He said, “She was the youngest board member but extremely involved in the details.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/us/politics/05judge.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml Professor Robb writes, “No cost-benefit calculation could justify pouring billions into "saving" 30,000 jobs in an industry that needs only to shrink. No, this is about politics. Michigan is a swing state, and, maybe more important, it was time for the administration to bail out a business not on Wall Street.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:00:00 -0400 http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23256_Page2.html Professor Warren said, “It doesn’t surprise me that (President) Obama would be trying to maintain relationships within the traditional civil rights movement and reaching out to Sharpton. He is a respected civil rights leader who represents a legitimate constituency: hundreds of thousands of black people. It’s a smart move.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:09:00 -0500 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23256_Page2.html http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907090105dowjonesdjonline000009&title=china-sovereign-fund-names-international-advisory-board-members Merit Janow, professor of international trade, has been appointed to the international advisory board of the China Investment Corporation, the country's $200 billion sovereign-wealth fund. The newly established board has 14 members, and comprises economists, investors and former government officials from the United States, Europe and Asia. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907090105dowjonesdjonline000009&title=china-sovereign-fund-names-international-advisory-board-members http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/EPDWorkshop-Endeavor.html A student team from SIPA's Workshop in Development Practice learned more about entrepreneurship and video production, while producing a video for Endeavor. Endeavor is an organization that works to transform the economies of emerging markets by supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. SIPA workshops allow students to apply practical skills and analytical knowledge to a real-world issue. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/EPDWorkshop-Endeavor.html http://www.cicr-columbia.org/ As Vince Lombardi said, “Leaders aren’t born. They are made.” To help build a roster of leaders for the future, SIPA’s Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and Consensus, a negotiation and conflict resolution consulting firm, are offering a series of executive workshops. Participants will hone their leadership and negotiation skills through intensive two-day sessions. The next workshop, “Constructive Candor in the Workplace,” is scheduled for June 25 - 26. It will teach participants how to constructively broach conversations that normally generate anxiety and cause them to avoid dealing with a disturbing situation. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cicr-columbia.org/ http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Swati Swati Desai has been appointed as Associate Professor of Practice and will teach management. Desai served in a variety of positions with the City of New York’s Human Resources Administration, most recently as Executive Deputy Commissioner of Evaluation and Research. She has previously taught at Fordham University, New York University and Long Island University; and her research interests include management analysis, performance management, and health and labor economics. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Swati http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aKR_ZKXJVsh8 Professor Stiglitz said in a Web cast that “a greater division in U.S. society could result from widening income gaps between union workers and management.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 29 May 1900 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aKR_ZKXJVsh8 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/readinglists/what-to-read-on-lobbying Professor Lieberman writes, “Most commentators fall into one of two opposing camps: those who believe that group demands distort politics and policymaking by pursuing narrow private interests at the expense of a broader public interest, and those who believe the public interest itself is simply an aggregation of group interests.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/readinglists/what-to-read-on-lobbying http://www.rferl.org/content/Is_A_New_RussiaGeorgia_War_On_The_Horizon/1740028.html Professor Mitchell says Russia’s strategy mostly will be to keep the pressure on and let the political situation in Georgia deteriorate. "Russia has a pretty big margin of error in Georgia now.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.rferl.org/content/Is_A_New_RussiaGeorgia_War_On_The_Horizon/1740028.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124326727412951593.html Professor Panagariya wrote, “The media around the world has reported with some sense of amazement that Manmohan Singh is the first full-term Indian prime minister to be returned to power since 1962, and implied that this re-election gives Mr. Singh a mandate for economic reform. But a more meaningful historical parallel exists between his return and that of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124326727412951593.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/business/global/26inside-asia.html Professor Panagariya said India was likely to climb back to its pre-crisis growth rate of 8 to 9 percent a year. “And if the reforms get done, I have no doubt they can get to 11, 12 percent. The gap with China will be closed. It’s an issue of time.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/business/global/26inside-asia.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8520399 Former U.N. Secretary-General and SIPA Global Fellow Kofi Annan offered advice for Sri Lanka's government: Reach out and reconcile with the Tamil minority and heal the wounds from the 25-year civil war. Annan was recently named SIPA’s first Global Fellow. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8520399 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/opinion/20sestanovich.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y Professor Sestanovich writes, “No new administration is done with its foreign-policy housecleaning until it confronts that cold war fossil, the Jackson-Vanik amendment. First enacted in 1974, it made normal trade relations with the Soviet Union contingent on free emigration. Russia has now allowed such freedom for years, and a law that once embodied the importance of human rights in East-West relations remains in force merely to provide Congress with leverage in trade negotiations.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 May 2009 03:19:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/opinion/20sestanovich.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/nyregion/16bloomberg.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=steven%20cohen%20bloomberg&st=cse Despite a commanding lead in the polls, Mayor Bloomberg has spent $18.7 million on his re-election campaign, nearly twice as much as he had spent at this point in the 2005 race, according to documents released on Friday. “It’s a shock-and-awe approach,” said Professor Cohen. “He’s making it very hard for the opposition to gain any traction.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 May 2009 03:19:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/nyregion/16bloomberg.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=steven%20cohen%20bloomberg&st=cse http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/05/18/congress-wins-decisive-victory-in-indias-elections/5433/ Professor Arvind Panagariya discusses the Indian elections, the decisive victory of the Congress Party and what the U.S. and Pakistan can expect from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his second term in office. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 May 2009 03:19:44 GMT http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/05/18/congress-wins-decisive-victory-in-indias-elections/5433/ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GraduationAwards2009.html On May 18, SIPA awarded 737 students a Master of International Affairs or a Master of Public Administration. SIPA also recognized 13 graduating students for their achievementsd. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GraduationAwards2009.html http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id=%7B4cef99b1-9da5-4b5e-8c17-77aca0c6aec8%7D In an interview with Chile's largest newspaper, Professor Lieberman said, "President Obama’s race has made no difference in his governing, which reflects the themes that he has been handling, like the economy or international relations. He hasn’t faced questions in which race represents a problem or impediment for him.” (in Spanish) sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 May 2009 03:19:44 GMT http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id=%7B4cef99b1-9da5-4b5e-8c17-77aca0c6aec8%7D http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2009/05/04/talk-to-me-jeffrey-sachs-at-the-pen-world-voices-festival/ Professor Sachs touches on the potential of the swine flu, the federal bailouts and several basic themes of his book “Common Wealth.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 May 2009 03:19:44 GMT http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2009/05/04/talk-to-me-jeffrey-sachs-at-the-pen-world-voices-festival/ http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/06/georgias_mutiny_mystery Professor Mitchell writes: “Although Georgia's chances of getting into NATO in the near future are significantly less than what some in Tbilisi, and Washington, would like, it's certainly not out of the question that Russia would jump at the chance to play a disruptive and destructive role in Georgia.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 May 2009 03:19:44 GMT http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/06/georgias_mutiny_mystery http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6218752 As doctors and public health officials around the world grapple with the H1N1 virus, the so-called swine flu, lessons can be learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, SIPA Assistant Professor Douglas Almond studied the impact of the flu on pre-natal infants during the 1918 pandemic and its long-term health effects. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6218752 http://rtl.lamp.columbia.edu/sites/sipa/2009/04/13/workshop-in-development-practice/ A team from SIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice partnered with the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), as it helps Nias Island in Indonesia recover in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The workshop consisted of four weeks of field work. Team member Kelly Heindel (MIA '09) recently blogged her workshop experience. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://rtl.lamp.columbia.edu/sites/sipa/2009/04/13/workshop-in-development-practice/ http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Doyle Professor Michael Doyle has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest learned society. Professor Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, specializing in international relations theory, international security and international organizations. He previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Doyle http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GlobalFellowsAnnouncement.html Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) has launched a new Global Fellows Program. The new program will bring to campus each year a distinguished group of global leaders, each of whom has played a significant role in designing, shaping, or implementing solutions to critical global problems. The first cohort of SIPA Global Fellows will include Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Former Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer, and Tung Chee Hwa, Former and first Chief Executive of Hong Kong. