Feed Editor (Unlicensed) 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT Events at SIPA, Faculty News, and Faculty in the News http://sipa.columbia.edu/ SIPA, Columbia University Education en-us sipa-webmaster@columbia.edu People and communities who understand their property rights are usually more empowered to defend them. In a SIPA Capstone Workshop, a student team traveled to Uganda to develop a system intended to track the progress of the Women's Land, Housing and Property Rights Project. The project is attempting to empower and educate women about their rights with respect to land, housing and property ownership. 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Professor Mitchell commented on President Saakashvili’s relationship with the United States, saying "In some ways, he's the last neocon standing." 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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).” 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html In a paper co-authored by Professor Douglas Almond, research indicates that people exposed to the H1N1 strain of influenza while in the uterus, were at a higher risk for a heart attack later in life. The research focuses on people born just after the 1918 flu pandemic. The paper was published in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html Adjunct Professor Claudia Dreifus interviewed Carol W. Greider, one of three women to win a science Nobel Prize in 2009. 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 28 Oct 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Professor Jeffrey Sachs writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "The G-20 forces the U.S. political system to grapple with problems that it has dangerously sidestepped for 30 years. ... The G-20 is important for the United States because the rest of the world is pushing for real answers to these problems." 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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.” 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html Professor Sick comments on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United Nations: "My view is that Ahmadinejad is not really in charge of anything. I've concluded that talking to him is like talking to a wall." 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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." 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 10 Oct 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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. September 21 at 4 p.m. 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. September 21 at 5 p.m. 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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.” 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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." 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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." 18 Sept 2009 11:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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. 12 Sep 2009 1:25:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 12 Sep 2009 1:25:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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." 12 Sep 2009 1:25:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 4 Sept 2009 4:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 4 Sept 2009 4:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 4 Sept 2009 4:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 4 Sept 2009 4:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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. 28 Aug 2009 8:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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." 28 Aug 2009 8:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 25 Aug 2009 5:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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." 14 Aug 2009 7:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 14 Aug 2009 7:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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." 14 Aug 2009 7:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html Professor Stiglitz said in an interview on Bloomberg TV that a replacement is “something we ought to consider,” without suggesting alternative candidates. 14 Aug 2009 7:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 14 Aug 2009 7:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 7 Aug 2009 7:16:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 7 Aug 2009 7:16:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 31 July 2009 6:17:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html The Office of Admissions is offering a unique way to get to know new students—through their photography. SIPA's call for photos has brought in incredible images from around the globe, from Tibet to South Africa, Peru to New York City. 31 July 2009 6:17:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 31 July 2009 6:17:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 31 July 2009 6:17:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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.” 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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?” 24 July 2009 5:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 17 July 2009 1:33:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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." 17 July 2009 1:33:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 17 July 2009 1:33:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 17 July 2009 1:33:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 17 July 2009 1:33:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 14 July 2009 6:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Dean John Coatsworth comments on the leadership crisis in Honduras. In a podcast, Dean Coatsworth says, “The Honduran military is generally called upon to act as police when elections are held, to make sure there is no violence or disturbances. So the president was within his powers to sack the head of the armed forces, when he refused to carry out a presidential order." 14 July 2009 6:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 14 July 2009 6:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 14 July 2009 6:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 14 July 2009 6:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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." 14 July 2009 6:12:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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." 19 June 2009 4:30:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 19 June 2009 4:30:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 18 June 2009 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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." 18 June 2009 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 18 June 2009 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 18 June 2009 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 18 June 2009 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 18 June 2009 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 11 June 2009 1:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 11 June 2009 1:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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." 