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GlobalFellowsAnnouncement.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presented “The Obama Administration Faces Afghanistan,” a forum at Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1082409.html Michael Oren (MIA ’78) has been appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to become Israel’s next ambassador to the United States. Oren completed a BA at Columbia College, an MIA at SIPA, and was an International Fellow. He has taught at Georgetown, Harvard and Yale, and is known for advocating that Israel unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1082409.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_investcorp_lecture_886.html Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman of Infosys Technologies and author of “Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation,” delivered the annual Investcorp Lecture in International Affairs, co-sponsored by SIPA and the South Asian Journalists Association. Nilekani was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by ”Time” magazine in 2006 and was named Forbes Businessman of the Year in 2007. His lecture and book address the future of India and its role as a global citizen and emerging economic giant. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_investcorp_lecture_886.html http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1545 Jakob Silas Lund (MIA '09) likes to think that he learned to walk and play soccer at the same time. As a SIPA student, Lund’s life-long love of soccer (or football, as it is known in most of the world), combined with his dedication to human rights, led him to establish an organization that uses soccer as a means for reconciliation in Sierra Leone, a country ravaged by an 11-year civil war. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 14 May 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1545 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/business/02nocera.html?_r=1&ref=business Professor Stiglitz, believes there is a better way to deal with the crisis. He says, “Banks made bad loans, and the question is: who is going to pay for those losses? It is almost a zero-sum game: the government or the bondholders?” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 05 May 2009 11:52:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/business/02nocera.html?_r=1&ref=business http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/newsletter/documents/EneManNYCPubHousReport.pdf Students in the MPA program in Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) worked with the New York City Housing Authority in its effort to boost energy-efficient building retrofits. The students were asked to describe and assess similar efforts to enhance the energy efficiency of older multi-family residential buildings, as part of a benchmark study of potential “green” technologies. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/newsletter/documents/EneManNYCPubHousReport.pdf http://consiliencejournal.readux.org/2009/06/wasted-again-what-can-we-do-with-all-of-that-garbage/ Professor Steven Cohen, Executive Director of the Earth Institute and Director of the Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy at SIPA, addresses the City of New York’s trash troubles. He writes in the spring 2009 edition of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, “As I’ve mentioned before, it would be hard to invent a more environmentally damaging, or more expensive system of waste management, than the one we use.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://consiliencejournal.readux.org/2009/06/wasted-again-what-can-we-do-with-all-of-that-garbage/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304011.html?sub=AR After visiting the State Department with 30 students, Professor Sestanovich wrote, “What the president and his team really need is a strategy for dealing with Congress.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304011.html?sub=AR http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124034036512839857.html#mod=todays_us_page_one Professor Joseph Stiglitz said, "We have little to lose, and much to gain, by breaking up these behemoths, which are not just too big to fail, but also too big to save and too big to manage." sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124034036512839857.html#mod=todays_us_page_one http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7404351&page=1 Professor Jeffrey Sachs said on ABC’s World News, “This is precisely the time to invest in solutions because those investments are actually going to help us get out of the downturn that we're in.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7404351&page=1 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_18/b4129020609532.htm Professor Gary Sick, an expert on Iran, says, "(President) Obama has prompted Iranians to have an open debate about the relationship they want to have with the U.S." sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_18/b4129020609532.htm http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/PublicPolicyCaseCompetition2009.html What will it take to turn around an inefficient and beleaguered state medical claims processing system? That was the problem addressed by the fifteen policy students, who competed in SIPA’s Public Policy Case Competition on April 10. The winning team of Garrett Wright (MIA ’10), Chelsea Gorr (MIA ’10) and Aurora Cardenas (MPA ’09) crafted a solution and took top honors in the contest. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:21:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/PublicPolicyCaseCompetition2009.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/resources_services/admissions/interviews.html Dirk Salomons is the director of the Program for Humanitarian Affairs at SIPA. Professor Salomons focuses on the interaction between policy and management in humanitarian operations, and has a particular interest in the demobilization and reintegration of former combatants after armed conflict. In an interview, Professor Salomons explains the uniqueness of the program; talks about courses available at SIPA related to Humanitarian Affairs; and delves into the characteristics of what makes a successful SIPA student. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:21:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/resources_services/admissions/interviews.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_economic_nyc_888.html What does the future hold for New York, as Wall Street struggles to overcome the global financial downturn? Seth Pinsky, President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, addresses New York’s economic development agenda, highlighting specific projects and a focus on diversification initiatives. The event was co-sponsored by SIPA's Urban Policy concentration and Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_economic_nyc_888.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/BrazilMiningWorkshop1.html A student team from SIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice received this year’s Leous Parry Award for Progressive Sustainability for its work on promoting social dialogue on the impacts of mining company operations in Pará, Brazil. The award was created by two SIPA alumni, J.P. Leous and Neal Parry, to support interdisciplinary approaches to protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/BrazilMiningWorkshop1.html http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cherlist/jaffrelot.php Christophe Jaffrelot, director of CERI at Sciences Po in Paris, France's foremost center for research on the international political system, will join SIPA in the fall of 2009 as a visiting professor. Professor Jaffrelot holds degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, the University of Paris I-Sorbonne and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. Other new faculty announced for the fall of 2009 include Scott Barrett, Kemal Dervis and Austin Long. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cherlist/jaffrelot.php http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/workshops/NYC_FDNY.html Capstone workshops serve as the culminating educational experience for students, allowing them to apply the practical skills and analytical knowledge learned at SIPA to a real-world issue. Students are organized into small consulting teams and assigned a substantive, policy-oriented project with an external client. One team is working with the Fire Department of New York to explore best practices in the collection of information on property loss and properties protected. The workshop team will make recommendations to enable the FDNY to implement a property preservation indicator in 2009. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/workshops/NYC_FDNY.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/opinion/l21torture.html In a letter to the editor, Stuart Gottlieb calls for: “the creation of a special national security court system, which balances the necessity of keeping dangerous terrorists off the streets, with a legitimate process to determine who those individuals are.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/opinion/l21torture.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-04-19-earth-day_N.htm Steven Cohen, Director of Program in Environmental Science and Policy, said "When Earth Day started, it was like a national day of protest. There was a counterculture dimension to it.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-04-19-earth-day_N.htm http://www.newsweek.com/id/193515 Professor Gary Sick, an expert on Iran, predicts the president of Iran will suffer in the coming election. He says, "People will be spending more time and attention on survival and economic issues than on religious ideology.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.newsweek.com/id/193515 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/coatsworth.mp3 SIPA Dean John Coatsworth, an expert on Latin America, commented on President Barack Obama's trip to Trinidad for the Summit of the Americas. He said, "I think his aim is to change the tone of U.S.- Latin American relations and escape without making any important commitments." sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/coatsworth.mp3 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html "Our financial industry took over our government rather than our government regulating our financial industry.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0413/p06s07-wome.html SIPA Dean John Coatsworth says, "One thing that local centers can do is to work with NGOs, activists, and civil society to help them focus their concerns.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0413/p06s07-wome.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1890380,00.html Professor Joseph Stiglitz says, “The G-20 decision to create $250 billion in new SDRs (special drawing right) marks a "major step" toward establishing the SDR as a global reserve currency.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1890380,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/europe/10nato.html?ref=europe Professor Richard Betts is quoted from his article in The National Interest, describing NATO’s identity crisis, with three competing functions and self images. He calls them “a potentially corrosive mix, particularly as they relate to Russia,” with the potential to further divide the United States from its European allies. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/europe/10nato.html?ref=europe http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/opinion/09sachs.html?scp=1&sq=jeffrey%20sachs&st=cse Professor Jeffrey Sachs writes in an op-ed: “Rather than have Washington decide the kind of aid each country will receive, the recipient countries should be invited to prepare plans and budgets that would be reviewed by independent experts.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/opinion/09sachs.html?scp=1&sq=jeffrey%20sachs&st=cse http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/07/obama_s_drone_strike_counterterrorism_policy Stuart Gottlieb writes: “…with tensions rising in Pakistan and around the Muslim world over the brutality and high civilian death toll from these targeted assassination attacks, the United States' day of reckoning regarding this policy may soon arrive as well.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/07/obama_s_drone_strike_counterterrorism_policy http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c5dfd57c-230a-11de-9c99-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5dfd57c-230a-11de-9c99-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1 Professor Jeffrey Sachs writes, “The Geithner-and-Summers Plan (Gasp) to buy toxic assets from the banks is rightly scorned as an unnecessary give-away by virtually every independent economist who has looked at it.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c5dfd57c-230a-11de-9c99-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5dfd57c-230a-11de-9c99-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/04/06/2009-04-06_president_obama_are_you_ready_heres_the_-1.html Professor Robert Jervis, expert in international politics and security policy, said “With everything else on his plate, this is something Obama would rather not have to deal with, but he has to do it.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:44 GMT http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/04/06/2009-04-06_president_obama_are_you_ready_heres_the_-1.html http://www.geuzenverzet.nl/?lang=EN SIPA alumna Jessica Montell (MIA ’95) accepted the Geuzen Medal 2009 on behalf of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, where she is the director. Also awarded the Geuzen Medal was Al-Haq, the Palestinian Human Rights Organization, where Shawa Jabarin is the director. Jabarin participated in Columbia University’s Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) in 2001. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:42:44 GMT http://www.geuzenverzet.nl/?lang=EN http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms%3A//media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vKo39MMHkr4M.asf Professor Bhagwati appeared on a panel at the 7th European Business Summit that included European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos, Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy and European Union Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen. He says, "The U.S. is in a particularly difficult situation to meet this kind of crisis, which is very deep-seated, compared to the Europeans where the safety net amounts to a hammock." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:42:44 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms%3A//media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vKo39MMHkr4M.asf http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/26/for-laid-off-ibm-workers-a-job-in-india/ Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, comments on IBM offering workers an incentive to move overseas. He says, "Such a massive technological revolution will cause the borders to blur, if not disappear." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:42:44 GMT http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/26/for-laid-off-ibm-workers-a-job-in-india/ http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/03/31/sipa-hire-budget-independently Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) will become an autonomous professional school on July 1, 2009. “SIPA will maintain close ties to the Arts and Sciences, but will have the financial and academic independence to develop in new and exciting ways,” said SIPA Dean John Coatsworth. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/03/31/sipa-hire-budget-independently http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/4456892/2009/03/30/3/ Professor Sharyn O’Halloran says, “...they have done well in coordinating monetary policy, interest rate lowering and so on, but they have been less effective in coordinating fiscal response to the economic crisis.” (In Icelandic) sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/4456892/2009/03/30/3/ http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GlobalFellowsAnnouncement.html Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) has launched a new Global Fellows Program. The new program will bring to campus each year a distinguished group of global leaders, each of whom has played a significant role in designing, shaping, or implementing solutions to critical global problems. The first cohort of SIPA Global Fellows will include former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, former Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer, and Tung Chee Hwa, former and first Chief Executive of Hong Kong. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:47:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GlobalFellowsAnnouncement.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_biberman_916.html Nancy Biberman, President of the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation, delivered an address entitled, "Breaking the Green Ceiling: Affordable Housing Meets Environmentalism." Biberman discusses how beautiful design and green building can be brought into the low-budget realm of affordable housing. Her address was presented by SIPA’s Urban Policy and Social Policy concentrations. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:47:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_biberman_916.html http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?brand=sipa&id=33101&vt=detail&context=standalone Dr. Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, will deliver an address entitled, “Southeast Europe’s Future: A Perspective from a New NATO Ally.” The address will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 3, in Room 1501 of Columbia’s International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street. Dr. Sanader’s address is presented by the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), the Harriman Institute, the European Institute and the East Central European Center. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:47:44 GMT http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?brand=sipa&id=33101&vt=detail&context=standalone http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/concentrations/epd/documents/UCOBAC_FINAL_REPORT.pdf A SIPA Workshop in Development Practice won the Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson Award for Human Values in International Affairs. The student team of Shailly Barnes, Marcy Hersh, Meredith Stricker and Jennifer Takigawa conducted an analysis for the Uganda-based Association for Child Welfare, creating a set of recommendations for an initiative on women’s property rights. The Gitelson Award recognizes a project that promotes a broad understanding of human rights and humanitarian action. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:47:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/concentrations/epd/documents/UCOBAC_FINAL_REPORT.pdf http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7950027.stm Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, writes "...if the electorate goes by the contribution the present government has made to the accelerated growth in incomes, it would hand the latter its worst defeat." sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7950027.stm http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SIPAAutonomy.html Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) will become an autonomous professional school on July 1, 2009. “SIPA will maintain close ties to the Arts and Sciences, but will have the financial and academic independence to develop in new and exciting ways,” said SIPA Dean John Coatsworth. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:45:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/SIPAAutonomy.html http://bamboobikeproject.wordpress.com/ Capstone workshops serve as the culminating educational experience for students, allowing them to apply the practical skills and analytical knowledge learned at SIPA to a real-world issue. One of this year’s workshop teams is developing a business plan for building, marketing and selling bamboo bikes in Kisumu, Kenya. The production of bicycles from a local material – bamboo – is expected to create new employment opportunities in Kenya. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:45:44 GMT http://bamboobikeproject.wordpress.com/ http://www.cicr-columbia.org/#cicr As the world navigates these turbulent economic times, leadership and communication skills are in ever-greater demand. But as Vince Lombardi said, “Leaders aren’t born. They are made.” To help build a roster of leaders for the future, Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and Consensus, a negotiation and conflict resolution consulting firm, are partnering to offer a series of executive workshops. Participants will have the opportunity to hone their leadership and negotiation skills through intensive two-day sessions conducted at Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:45:44 GMT http://www.cicr-columbia.org/#cicr http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/HarveyPickerPrize2009.html Jakob Lund (MIA '09) and Brandon Woods (MIA "09) have been awarded SIPA’s 2009 Harvey Picker Prize for Public Service. The Harvey Picker Prize recognizes graduating students who demonstrate exceptional commitment to public service. Lund founded Play31, an organization that provides footballs and other sporting goods equipment to children in post-conflict zones. Woods served as a volunteer with The Liberty Partnerships Program at Barnard College, spearheading an enrichment program for youth in New York. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:03:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/HarveyPickerPrize2009.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FundforGlobalDevelopmentandConflictResolution.html SIPA's Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea announce the establishment of the Fund for Global Environment and Conflict Resolution. Through the Fund, the Center for International Conflict Resolution will promote research conducted by prominent scholars at Columbia University, in Italy and around the world, as it pertains to issues of global environment and conflict resolution. The Fund will provide support for research, teaching and fellowships over a period of three years. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:03:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FundforGlobalDevelopmentandConflictResolution.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GraduationAwards2009.html On Monday, May 18, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs awarded 737 students a Master of International Affairs or a Master of Public Administration. SIPA also recognized thirteen graduating students for their achievements. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:03:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/GraduationAwards2009.