9 June 2009 11:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 9 June 2009 11:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 9 June 2009 11:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 9 June 2009 11:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 9 June 2009 11:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 6 June 2009 12:25:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 2 June 2009 12:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 2 June 2009 12:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 2 June 2009 12:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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.” 2 June 2009 12:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 2 June 2009 12:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 29 Mar 2009 8:47:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 29 Mar 2009 8:47:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 29 Mar 2009 8:47:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 29 Mar 2009 8:47:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 22 Mar 2009 2:03:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 22 Mar 2009 2:03:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 22 Mar 2009 2:03:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 20 May 2009 3:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 20 May 2009 3:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 20 May 2009 3:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 20 May 2009 3:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html Professor Sachs touches on the potential of the swine flu, the federal bailouts and several basic themes of his book “Common Wealth.” 20 May 2009 3:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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) 20 May 2009 3:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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. 14 May 2009 1:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presented “The Obama Administration Faces Afghanistan,” a forum at Columbia University. 14 May 2009 1:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 14 May 2009 1:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 14 May 2009 1:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 14 May 2009 1:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html 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. 14 May 2009 1:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 14 May 2009 1:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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?” 5 May 2009 11:52:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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." 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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.” 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html 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." 28 Apr 2009 12:01:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media/index.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. 28 Apr 2009 10:21:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 28 Apr 2009 10:21:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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 on both sides.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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." 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu 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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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) 22 Apr 2009 5:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 3 Apr 2009 9:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 3 Apr 2009 9:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 3 Apr 2009 9:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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." 3 Apr 2009 9:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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." 3 Apr 2009 9:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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." 3 Apr 2009 9:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Arvind Panagariya, the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, writes in Forbes “…international trade has been rapidly shrinking in the wake of the U.S. financial crisis and protectionist measures are creeping into the national economies. Both developments pose a threat to faster recovery and long-term growth prospects. The G-20 must address them head on when they meet in London.” 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 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. 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 27 Mar 2009 5:45:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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." 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 12 Mar 2009 1:11:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 4 Mar 2009 2:41:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html 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. 4 Mar 2009 2:23:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 25 Feb 2009 9:59:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 25 Feb 2009 9:59:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 19 Feb 2009 5:30:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 19 Feb 2009 5:30:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 19 Feb 2009 5:30:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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.” 11 Feb 2009 10:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 10 Feb 2009 2:31:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html 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. 10 Feb 2009 2:31:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news.html Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs labels the plan “an astounding mishmash of tax cuts, public investments, transfer payments and special treats for insiders.” 5 Feb 2009 10:50:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at Columbia University said that “the private sector doesn’t have the proper incentives to fix the banking system.” The taxpayers “have put all the capital into most of the banks,” but the banks “are not running them for our interest,” he said. 5 Feb 2009 10:50:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 5 Feb 2009 10:50:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html A Brazilian entrepreneur has donated $3 million to Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) to facilitate student exchange. The gift will be used to establish the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund, and will provide fellowships and grants for Brazilian students to study at SIPA, and for SIPA students to study in Brazil. 2 Feb 2009 9:52:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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.” 28 Jan 2009 10:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html “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. 27 Jan 2009 10:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “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.” 27 Jan 2009 10:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “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. 27 Jan 2009 10:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 27 Jan 2009 10:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 22 Jan 2009 4:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 22 Jan 2009 4:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 22 Jan 2009 4:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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). 20 Jan 2009 2:52:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 20 Jan 2009 2:52:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 20 Jan 2009 2:52:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 9 Jan 2009 5:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 9 Jan 2009 5:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html In an editorial in the Economic Times of India, Arvind Panagariya examines India’s options for dealing with terrorist attacks. He writes: “…tightening security from the current, extremely lax levels offers considerable scope for preventing many though not all potential attacks, and for capping the loss of life when attacks do actually happen.” 8 Jan 2009 4:50:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html “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. 5 Jan 2009 4:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 5 Jan 2009 4:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 23 Dec 2008 10:07:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 23 Dec 2008 10:07:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 22 Dec 2008 11:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 18 Dec 2008 2:09:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html "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. 18 Dec 2008 2:09:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 11 Dec 2008 1:09:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html “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. 9 Dec 2008 12:29:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 5 Dec 2008 4:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 5 Dec 2008 4:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 2 Dec 2008 4:47:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 1 Dec 2008 3:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 24 November 2008 1:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 21 November 2008 12:41:46 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 20 November 2008 1:37:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 14 November 2008 4:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 12 November 2008 1:54:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 12 November 2008 11:17:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 11 November 2008 2:05:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 11 November 2008 2:05:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 6 November 2008 5:09:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 30 October 2008 4:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 24 October 2008 3:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 24 October 2008 3:42:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 23 October 2008 4:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 23 October 2008 4:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 23 October 2008 4:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 2 October 2008 4:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 1 October 2008 3:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 30 September 2008 2:32:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 30 September 2008 2:13:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: James Rubin, professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The McCain campaign has certainly been clear about what diplomacy would look like in a McCain-Palin administration. Either you are in McCain’s club of friendly nations or you are not. The McCain camp is living in the past, still thinking that the diplomatic leverage of a White Hose visit or meeting is so overwhelming that the other countries will bow to our will. Such a view is simplistic, old-thinking that will not serve the American national interest. 30 September 2008 2:13:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 30 September 2008 2:13:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 30 September 2008 2:13:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 30 September 2008 2:13:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 22 September 2008 5:36:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 22 September 2008 5:36:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 22 September 2008 5:36:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 22 September 2008 5:36:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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. 22 September 2008 5:36:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Columbia University Professor Saeed Shafqat discusses the challenges facing Pakistan’s new president Asif Ali Zardari and the state of U.S.-Pakistan relations. 22 September 2008 5:36:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 9 September 2008 5:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 9 September 2008 5:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 9 September 2008 5:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 9 September 2008 5:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 9 September 2008 5:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 9 September 2008 5:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 9 September 2008 5:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “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. 3 September 2008 10:56:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 27 August 2008 12:30:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Assistant Professor Dorian Warren comments on Obama's selection of Joe Biden as his running mate. 25 August 2008 4:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/index.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. 22 August 2008 5:20:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html The New York State Wide Coalition of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce (NYSWCHCC) partnered with a Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs workshop team in spring 2008 to research questions surrounding immigrant businesses, entrepreneurship, and selected labor markets in Queens, New York. The students surveyed Korean-American business owners in Flushing and Latino business owners in Jackson Heights. Their final report included recommendations on how NYSWCHCC could help its members strengthen their businesses and realize their full potential. 22 August 2008 5:20:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.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. 20 August 2008 4:29:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 20 August 2008 4:29:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html “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. 13 August 2008 1:06:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “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. 13 August 2008 1:06:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “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. 13 August 2008 1:06:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 13 August 2008 1:06:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “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. 13 August 2008 1:06:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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.” 13 August 2008 1:06:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.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. 13 August 2008 1:06:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 11 August 2008 1:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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. 8 August 2008 1:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html 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.” 8 August 2008 1:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html 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.” 