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29794298#29794298 In an interview in Beijing, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz lauded China’s handling of the global economic crisis. Professor Stiglitz said, “There’s every reason to believe that China will be successful in not only stimulating its economy, reducing the downturn from what it otherwise would have been, but that it will use substantial parts of the stimulus to address some of the long-standing needs.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29794298#29794298 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/documents/SestanovichTestimony090319a.pdf Professor Stephen Sestanovich, an expert in Russian and Eastern European studies and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, testified March 19, 2009 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the “Prospects for Engagement with Russia.” Professor Sestanovich testified that “The worsening of Russian-American relations has involved real clashes of policy and perspective – and active involvement by policymakers om SIPA and Columbia University on the global financial crisis and the 2009 meeting of the G-20 in London. Among the resources are videos of two panel discussions hosted by Merit Janow, Professor of International Trade and Director of SIPA's international economic policy concentration. The panels included experts from the Columbia University community and the private and public sectors. More [2009] on both sides.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/documents/SestanovichTestimony090319a.pdf http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/13/g20-london-tariffs-trade-opinions-contributors-credit.html Professor Arvind Panagariya writes: “If history is any guide, measures to roll back creeping protection and move the process of trade liberalization forward ought to be high on (the G-20’s) agenda. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/13/g20-london-tariffs-trade-opinions-contributors-credit.html http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i26/26b00601.htm Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature, courts controversy with his Palestinian advocacy. Professor Khalidi says: “Israel was established in 1948, a source of great joy for some people. But for Palestinians, that was a disaster in terms of their own history." sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:11:44 GMT http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i26/26b00601.htm http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Counterterrorism Austin Long has been appointed Assistant Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, where he will teach security policy. Long most recently worked as an associate political scientist for the RAND Corporation, serving in Iraq as an analyst and advisor to Multinational Force Iraq and the U.S. military. He also worked as a consultant to MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the technology and urban operations of counterinsurgency. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Counterterrorism http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewMorningsidePost.html The Morningside Post, one of the leading blogs among graduate schools of international affairs and public policy, has launched its new Web site. The site, conceived and managed by SIPA students, features unique perspectives from nearly a hundred students, faculty and alumni. Enhanced features include videos of SIPA speakers, space for student groups to post stories and events, and subscription services to posts according to author, region and topic. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:11:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewMorningsidePost.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewCurriculum2009.html A revised curriculum, which will go into effect in fall 2009, will add new managerial courses to the MIA core, in response to suggestions from our alumni and employers about the skills that are critical for success. In addition, the School will streamline the number of functional concentrations from nineteen to six. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:11:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/NewCurriculum2009.html http://www.walkerbooks.com/books/catalog.php?key=752&display=reviews David Ottaway ’63, former Washington Post correspondent, has published his book The King’s Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan and America’s Tangled Relationship with Saudi Arabia. Ottaway focuses on the relationship that developed between the United States and Saudi Arabia in the period following World War II, which began to unravel during the George W. Bush administration. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:11:44 GMT http://www.walkerbooks.com/books/catalog.php?key=752&display=reviews http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/books/review/Traub-t.html?_r=2&scp=5&sq=rashid%20khalidi&st=cse In a review of Rashid Khalidi’s book Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East, The New York Times quotes Professor Khalidi: … just as the threat of Communism was wildly exaggerated 50 years ago, so, these days, “the global war on terror is in practice an American war in the Middle East against a largely imaginary set of enemies.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/books/review/Traub-t.html?_r=2&scp=5&sq=rashid%20khalidi&st=cse http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=125089%40wcbs.dayport.com As the recession deepens, the slide on Wall Street continues. The government is “not going to the heart of the problem, which is the credit crisis,” said Professor Sharyn O’Halloran. “You have to build up confidence for lenders to lend to each other.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=125089%40wcbs.dayport.com http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101469104 The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir. He is accused of crimes against humanity in the Darfur region. But some warn that the president's arrest could dismantle an already fragile peaceful situation. Professor Mahmoud Mamdani explains what's at stake in Sudan. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101469104 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FinancialCrisis-G20-PanelDiscussions.html Here are a variety of resources available from SIPA and Columbia University on the global financial crisis and the 2009 meeting of the G-20 in London. Among the resources are videos of two panel discussions hosted by Merit Janow, Professor of International Trade and Director of SIPA's international economic policy concentration. The panels included experts from the Columbia University community and the private and public sectors. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/FinancialCrisis-G20-PanelDiscussions.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/FinancialCrisis-G20-PanelDiscussions.html The financial crisis and the role of government is the topic of a panel discussion hosted by Professor Merit E. Janow, director of SIPA’s international economic policy program. Senior leaders from the public and private sectors offered their views on the crisis, the government’s response and potential next steps. Panelists included Henry Kaufman, Peter R. Fisher, Harvey J. Goldschmid and Charles Calomiris. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/FinancialCrisis-G20-PanelDiscussions.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/stiglitz_24feb09.html United Nations University presented a lecture by Nobel Laureate and SIPA Professor Joseph Stiglitz, entitled "Explaining the Financial Crisis and What It Means for the Future of Global Development." The lecture is part of UNU-NY’s series "Emerging Thinking on Global Issues," which aims to promote thinking on global issues through lectures by world class experts and scholars. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:41:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/stiglitz_24feb09.html http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20944ml Professor Richard K. Betts, director of SIPA’s International Security Policy Program, says, “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is one of the most successful alliances of all time, but after the cold war and the successful completion of its mission, NATO suffered an identity crisis.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20944ml http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_story=66793fb0d49b320d4b67addd74984631e52b2c7d&rf=bm China's tactics for quelling civil unrest may backfire during the 50th anniversary of the uprising in Tibet. Professor Robbie Barnett says in a podcast, “The history of Tibetan protest seems to be the unexpected small event that spirals into major unrest.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_story=66793fb0d49b320d4b67addd74984631e52b2c7d&rf=bm http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4785 Professor Stephen Sestanovich, expert on Soviet and East European studies, international studies and foreign policy writes, “For any U.S. president, the trick to dealing with Europe is to politely ignore its advice.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4785 http://www.undp.org/about/bio1.shtml Kemal Dervis will teach a two-semester course on global economic governance, following the conclusion of his tenure as head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Dervis will co-teach with José Antonio Ocampo and will be a fellow of the Committee on Global Thought during the 2009 – 2010 academic year. Dervis was previously a member of the Turkish Parliament, Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey and Vice-President of the World Bank. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.undp.org/about/bio1.shtml http://www.essaycompetition.org/index_1 The World Bank and its partners invite SIPA students and other young people to participate in its International Essay Competition 2009. Participants must be ages 18 – 25. They are invited to share ideas and address two questions: How does climate change affect you? How can you tackle climate change through youth-led solutions? Participants may submit work in three categories: essay, video and photo. The deadline for submission is Sunday, February 22. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.essaycompetition.org/index_1 http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470222794.html Adjunct Professor Richard Goldberg has published his insider’s look at the changing balance of power on Wall Street: The Battle for Wall Street: Behind the Lines in the Struggle that Pushed an Industry into Turmoil. Professor Goldberg analyzes the struggle for power between the sellers and the buyers, and how information technology changed the playing field. Professor Goldberg will take part in SIPA’s Authors’ Series with a presentation and book signing on Monday, February 23 at 6 p.m. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470222794.html http://www.pbs.org/nbr/info/local-player.html?s=nbre07s1ff5q4c4 Professor Joseph Stiglitz says, “The banks are not maximizing the interest of the owners, i.e. the American taxpayers. They're maximizing their interests of their management, of their own shareholders.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:59:44 GMT http://www.pbs.org/nbr/info/local-player.html?s=nbre07s1ff5q4c4 http://www.newsweek.com/id/185441 Dean John Coatsworth, expert on U.S.-Latin American relations, says President Obama has a chance to “put aside the record of American intervention, or interventionism, with which he is not personally associated.