8 August 2008 1:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. “The surge of world food prices this year came like a bolt out of the blue, but warning lights were in fact flashing. Imbalances of global food supply and demand had been building for years beneath the public view.” 8 August 2008 1:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “Neither side wants to show that it is losing face, or that it is caving in or appeasing the other side, but both sides are interested in finding a way out of this conundrum,” says Gary Sick, professor at Columbia University. 24 July 2008 9:21:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Scheduled for official launch on July 16 at the National Press Club in DC, The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 is the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. The project, which is funded by Oxfam America, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, with additional funding from the Annenberg Foundation, is a 'nonpartisan, independent effort to introduce to America a well-honed international approach and tool for measuring human well-being – the human development approach and the human development index.' 22 July 2008 11:41:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: James Rubin, professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “The more Iranians see the real America, rather than the propaganda version portrayed in their reactionary media, the more they will push for democratic rights at home and moderate behavior abroad. This is where our diplomats come in. The main purpose of sending them to Iran would be to simplify travel for Iranians to the United States.” 16 July 2008 3:19:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html As part of the spring 2008 workshops at SIPA, a team of seven MPA students worked with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) on the agency’s goal to create a performance management system. Under the guidance of SIPA Professor William Eimicke, who is the current FDNY Commissioner of Strategy and Planning, the students divided themselves into teams according to the three benchmarks that the FDNY leadership asked them to investigate. From January to April 2008, the students looked at: determining the value of property lost in NYC due to fire and water damage, developing a customer service measurement program for the EMS division of the FDNY, and preparing definitions for lives saved/rescued. 3 July 2008 1:50:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html SIPA Alumna Lan Yang (MIA ’96) has joined forces with National All-Women’s Federation and the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund to provide support for children orphaned by the massive May 12th earthquake in Sichuan province. The death toll from the earthquake has already surpassed 65,000, leaving behind thousands of children without parental support. The aim of the new CCTF fund is to provide immediate disaster relief as well as to prepare for the long-term support and educational needs of children in the affected area. Lan Yang has been active in China’s growing nonprofit world for several years. In 1999 and 2001, Ms. Yang was named by Asiaweek magazine as one of the "leaders in society and culture in Asia" and one of the "movers and shapers of 21st-century China." Ms. Yang also received the Chinese Women of the Year award in 2001 and the Top Ten Woman Entrepreneurs award in 2002. In 2005, she founded Sun Culture Foundation with a mission to promote the relief of poverty, advancement of education, and understandings across civilizations. The China Children and Teenagers’ Fund was established in 1981 and is one of the leading charitable organizations of China. For more than 20 years, the CCTF has supported the education and welfare of Chinese children, in particular children from ethnic minorities or in remote rural areas. Alumni who want to assist with Ms. Yang’s efforts can donate to China Children and Teenagers' Fund (Zhong Guo Er Tong Shao Nian Ji Jin Hui) with a note for the "Orphan’s Relief for Wen Chuan Earthquake." Information on the organization and instructions for wiring donations is available at www.cctf.org.cn or via Miss Teressa Yan (Country Code: 86-13810572249). 2 July 2008 12:23:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html SIPA alumna Toby Graff (MPA 1998) has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Corporate Communications at Lifetime Networks. Graff, who has been with Lifetime since 2002, will take on additional oversight of the corporate communications department, including trade and business media relations for all Lifetime Networks' properties and initiatives. She will continue to lead Lifetime's 'Emmy(R) Award-winning awareness and advocacy campaigns.' These include content on myLifetime.com, community outreach, and legislative advocacy and programming. She will also continue to remain as supervisor of the Networks' corporate giving and participation in industry and charitable events. 26 June 2008 11:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html SIPA Alumna Liz Cullen (MPA 1990) has been named the new Executive Director of the Women Presidents’ Educational Organization (WPEO). Liz will be responsible for managing programs, outreach, and staff in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area. Previously, Liz had been WPEO Regional Director of Certification, overseeing certification services and outreach as well as fund-raising in the New York Region. The WPEO (wpeo.us) is ‘a regional affiliate of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s leading advocate of women-owned businesses and third party certification organization.’ 25 June 2008 10:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Tibet has largely dropped off the Western radar since China’s devastating earthquake last month. But the tragedy hasn’t stopped the government from continuing its hard-line policies toward the Tibetan region. Robert Barnett, a Tibet specialist at Columbia University said, “Beijing has stepped up its campaign to make Tibetans denounce the Dalai Lama.” 20 June 2008 2:48:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Crissie Ferrara, MIA, is currently a Fellow for Peace in El Salvador working with the advocacy group CEMUJER and with the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) to prevent gun violence against women. CEMUJER was founded in 1990 as a response to the discrimination of women and other human rights violations that were based on gender. It has also formed a collaboration of government agencies and the media, known as the First Association of Women, in order to promote tolerance and respect for women's rights. CEMUJER is an internationally and nationally recognized feminist organization that contributes to the strengthening of the human rights of women, children, and adolescents though the institution of effective programs, the defense and promotion of the public, the prevention of gender violence, training and empowerment. 20 June 2008 2:48:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html On Thursday, June 13, 2008, at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Working in Support of Education (w!se) announced the prizewinners of the 2008 Quality of Life Competition. More than 400 New York City public high school students submitted proposals for consideration this year. The Quality of Life Awards Ceremony honors student excellence in generating innovative ideas to improve life in New York City. Since 1996, more than 16,000 students have participated in QL. Through the QL Scholarship Competition, which comprises a five-step judging process, more than $400,000 in scholarships and implementation grants have been awarded to students. 16 June 2008 11:57:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Columbia SIPA alumnus Berhane Deressa (BA 1971, MIA 1972) is an extraordinary man. After a career serving his native Ethiopia with stints at the United Nations, Work Bank, and in various senior government ministry posts, Deressa was asked in 2005 by parliament to lead the city’s caretaker government as mayor. Taking the charge at a tense time in Ethiopian history was no easy feat for a twice-retired civil servant. Facing poor infrastructure, civil unrest and violence, Deressa tried to install order and calm conditions during his two year term. 16 June 2008 11:57:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html SIPA alumnus Scott Millstein (MPA 1995) has been appointed Executive Director of the Coro New York Leadership Center. Coro brings together leaders from government, corporate, media, labor and nonprofit sectors to encourage an open dialogue and help solve the city’s problems. Millstein has worked in public service for his entire professional career. Previously, he worked for 10 years in senior positions at Safe Horizon, the country’s leading victim assistance organization. Millstein also has worked as the Special Assistant to the Commissioner at the New York City Department of Homeless Services as well as at other NYC agencies, including the Mayor's Office and the Parks Department. 9 June 2008 11:07:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Jyoti Thottam (MIA 1997) former Time Magazine senior editor and South Asian Journalist Forum president has been named Time Magazine’s New Delhi Bureau Chief. Thottam, a native of India but mostly raised in Houston, began her career at Time Magazine at On Magazine/Time Digital. Following graduation from SIPA in 1997, Thottam traveled and freelanced, spending time in India, Thailand and Nepal, before returning to New York in 1998. Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Francisco Chronicle, City Limits and Himal magazine and presented on Voice of America radio. For more information, visit www.sajaforum.org. 9 June 2008 11:07:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html SIPA alumnus William (Bill) Rigler (MIA 2004) has been appointed as Chief of Staff of the Rockefeller Foundation. He most recently served concurrently as Chief of Staff to the CEO and as a Deputy Managing Director with the Global Consulting Group, an international firm specializing in corporate communications and government relations. Bill previously served as Chief of Staff to Geraldine Ferraro, the former Vice Presidential candidate, at the same firm. Prior to this, he spent three years as Executive Director at the Humpty Dumpty Institute. Earlier in his career, Bill worked for the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).Bill has been a member of SIPA’s Alumni Council since 2007. 5 June 2008 10:33:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html From June 25th to 29th, Guillermo Calvo, Professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and President of the International Economic Association, will host the 15th World Congress of the IEA jointly with the Turkish Economic Association (TEA), in Istanbul, Turkey. 2 June 2008 12:53:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Ms. Phymean Noun, Executive Director of People Improvement Organization in Cambodia (PIO) and a participant in SIPA’s Southeast Asia Fellows Program (2005), has been nominated as a CNN Hero. A clip interview with her on her work offering assistance, education, health care, and nutrition to reduce the level of poverty of underprivileged women and children in Cambodia, can be seen on the May 29th broadcast of Larry King Live (EST 9-10pm), with the full content of the interview on CNN, Headline News and CNN International and Español the following day and throughout the weekend. (Check local listings for details). Viewers can vote for their favorite CNN Hero by visiting the website at CNN.com. We wish Phymean good luck in winning votes and continued success in her vital work. 29 May 2008 10:35:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html On May 9th, 2008 Guillermo Calvo, Director of the Program in Economic Policy Management at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, welcomed Columbia alumnus and current Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco to SIPA. Velasco, along with a party of congressmen and members of the Finance Cabinet, participated in a discussion of macroeconomic policy in Latin America in the context of the current global financial crisis. 27 May 2008 10:28:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Clinton’s convincing victories in white working class states have highlighted the shortcomings of the Obama campaign and what he will need to do to defeat presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in November. “This is good for the Democratic Party, because when John Kerry waltzed into the nomination and then ran into George Bush he did not know what hit him when they started the negative campaigning against him, and he, who was the war hero, got painted as the coward,” said Professor Ester Fuchs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. 20 May 2008 3:08:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Patricia M. Cloherty, MIA ’68, Chairman and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners, has been awarded the Order of Friendship by a decree from Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation. She received this honor for her major contribution to the development of Russian business and for strengthening friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United States of America. Ms. Cloherty is a Trustee of Columbia University and a member of the SIPA Board of Advisors. She is former Co-Chairman, President and General Partner of Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, inc.), an international private venture capital company that she joined in 1970 and that has $10 billion under management. 6 May 2008 9:07:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Andrea Bubula, a long standing popular member of the faculty at SIPA, was selected as a recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. Established in 1996, the presidential awards honor the best of Columbia's teachers for the influence they have on the development of their students and their part in maintaining the University's longstanding reputation for educational excellence. The awards are designed to recognize the diverse forms that teaching may take in the different parts of the University. 2 May 2008 2:09:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html After a 13-month international search, John H. Coatsworth has been appointed as dean of the School of International and Public Affairs. Coatsworth joined the Columbia faculty from Harvard in 2006. He is the author or editor of seven books on the history of economic development and international relations of Latin America. From 1994 to 2006, he served as the founding Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard—now the largest center of its kind in the world. He also chaired the Harvard faculty Committee on Human Rights, as well as the Committee on Education Abroad, which overhauled Harvard's undergraduate international study program. From 1969 to 1992, John taught at the University of Chicago, where he chaired the History Department and founded the university's Center for Latin American Studies. For more information see Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger's Announcement and Dean John H. Coatsworth's Statement. 