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:30:44 GMT http://www.newsweek.com/id/185441 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_yunus_855.html Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, outlined his vision for a new business model in his talk on "Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism." The event was co-sponsored by SIPA's Economic and Political Development Concentration, the Center for the Study of Human Rights, the Center for the Humanities and the Committee on Global Thought. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:31:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/videos/sipa_yunus_855.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3efdc764-f2ca-11dd-abe6-0000779fd2ac.html Professor Jagdish Bhagwati authored an editorial saying President Obama “stepped up to the plate on the Buy American provisions in the stimulus package, leaving little doubt as to where his sentiments, and his policy preferences, lie.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:10:44 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3efdc764-f2ca-11dd-abe6-0000779fd2ac.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012800226.html “The Panchen Lama has become increasingly important as a symbolic figure since his death because Beijing’s policies increasingly seem focused on undoing everything he struggled for,” said Robbie Barnett, a Tibetologist at Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:50:44 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012800226.html http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/sga1173.doc.htm United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Karin Landgren of Sweden as his Deputy Special Representative for Nepal. Mr. Landgren, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, will bring to the United Nations Mission in Nepal many years of political, managerial and international law experience with the United Nations in a number of duty stations. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/sga1173.doc.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/31/AR2009013101535.html Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs labels the plan “an astounding mishmash of tax cuts, public investments, transfer payments and special treats for insiders.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/31/AR2009013101535.html http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_ADB_ASIA_ECONOMY?SITE=WIFON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute and an advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said, Asia should seize the global financial crisis as an opportunity to invest in housing, environmental cleanup, health and other development needs. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:54:44 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_ADB_ASIA_ECONOMY?SITE=WIFON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1873532,00.html Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, SIPA Board of Advisors member and Senior Fellow with the School’s Center for Conflict Resolution (CICR), has been named by President Barack Obama as special envoy to the Middle East. Aldo Civico, director of the CICR, says "Because of his experience and wisdom, Senator Mitchell can play a decisive role in stimulating ripeness for the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and advance peace in the Middle East.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1873532,00.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#scott Scott Barrett will join SIPA and the Earth Institute in the fall of 2009 as the first Lenfest Professor of Natural Resource Economics. Professor Barrett currently serves on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. His research focuses on interactions between natural and social systems, especially at the global level, and institutions that mediate between these two worlds. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:44:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#scott http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/commission/financial_commission.shtml SIPA faculty members Joseph Stiglitz and José Antonio Ocampo have been appointed to the new Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System. Professor Michael Doyle has accepted another term as chair of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:52:44 GMT http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/commission/financial_commission.shtml http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDNgxzOYJxoE&refer=home “Nothing that Obama can do can undo the damage quickly,” says Columbia University economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. “The downturn will be much deeper than it otherwise would have been” because of the missteps of President George W. Bush’s administration, Stiglitz said. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:54:44 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDNgxzOYJxoE&refer=home http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11609457&ch=4226720&src=news SIPA faculty member Joseph Stiglitz appeared on CNBC to discuss the merits of tax cuts vs. spending and Congressman Barney Frank’s proposals for TARP funds. Professor Stiglitz: “Stimulus tax cuts could be sinkhole as bad as troubled TARP.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11609457&ch=4226720&src=news http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/documents/Sachs-NYTimes-011509.pdf A study published online in The Lancet, an independent medical journal, says privatization increased the Russian death rate. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Earth Institute, disputed the study’s findings, saying “the definition of success and failure had nothing to do with rapid or not rapid” privatization. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/documents/Sachs-NYTimes-011509.pdf http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/documents/Stiglitz_WSJ-011409.pdf Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz says the lack of regulatory changes has hampered the efforts of U.S. policymakers to free up credit markets. "TARP has failed partly because of the failure to do anything about regulation," said Professor Stiglitz. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/documents/Stiglitz_WSJ-011409.pdf http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6zDrAG-SF2CBSzmktIHP44XPLbgD95L5FF00 “Obama is one of those people who was raised post-Vietnam and really came of age in the ‘80s,” says Steven Cohen, professor of public administration at Columbia University. “It’s a huge generational change, and a new kind of politics. He is trying to be a problem-solver by not getting wrapped up in the right-left ideology underlying them.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6zDrAG-SF2CBSzmktIHP44XPLbgD95L5FF00 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_8pFko0eWvhfmQXTVFR6zRM “Unless the fundamental conditions are changed—and they have not changed in the past 19 years, they have gotten worse—it’s not even worth talking about a peace process,” says Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_8pFko0eWvhfmQXTVFR6zRM http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/sipanews10.html UNICEF and six students from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs won first place in USAID’s “Development 2.0 Challenge.” The award recognizes an innovative system using mobile phones and text messages to monitor children's health in Malawi. The data empowers users to track child malnutrition trends accurately and in real time, providing a means of intervention into rapidly unfolding food and nutrition crises. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/sipanews10.html http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870268-1,00.html Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Earth Institute, writes: “We need a sensible strategy that deals with the present crisis while preparing for the future. We need more government, and to pay for it we'll need to raise taxes relative to GDP over time.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870268-1,00.html http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4643 Professor Arvind Panagariya, expert in Indian economics, writes: “As India toasts its continued economic success, it would be unwise to overlook the careful regulation of financial markets that at least partially protected it from the worst effects of the financial crisis.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4643 http://www.scowcroft.com/html/staff/scowcroft.html Former National Security Advisor and SIPA Advisory Board member General Brent Scowcroft will deliver SIPA’s 2009 graduation address on May 18. General Scowcroft served as National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he earned his MA and Ph.D. in International Relations from Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.scowcroft.com/html/staff/scowcroft.html http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanewsf08.pdf The January 2009 edition of SIPA News takes a closer look at a variety of issues affecting nations in Latin America. These issues include the global recession, climate change, free trade and income inequality. SIPA News also examines the changing relations between the U.S. and Cuba, gun violence in Brazil, and even the production of the coffee you drink in the morning. Plus, New York City employees have new opportunities to earn an advanced degree. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanewsf08.pdf http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/transnational-terror-indias-options/ “The main realistic option left to India is to massively improve security at and inside the border,” said Arvind Panagariya, in an editorial examining India’s options for dealing with terrorist attacks. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:25:00 -0500 http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/transnational-terror-indias-options/ http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9101&Itemid=132 Lincoln Mitchell co-authors with Alexander Cooley “No Way to Treat Our Friends: Recasting Recent U.S.-Georgian Relations.” The article says “Russia’s reckless decision to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia not only contravenes international law regarding sovereign statehood, but if allowed to stand, would establish the unacceptable precedent that countries can justify military intervention in the territory of a neighbor by invoking the rights of their ethnic citizens.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:04:44 GMT http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9101&Itemid=132 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sachs148/English Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor of sustainable development and director of the Earth Institute, authored an editorial for publication around the world: “At a time when the headlines are filled with financial crises and violence, it is especially important to recognize the creativity of many governments in fighting poverty, disease and hunger.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sachs148/English http://www.columbia.edu/~hhh2108/hiddenact.pdf Go with the flow. Follow the leader. Run with the herd. Do investors or other subjects mimic the decisions of their peers, such as buying or selling stock? Many government and financial leaders worry that such “herd” behavior destabilizes the markets. Professor Helios Herrera presents a paper entitled “Social Learning with a Hidden Action,” examining how a peer’s decision to invest can lead to others following suit. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:09:44 GMT http://www.columbia.edu/~hhh2108/hiddenact.pdf http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-12/obamas-green-team-who-they-are-and-whats-next "It's clear that President-elect Obama is banking on innovation as one of our solutions to our energy crisis and these choices are an indication of it," says environmental policy expert Steven A. Cohen, who is the director of SIPA’s MPA program in Environmental Science and Policy and executive director of the Earth Institute. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:46:00 -0500 http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-12/obamas-green-team-who-they-are-and-whats-next http://www.indianexpress.com/story_print.php?storyid=398860 Following the Mumbai terror attacks, politicians, pundits and the press have created many myths, confusions and falsehoods. In an article authored by Professor Arvind Panagariya, the myths “deserve to be exposed in favor of clearer thinking.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.indianexpress.com/story_print.php?storyid=398860 http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/415/index.html Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs congratulates alumna Na Eng (MIA ‘99) on winning a 2008 Emmy Award for business and financial reporting. Ms. Eng won the Emmy for her segment entitled “Taxing the Poor,” presented on the program NOW on PBS. The segment focuses on state tax policies and the working poor, and the impact on three families in Alabama. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:09:44 GMT http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/415/index.html http://www.growthcommission.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=169 SIPA’s Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) presents a panel discussion on “The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development,” released in October from the Commission on Growth Development. The panel discussion featured two members of the Commission, Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate and MIT Professor Emeritus, and Danny Leipziger, Vice-President of the World Bank. Columbia professors Jagdish Bhagwati and Guillermo Calvo hosted the guests and provided comments and discussion. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:04:44 GMT http://www.growthcommission.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=169 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7b29a13e-c22a-11dd-a350-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F7b29a13e-c22a-11dd-a350-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sipa.columbia.edu%2Fnews_events%2Ffaculty_in_media%2Ffacultynews08.html&nclick_check=1 Guillermo Calvo, director of SIPA’s Program in Economic Policy Management and former chief economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, said Latin America is suffering what economists call a “sudden stop” of credit flows. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7b29a13e-c22a-11dd-a350-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F7b29a13e-c22a-11dd-a350-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sipa.columbia.edu%2Fnews_events%2Ffaculty_in_media%2Ffacultynews08.html&nclick_check=1 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/12/03/tijuana-police-chief-fired-after-bloody-weekend/3054/ “Is the Mexican police force up to the job of combating this violence? No, and it never really has been.” Rodolfo de la Garza, professor of political science and an expert on Latino political behavior and immigration, speaks with host Martin Savidge on the firing of Tijuana’s police chief and the deaths of hundreds of people amid drug-related violence. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/12/03/tijuana-police-chief-fired-after-bloody-weekend/3054/ http://www.sipa-empa.com/sipa2/empa_frameset.htm Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) announces a new program to provide employees of New York City with expanded opportunities for executive education. SIPA will provide fellowship support to a small number of the most competitive and promising applicants from among the City’s vast pool of talent, beginning with the class that enters in the fall of 2009. Fellowships will range from partial to full support, depending on the number of applicants admitted to the fellowship program. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:47:44 GMT http://www.sipa-empa.com/sipa2/empa_frameset.htm http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14528.html In his new book, “Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia’s Rose Revolution,” Professor Lincoln Mitchell recounts the events that led to the overthrow of President Eduard Shevardnadz and analyzes the factors that contributed to the staying power of the new regime. He also explores the modest but indispensable role of the United States in contributing to the Rose Revolution and Georgia's failure to live up to its democratic promise. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14528.html http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtmll Arvind Panagariya, professor of Indian political economy, comments on the economic cost of the Mumbai tragedy, extrapolating from 9/11 and New York City. “Several factors suggest that the effects of the Mumbai attacks, though devastating for far too many families at the personal level, will be less significant than those of the 9/11 attacks.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtmll http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=2866 Albert Fishlow, Professor Emeritus at the School of International and Public Affairs, says Barack Obama's presidency, despite his campaign's modest concern with Latin America, will inevitably give greater weight to the region than has been true in recent years. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=2866 http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanewsf08.pdf#brazilanstudies Jorge Paulo Lemann, a Brazilian entrepreneur, has pledged $3 million to Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, to facilitate exchange and study between Columbia University and Brazil. The gift will be used to establish the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). The endowment will fund fellowships and grants for Brazilian students to study at Columbia University, and for Columbia students to study in Brazil. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:41:46 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanewsf08.pdf#brazilanstudies http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/JosephStiglitzLincCenFilmSoc.pdf Nobel Laureate and SIPA professor Joseph Stiglitz will join the Lincoln Center Film Society on December 3 to answer questions following a 7 p.m. screening of Jacques Sarasin’s new travelogue. The documentary follows Professor Stiglitz as he studies the perils and promises of the increasingly international economy. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/JosephStiglitzLincCenFilmSoc.pdf http://seedmagazine.com/stateofscience/sos_fundamental_publicperception_p1.html Professor and journalist Claudia Dreifus addresses the public’s perceptions of science and scientists: “Some of the political problems the scientific community encountered in the past decade had to do with scientists not getting out into the public square to tell their stories.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://seedmagazine.com/stateofscience/sos_fundamental_publicperception_p1.html http://www.tnr.com/article/red-herring Why did Russia really invade Georgia? James P. Rubin, SIPA professor and former Assistant Secretary of State, writes that Russia’s foreign minister said it was his nation’s “responsibility to protect” South Ossetia from genocide. The principle arose from the world’s failure to stop genocide in Rwanda, and was endorsed by the U.N. Security Council in 2006. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.tnr.com/article/red-herring http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/best-leaders/2008/11/19/americas-best-leaders-jeffrey-sachs-columbia-university-economist.html Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University says “What I've learned on the ground is that poor people face very specific, very practical problems that have very specific and very practical solutions that don't reach these communities because they're too poor to undertake them on their own.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/best-leaders/2008/11/19/americas-best-leaders-jeffrey-sachs-columbia-university-economist.html http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/economy/g20_powerplay/ Irene Finel-Honigman, international affairs professor specializing in international banking, says “The Europeans see themselves as taking a position equal to the U.S. We're looking at a different composition of players and a different powerplay.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:48:00 -0500 http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/economy/g20_powerplay/ http://www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMediaODP.aframe?bitrate=low&id=312039&ListType=nyheder&location=udland&uri=http%3A//www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMediaODP.aframe Steve Hammer, SIPA’s Urban Energy Program director, appeared on the Danish public television program “Deadline 22:30.” Hammer was attending a conference in Copenhagen where he spoke on PlaNYC, a plan for the sustainability of New York City. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:54:44 GMT http://www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMediaODP.aframe?bitrate=low&id=312039&ListType=nyheder&location=udland&uri=http%3A//www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMediaODP.aframe http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/dinkinss-advice-for-obama/ David N. Dinkins, former mayor of New York City and professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, watched the election results on a Jumbotron screen on 125th Street in Harlem in the midst of a large gathering of Obama supporters. On whether he thought a black president would take office so soon he said: “…to have Obama succeed, and succeed in the way he has—this was a blowout—was amazing. I’m surprised, delightfully so.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/dinkinss-advice-for-obama/ http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Betty SIPA congratulates 2004 MPA alum and adjunct professor Betty Wu Adams on her new position with the federal government. Ms. Adams will re-join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grants. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:09:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Betty http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Siv SIPA alumnus, Ambassador Sichan Siv, shared excerpts from his life story, Golden Bones, at a reading and book-signing event at Teachers College. His journey chronicles the hardships he experienced under the Pol Pot communist regime, his eventual arrival in the United States and nomination as Ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:55:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Siv http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aK_JI1LqziOg&refer=home World leaders, facing financial markets in turmoil and the possibility of global recession, will discuss ways to fix the crisis at a summit meeting in Washington next month. Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute in New York and a longtime adviser on economic and fiscal issues to governments worldwide, said the leaders' first goal should be to mitigate the effects of a global recession. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aK_JI1LqziOg&refer=home http://cnnmoney.mlogic.mobi/money/archive/archive/detail/100177/full Members of Congress, fiscal experts and Wall Street lobbyists gathered this week to discuss ways to change regulation of the finance industry to shore up its foundations and prevent future crises. Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University who won a Nobel Prize in 2001 on the subject of market transparency, testified that the "trickle-down economics" of bailing out Wall Street should be accompanied by a "comprehensive recovery program" to prevent further problems. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://cnnmoney.mlogic.mobi/money/archive/archive/detail/100177/full http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=asia&sid=a2RXhtO4qIlc China's economy probably expanded at the slowest pace in almost four years in the third quarter, adding pressure for interest-rate cuts and government spending to prevent a slump. “If China continues to have rapid economic growth, that will hold up overall global growth so we won't have a generalized recession,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute in New York. “If China were to tumble downwards, then we'd see a much more massive crisis.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=asia&sid=a2RXhtO4qIlc http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/10/10/bush-to-meet-g7-to-discuss-market-turmoil/1796/ Sharyn O’Halloran, professor of political science at Columbia University, speaks with Martin Savidge about the difficulty of coordinating international banking efforts, pointing out that many international agreements have not worked in the past. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/10/10/bush-to-meet-g7-to-discuss-market-turmoil/1796/ http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/jao2128-fac.html On September 18, 2008, José Antonio Ocampo, the new director of the Economic and Political Development (EPD) concentration at SIPA, was honored in Barranquilla, Colombia by FENADECO, the National Association of Students of Economics. This year, Ocampo was selected as a recipient of the award for his academic achievements and contributions to the field of development economics. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:40:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/jao2128-fac.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/sipanews6.html A newly designed graduate degree program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and up to 12 other universities around the world in the coming three years will prepare aspiring professionals to help address the complex social and scientific challenges of sustainable development. The two-year Master of Public Administration in Development Practice (MDP) program at Columbia University will be the first MDP program to be offered anywhere in the world and will begin in the fall of 2009 with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Study for the degree will include a rigorous core curriculum emphasizing practical, cross-disciplinary knowledge from the health, natural, and social sciences with a strong focus on training for leadership and management. Students will also reach out of their traditional classrooms to engage in intensive field training experiences. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:44:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/sipanews6.html http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/viewing-georgia-without-the-rose-colored-glasses/?scp=1&sq=Lincoln%20Mitchell&st=cse Byline: Lincoln Mitchell, professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Russia’s aggression toward Georgia, which greatly exceeded what was necessary to achieve its stated goals, and Moscow’s continuing efforts to weaken and destabilize Georgia, make it clear that Russia is a real threat to several U.S. allies. From Azerbaijan to Latvia, the Kremlin’s actions have been duly noted. The next American administration will confront the fallout of this war and face a hard challenge: It is not possible to craft Georgia policy without looking at the broader U.S.-Russia policy, while it is not possible to craft a broader U.S.-Russia policy without recognizing the role the U.S. plays in creating tension between Russia and Georgia. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:10:00 -0500 http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/viewing-georgia-without-the-rose-colored-glasses/?scp=1&sq=Lincoln%20Mitchell&st=cse http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-rubin/the-politics-of-war-mccai_b_128908.html Byline: James Rubin, professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The McCain campaign is fond of citing the candidate's prominent role in public debates over foreign policy through the years. But John McCain's regular TV appearances have also made it wickedly easy to track his inconsistencies and erratic statements on key issues of war and peace. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:43:00 -0500 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-rubin/the-politics-of-war-mccai_b_128908.html http://www.nysun.com/opinion/americas-anti-intellectual-threat/86382/ Byline: Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics and the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. While many factors contributed to America’s destabilizing actions, a powerful one is anti-intellectualism, exemplified recently by Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s surging popularity. By anti-intellectualism, I mean especially an aggressively anti-scientific perspective, backed by disdain for those who adhere to science and evidence. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nysun.com/opinion/americas-anti-intellectual-threat/86382/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122204410494661493.html “The markets are going to have to look very closely at the substance of what these proposals do and not only their effect on the budget,” says Richard Clarida, an economics professor at Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122204410494661493.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Bloomgarden Equator Environmental, LLC appointed SIPA alum Eron Bloomgarden as President of its Environmental Markets Group. Bloomgarden, who previously served as Ecosecurities’ US Country Director and managed the firms US operations, joins Equator to lead and manage all aspects of its environmental markets business. Bloomgarden will focus on carbon opportunities related to Equator’s US and International carbon investments, the development of opportunities related to Latin American timber business, as well as expansion of Equator’s activities to include additional carbon project types. Equator Environmental, LLC specializes in the generation and management of high quality carbon credits and environmental assets derived from reforestation projects, forest conservation and sustainable land management. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:36:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Bloomgarden http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1926280020080919 Sharyn O’Halloran, a professor of political science at Columbia University, said the government action addressed the short-term liquidity crisis as well as the medium term problem of dealing with bad assets. “On the longer term regulatory structure issue, there’s no strategic thought or plan in place and that’s really what’s problematic,” O’Halloran said. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1926280020080919 http://www.newsweek.com/id/160053 Lincoln Mitchell, a Georgia expert and Columbia University professor, says “Georgian democracy suffers from having no real line between state and party, and while it has made great economic strides under President Mikheil Saakashvili, he has never created a meaningful judiciary, has weakened the legislature and has centralized executive power.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.newsweek.com/id/160053 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&refer=home&sid=aXRPsaQU9ybY Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor, said that the haphazard nature of the bailouts may discourage investors from putting money in the U.S. because it increases uncertainty about who will survive and who will fail. “We used to believe that America was a country or a government that was based on the rule of law,” Stiglitz says. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&refer=home&sid=aXRPsaQU9ybY http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0916/p17s01-lign.html Lisa Anderson, former dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, says that despite a few cases of visiting Muslim students being appalled by what they see as a decadent United States, most have a positive experience. “They tell stories for the rest of their lives about their host families, their classmates, roommates, faculty, and even ordinary people who went out of their way for them,” Dr. Anderson says. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0916/p17s01-lign.html http://www.nysun.com/new-york/congestion-pricing-is-popular-among-ideas/85907/ Luicius Riccio, a professor at Columbia, said that the city should consider selling the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges for $1 to the MTA, which could then charge tolls on commuters and use the revenue to finance mass transit improvements. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nysun.com/new-york/congestion-pricing-is-popular-among-ideas/85907/ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html#sc Whereas Obama appeared to take the long road to selecting a VP, naming a committee that included Caroline Kennedy, McCain by contrast "appears like he was a student cramming at the last minute for an exam," said Steven Cohen, a professor of public administration at Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html#sc http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090702424.html The White House plans to formally pull from Congressional consideration an agreement with Russia for civilian nuclear cooperation, perhaps as soon as today, Bush administration sources said over the weekend. Stephen Sestanovich, a Columbia University professor who handled Russian affairs in the Clinton administration, said the agreement is “dead in this Congress, but a new administration will have a look.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090702424.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122084614111309491.html Lincoln Mitchell, a professor at Columbia who specializes in Georgian politics, said the establishment of a new party in the country would be a positive step toward furthering democracy there. “Georgia is effectively a one-and-a-half party system,” he said, noting the government is dominated by the United National Movement. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122084614111309491.html http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK19832520080906 The death of Taktser Rinpoche marked more than the passing of a major figure from the heyday of the Tibetan independence movement because it comes amid growing concern about the Dalai Lama's health and the diminishing possibility of any negotiated settlement of the Tibet issue. "His death is likely to add a much-needed sense of urgency and seriousness to the dialogue process between China and the exiles," said Robbie Barnett, a Tibet expert at Columbia University in New York. sipaevents@columbia.edu Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:28:00 -0400 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK19832520080906 http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/02/stories/2008090256571000.htm As Sanjay Reddy of Columbia University notes, “a human being could not live in the US on $1.25 a day in 2005 (or $1.40 in 2008), nor therefore on an equivalent amount elsewhere.