29 Apr 2008 2:45:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the Top 50 Programs of the 2008 Innovations in American Government Awards competition. Selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 applicants, these programs represent the best in government innovation from local, county, city, tribal, state, and federal levels. SIPA’s Picker Center for Executive Education designed this program in collaboration with the Columbia Business School to prepare senior fire and EMS chiefs for the complex challenges of the post-9/11 world. 28 Apr 2008 4:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Byline: Steve Cohen, Executive Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. “In his ceaseless effort to maintain his record as the worst President on the environment since the creation of the EPA in 1970, President George W. Bush has somehow managed to outdo himself with his latest Rose Garden pronouncement on climate change.” 25 Apr 2008 4:14:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Steve Fainaru (MIA 1994), 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner and reporter for the Washington Post, will be the speaker at SIPA’s graduation this year. Steve had been awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the category of International Reporting for his writing on the role of private armies in the Iraq War. According to the Washington Post, Fainaru ''took personal risks to expose a hidden side of the Iraq war'' in his reporting. His articles, which exposed how private armies fired indiscriminately at insurgents and civilians and functioned without regulation or oversight, contributed to the development of legislation and Congressional oversight. For more information on the award, please see the Pulitzer Prize Website. 17 Apr 2008 11:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html The American University in Cairo (AUC) today announced the appointment of Columbia University Professor Lisa Anderson, a specialist on politics in the Middle East and North Africa, as its next provost. Dr. Anderson succeeds Dr. Earl (Tim) Sullivan who has been AUC provost since 1998 and professor of political science at AUC since 1973. 16 Apr 2008 11:34:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Hisham Aidi, lecturer at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, has been named a Carnegie Scholar for his work on Muslim youth in America and Western Europe. Aidi’s work will examine the cultural and political responses of Muslim youth in America and Western Europe in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 and the different initiatives Western states have adopted to integrate Muslim communities within their borders. Aidi's research will explain how Muslim youth, in their bid for social inclusion, are becoming racially and politically conscious, and are producing new diaspora identities and movements. The 2008 Carnegie awardees are the fourth consecutive annual class to focus on Islam. For more information on the program, please see the Carnegie site. 9 Apr 2008 11:34:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Steve Fainaru (MIA 1994) of the Washington Post has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the category of International Reporting for his writing on the role of private armies in the Iraq War. According to the Washington Post, Fainaru ''took personal risks to expose a hidden side of the Iraq war'' in his reporting. His articles, which exposed how private armies fired indiscriminately at insurgents and civilians and functioned without regulation or oversight, contributed to the development of legislation and Congressional oversight. For more information on the award, please see the Pulitzer Prize Website. 8 Apr 2008 11:53:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html A recent paper on Son-biased sex ratios by Douglas Almond (Columbia-SIPA/Economics) and Lena Edlund (Columbia-Economics) has been picked up by a number of media outlets, including the Associate Press and National Public Radio. In the paper, they document male-biased sex ratios among U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents in the 2000 U.S. Census. This male bias is particularly evident for third children: If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%. The paper is available online. 3 Apr 2008 2:01:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ The March issue of the Manhattan Institutes Civic Bulletin published an important new study by SIPA's William Eimicke and his co-author Stephen Goldsmith on the re-entry of ex-offenders into mainstream society. The report surveys a wide variety of programs that have been analyzed and presents a set of recommendations, including closer coordination among branches of the justice system, emphasis on early intervention, a focus on employment, and the involvement of family and community. 18 Mar 2008 2:09:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Robert Barnett, a Tibet specialist at Columbia University said, “They were demanding specific changes on religious restrictions in the monastery.” He said monks wanted the authorities to ease rules on “patriotic education” in which monks are required to study government propaganda and write denunciations of the Dalai Lama. 18 Mar 2008 2:05:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “You’re not going to find anybody in the Republican Party who doesn’t think he’s a mensch, a man of his word, a guy you can trust in a negotiation,” says Ester Fuchs, a Columbia University political scientist. “When he became minority leader, it was the first time he could get Democrats to the table. Before that they were completely ignored,” Fuchs says. 13 Mar 2008 4:08:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “The problem is we don’t know when this behavior started for this person,” said Cohen, a professor of public administration at Columbia University. “Politicians are like the rest of us. The fact that they’re flawed and do stupid things shouldn’t surprise us.” 11 Mar 2008 4:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The Organization of American States approved a resolution declaring the Colombian military raid into Ecuador a violation of sovereignty. “These past days showed that a radicalization of the positions by the parties involved in the conflict are not in the interest of peace,” said Aldo Civico, director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. 7 Mar 2008 2:58:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html In 1999, Senator Daniel Moynihan unveiled plans to transform the classical elements and monumental scale of the James A. Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue into a gleaming new train station. In the nine years since, what has become known as the Moynihan Station project has evolved into a grander, costlier and more complicated proposal involving not just government funds but private development. “Public-private partnerships are now one-sided arrangements in which the public actors no longer plan public spaces in the public interest,” says Elliott Sclar a professor of urban planning at Columbia University. 7 Mar 2008 2:58:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University economics professor and former advisor to President Bill Clinton, told a congressional panel that the war has contributed to substantially higher oil prices and required more foreign borrowing by the United States since Bush and Congress have not raised taxes or cut spending to pay for the combat. 5 Mar 2008 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Rodolfo de la Garza, a Columbia University professor who specializes in Latin American studies, said “as long as Castro is alive he will still be a major influence on Cuba.” “Castro’s not dead, so if something happens and he decides to protest it, which could happen, that would be very serious,” said de la Garza. “So it’s symbolic and substantial, but it’s not definitive.” 5 Mar 2008 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a well-known commentator on urban policy, will lecture on why New York is America’s largest city on March 11th at 6pm. Glaeser is the Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard and Director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. His work has focused on the factors that create city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. 29 Feb 2008 2:51:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ José Antonio Ocampo has been awarded the distinguished Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, along with Robert Wade of the London School of Economics, for their work on trade and development. Neva Goodwin, who directs award selection process at Tufts’ Global Development And Environment Institute, said, “José Antonio Ocampo and Robert Wade are among the most creative economic thinkers, combining rigorous analysis with empirically grounded research. Each of them is laying critical pieces of the groundwork that’s needed for solving global problems in ways that will genuinely improve the lives of the world’s poor majority.” 28 Feb 2008 9:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Tanya Heikkila, Assistant Professor at SIPA, is part of an interdisciplinary team that received a $6 million grant from the PepsiCo Foundation for a project on the challenges of water scarcity in India, Brazil, China and several countries in Africa. The project will be based at the newly founded Columbia Water Center and will be directed by Professor Upmanu Lall at the School of Engineering. The project seeks to demonstrate that an integrated, interdisciplinary approach combining site-appropriate technological, policy and economic innovations is the best method to produce sustainable water supply development. 25 Feb 2008 3:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html On January 23, 2008 Borders announced the winners of the 2007 Original Voices Awards. The 12th annual Original Voices Awards recognizes “fresh, compelling and ambitious works” from new and emerging talents of 2007 in several literary categories. Peter Godwin, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, is the winner of the non-fiction category for his book, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa. According to the Borders’ selection committee the story took readers somewhere unfamiliar and taught them something new. Peter Godwin’s novel was also placed on The Notable Books Council of the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA) 2008 list of outstanding books for the general reader. 12 Feb 2008 4:04:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html “It seems like every mayor, because they’re in this media center, people say they should run for president. Of course, no New York City mayor has ever gone on to higher office. It’s something Mayor Giuliani is discovering right now,” says Steven Cohen, Columbia University professor. 5 Feb 2008 11:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Rodolfo de la Garza, Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. “…Clinton has a decade and a half of experience and ties to prominent Latinos in the regions where most Latinos live. Obama has just two years in national public office and a political base in the Midwest. For the majority of Latinos it is the political calculus of long-established relationships combined with early outreach and the support of community influentials that are most likely to carry the day.” 1 Feb 2008 1:05:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: William Eimicke, Founding Director of the Picker Center for Executive Education. “There is considerable evidence, reported in a recent National Academy of Sciences study and elsewhere, that ex-offenders who are able to get and keep a job are less likely to return to prison. They have a good deal of trouble doing it on their own, but much less with the assistance of a variety of community-based programs.” 1 Feb 2008 1:05:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Steven Cohen, a professor of public administration at Columbia University, praised the mayor’s plan saying, “taxes should not be raised in an economic downturn.” “The tax-cut plan should also help the mayor politically,” Cohen said. 23 Jan 2008 5:20:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: James Rubin, Professor of International and Public Affairs. “Even as the ‘surge’ of US troops has calmed fighting in Iraq, the war itself is heating up the American election in unexpected ways. It is not only the wisdom of war or its tragic execution that is at issue, but also whether and how America should extricate itself from that war-torn country.” 23 Jan 2008 5:20:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University said, “President George W. Bush’s eight day Middle East tour accomplished very little. He tried to rally the ‘troops’ to his policy and I think it had very little affect.” 23 Jan 2008 5:20:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “This is among the best books and certainly the most comprehensive study of the Indian economy since Independence. It is a valuable addition to the libraries of people interested in understanding the past, present and future of the Indian economy.” 16 Jan 2008 4:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Jacqueline Klopp, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Hundreds have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the three weeks since Kenya’s hotly disputed presidential elections. The international community must realize that Kenya’s violence today is fueled by strongmen on both sides of the political divide. They are exploiting ethnic identity, pitting one community against another, as a means to gain power. 15 Jan 2008 2:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The Pentagon video showed it clearly: Iranian speedboats buzzing dangerously close to three U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway at the base of the Persian Gulf, on January 6th. “The fact that it comes a couple of days before the President sets off on his trip raises questions,” says Professor Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University. 15 Jan 2008 2:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host Libya’s foreign minister, the first visit by the top Tripoli diplomat since 1972. Lisa Anderson, a Middle East politics expert at Columbia University, said “the Libyans are feeling a little impatient” at the slow pace of full diplomatic normalization, and Tripoli probably wants a U.S. invitation for leader Muammar Gaddafi-an unlikely prospect. 15 Jan 2008 2:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html If Mr. Bloomberg launches an official campaign, he is expected to explain his about-face by saying he changed his mind after the selection of the Democratic and Republican nominees for president. A professor of public administration at Columbia University, Steven Cohen, said that if Mr. Bloomberg decided to run, he'd likely say that neither party nominated a centrist candidate who could lead the country. "Depending on the nominees, that's where he'd get his rationale for his own run," he said. 4 Jan 2008 10:44:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Jeffrey Sachs, professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. “Many of today’s war zones—including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Sudan—share some basic problems that lie at the root of their conflicts. They are all poor, buffeted by natural disasters and have rapidly growing populations that are pressing on the capacity of the land to feed them.” 28 Dec 2007 12:37:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The dollar’s recent fall might signal that the ‘fiat’ money system, which has been in place since America departed from the gold standard in 1971, was something of a mistake. Richard Clarida, a professor of economics at Columbia University, disagreed. “I think the adjustment of the dollar to date is understandable, I think it’s appropriate, I think on balance it’s stabilizing for the global economy,” he said. 26 Dec 2007 4:05:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany, gave SIPA's annual Silver Memorial lecture entitled, “Russia and the Future of European Energy Security,” co-sponsored by The Center for Energy, Marine, Transportation and Public Policy (CEMTPP). 