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/02/stories/2008090256571000.htm http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Nissen David Nissen, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), has been nominated as a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics (USAEE). The prestigious Fellow Award is given to individuals who have exemplified distinguished service in the field of energy economics and/or the USAEE. Professor Nissen is also the Director of the Program in International Energy Management and Policy at Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy at Columbia. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:30:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#Nissen http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/audio/Dorian_Warren_8-25-08.mp3 Assistant Professor Dorian Warren comments on Obama's selection of Joe Biden as his running mate. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/audio/Dorian_Warren_8-25-08.mp3 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#OPC Aaron Clark, a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship at the Foundation’s annual Scholarship Luncheon held at the Yale Club in New York City. Clark was among 12 finalists selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of applicants from 65 different colleges and universities. His winning essay described conditions in Myanmar, where the ruling junta maintains its power through a brutal mix of fear, incompetence and poverty. Clark was the winner of the Roy Rowan Scholarship, named for the legendary Time Inc. bureau chief. The OPC Foundation is the nation’s largest and most visible scholarship program encouraging aspiring journalists to pursue careers as foreign correspondents. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:29:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/index.html#OPC http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/science/19conv.html?_r=2&oref=slogin Byline: Claudia Dreifus, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Dr. Fedoroff, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, did fundamental research on plant transposons, or jumping genes, and was among the first to clone plant DNA. She is science adviser to the secretary of state and administrator of the Agency for International Development. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/science/19conv.html?_r=2&oref=slogin http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/global/mitchell.html Lincoln Mitchell, Arnold A. Saltzman Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics with Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs was not surprised by Russia's military invasion of South Ossetia, a breakaway province within the country. He was surprised, however, by Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili's decision to send in the Georgian Army to reclaim South Ossetia, a main goal of his re-election platform earlier this year, on August 7. To view the full interview and video of Lincoln Mitchell by Columbia News please click here. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/global/mitchell.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-rubin/ithe-politics-of-wari-tre_b_118763.html Byline: James Rubin, adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. “If Russia had continued its military assault all the way to Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, and overthrown the democratically elected government, as many feared a couple of days ago, this crisis would indeed have overshadowed almost everything else on the foreign policy agenda. A great power invading and occupying a neighbor over the objections of the rest of the civilized world would have been both an outrage and a world-historical event.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:11:00 -0500 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-rubin/ithe-politics-of-wari-tre_b_118763.html http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/369709.html Byline: Lincoln Mitchell, the Arnold A. Saltzman assistant professor of international politics at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. “If the hostilities continue and the conflicts continue for more than a few days, Georgia’s future and sovereignty may well be jeopardized. This is precisely what Russia has wanted since Mikheil Saakashvili committed to building a strong, independent and Western oriented Georgia in 2004.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:06:44 GMT http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/369709.html http://online.wsj.com/public/page/8_0006.html?bcpid=86195573&bclid=86272812&bctid=1716487834 “Russia is trying to send a strong message here. That message is, ‘we Russia are going to continue what we want in this sphere of influence, witness what we are doing in Georgia,’” says Columbia University professor Lincoln Mitchell. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:06:44 GMT http://online.wsj.com/public/page/8_0006.html?bcpid=86195573&bclid=86272812&bctid=1716487834 http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/08/11/ldt.intv.russia.roundtable.cnn “We’ve heard some strong talk and I think strong words are necessary but far from sufficient in this conflict,” says Lincoln Mitchell, the Arnold A. Saltzman assistant professor of international politics at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:06:44 GMT http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/08/11/ldt.intv.russia.roundtable.cnn http://www1.economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3353562,flstry-1.cms “During the latest negotiations, approximately 75 developing countries tabled a proposal under which larger developing countries will have the authority to raise tariffs on 7 percent of agricultural products by 30 percent of the UR [Uruguay Round] bound rates or 30 percentage points, whichever is larger, in response to a 10 percent expansion of imports. . . Though the United States categorically opposes this and other similar proposals. . . there are at least three reasons why the developing countries have a strong case for a generous SSM [Special Safeguard Mechanism],” said Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, International and Public Affairs and Economics at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. sipaevents@columbia.edu Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:26:00 -0500 http://www1.economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3353562,flstry-1.cms http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/08/russia-georgia “The real issue is whether we begin to think about Russia in a fundamentally different way. The issue is whether we begin to think of Russia as a challenger, a disturber to European order,” says Stephen Sestanovich, professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/08/russia-georgia http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_War_At_Home_Unity_Nationalism_And_Bravado/1190003.html Lincoln Mitchell, a professor of international politics specializing in Georgia at Columbia University in New York, says “Georgia's newfound unity—and the government's embrace of Western-style civic patriotism—could be short-lived if the conflict drags on. The more Saakashvili's government feels its very survival at stake, Mitchell says, the more likely it will be that they appeal to old-school nationalism.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_War_At_Home_Unity_Nationalism_And_Bravado/1190003.html http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/08/11.php “Tensions between Russia and Georgia have been going on for awhile. Small skirmishes between the two lead up to Saakashvili sending troops into South Ossetia last Thursday,” says Lincoln Mitchell assistant professor in the Practice of International Politics at Columbia University. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/08/11.php http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93436232&ft=1&f=1004 Georgia’s offensive to retake South Ossetia has spurred a strong Russian military response. Lincoln Mitchell, assistant professor in the Practice of International Politics at Columbia University, says “a war may have started, but it remains to be seen if it can be stopped.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:40:44 GMT http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93436232&ft=1&f=1004 http://www.amazon.com/American-Political-Development-Joseph-Lowndes/dp/041596153X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218115850&sr=1-2 SIPA Assistant Professor Dorian Warren has edited a new volume titled Race and American Political Development, along with co-editors Joe Lowndes and Julie Novkov. This volume, the first to collect essays on the role of race in American political history and development, resituates race in American politics as an issue for sustained and broadened critical scholarly research and action. Race has been present at every critical moment in political development in the United States, shaping political institutions, discourse, public policy and its denizens' political identities. Covering more than three hundred years of American political history, the volume provides an understanding of American politics that challenges the conventional disciplinary tools of studying politics and the conservative political moment's dominant narrative of racial progress. sipaevents@columbia.edu Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.amazon.com/American-Political-Development-Joseph-Lowndes/dp/041596153X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218115850&sr=1-2 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/july-dec08/georgiaclash_08-08.html “To think of this as a conflict between South Ossetia breaking away from Georgia, I think, leaves Russia out of it in a way that's not entirely accurate. Russia is a party to this and is a player in this,” says Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University professor. sipaevents@columbia.edu Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/july-dec08/georgiaclash_08-08.html http://slate.msn.com/id/2196909/?from=rss There are winners and losers for every major change in the global economy, and it stands to reason that some poor farmers will find a way to profit from inflation. Columbia University economist Sanjay Reddy says, “A few may have only to walk down the road and sell their produce for a lower price than people are paying.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://slate.msn.com/id/2196909/?from=rss http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-05-tibet_N.htm?csp=34 Tibet exists “under a cloud of uncertainty, it’s in a shadow world where we don’t know what’s going on,” says Robbie Barnett, an expert on Tibet at Columbia University. Normal life “on the surface is picking up in terms of business and institutions, even though there are very few tourists,” says Barnett. “But from information leaking out very slowly, there are a significant number of people who have disappeared or are in prison.” sipaevents@columbia.edu Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:30:00 -0500 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-05-tibet_N.htm?csp=34 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/sipanews4.html A workshop in the International Finance and Policy concentration at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) recently partnered with the Congressional Research Service (CRS), to examine trends in retiree health insurance benefits received pursuant to public-sector collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). Under the guidance of Professor Michael Silverman, the four-member SIPA team analyzed 84 CBAs and conducted interviews with retiree health benefit experts, union officials and employer representatives. sipaevents@columbia.edu Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/sipanews4.html