18 Dec 2007 2:15:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html Byline: Stephen Sestanovich, professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University. After meeting with leaders of the European Union recently, Vladimir Putin boasted the surging Russian economy has overtaken that of Italy, and will overtake France in 2009. Such astonishing claims have become commonplace in statements by Russian officials, who insist Russia will become the world’s fifth largest economy by 2020. 18 Dec 2007 10:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html On the surface, the accomplishment of the two-week UN climate conference that concluded in Bali seems meager. Thousands of delegates representing nearly 200 nations agreed to talk more, laying out a road map for negotiations that will in theory produce a climate treaty by 2009. “My starting point is a sigh of relief that we’re on the right track, the fact that there is a Bali action plan is an important development,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. 18 Dec 2007 10:55:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Mayor Bloomberg is asking all presidential candidates to complete a 16-question survey on gun trace data, gun trafficking, and punishment levels for breaking gun laws. Steven Cohen, a professor of public administration at Columbia University said, “gun control is an emotional issue in America that has divided urban and rural voters.” 14 Dec 2007 9:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Part of the Shah’s defensive strategy was to develop a nuclear “surge capacity” – the know-how and infrastructure to build a bomb at short notice if and when the need for the ultimate deterrent arose. “Iran’s rulers are following a strategy very much like that of the Shah,” said Gary Sick, a senior research scholar at Columbia University. He blames the Bush administration for not adopting a negotiating strategy with Iran over its nuclear ambitions that would take into account Iran’s strategic concerns. 14 Dec 2007 9:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “Giuliani’s welfare people matched the city data with the State Department of Labor data and basically found that people were working already,” said Ester Fuchs, a Columbia University professor of public affairs. “So they found fraud, sent out letters, people left the rolls and they were instantly employed. Weeding out fraud is an inarguable achievement, but Giuliani makes it sound as if he also created a robust job program.” 14 Dec 2007 9:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Malawi hovered for years at the brink of famine. Almost five million of its thirteen million people needed emergency food aid. “The donors took away the role of the government and the disasters mounted,” said Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist who lobbied Britain and the World Bank on behalf of Malawi’s fertilizer program and who has championed the idea that wealthy countries should invest in fertilizer and seed for Africa’s farmers. 14 Dec 2007 9:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The revelation that security costs for Giuliani’s trysts with Judith Nathan were spread to obscure New York accounts exposes the former mayor to harsh questions his campaign wanted badly to avoid about character, truthfulness and a penchant for secrecy. “The biggest problem for him, if you look at the New York papers today, it’s all pictures of Rudy and Judi in the Hamptons,” said Steven Cohen, a public administration professor at Columbia University. “I’m sure that’s not what he wants to see in the press right now while he’s pushing his campaign.” 14 Dec 2007 9:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Steven Cohen, a professor of public administration at Columbia University, cautioned against reading too much into the reported meetings between Mr. Bloomberg and Ms. Soderberg, a foreign policy adviser in the Clinton administration and a critic of the war in Iraq. “I would never assume that because he is consulting with someone he is necessarily going to follow that person,” he said. 14 Dec 2007 9:35:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Juanes’ Mi Sangre Foundation has partnered with the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) to create a campaign for nonviolence in the singer’s home country of Colombia. The goal of this campaign is to formulate innovative solutions that will bring peace to the people of Colombia, who desire an end to the violence from guerillas and paramilitaries. CICR director, Aldo Civico, says the program could involve a partnership between other universities and non-governmental organizations. Civico will introduce Juanes to experienced peace moderators who have worked on CICR projects in the past, such as former U.S. Senator George Mitchell. Both Civico and Juanes hope that new creative solutions will start a path to peace. More information is available in an article in the Los Angeles Times. 12 Dec 2007 3:36:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html After nearly 20 years of exemplary service as the Founding Director of SIPA's International Media and Communications concentration, Professor Pete Johnston has announced that he is retiring at the end of this academic year. To ensure a smooth transition, Anya Schiffrin will be appointed as the Acting Director of IMC for the 2008-2009 academic year. A reception in honor of Professor Johnston will be held in the spring semester. 10 Dec 2007 4:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Habitat for Humanity - New York City has announced the appointment of a SIPA alumnus, Josh Lockwood (MIA 97) as Executive Director. Habitat-NYC, a leading affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, builds affordable homes for ownership in New York City's five boroughs. Lockwood earned his Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in 1997. "I am honored and inspired to be leading Habitat-NYC at this historic time, when we are providing more affordable homes to hardworking New York City families than ever before," said Lockwood. He joined the organization in 2006 as Chief Operating Officer and was appointed Acting Executive Director in the spring of 2007. 27 Nov 2007 2:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Giuliani’s recent commercial plays to one of his strengths, New York’s resurgence while he was mayor. During his term, crime in New York decreased by sixty percent and welfare rolls shrank by more than half. Yet critics say he doesn’t deserve all the credit for the city’s comeback. “It wasn’t done in Rudy’s first term, it was done over the course of twenty-five years of people working to rebuild what had fallen apart,” said Steven Cohen, a public affairs professor at Columbia University. 27 Nov 2007 9:20:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Sanjay Reddy. “The problems with poverty estimates go well beyond the inappropriate nature of the conversion factors used to make such adjustments across currencies, and ultimately reside in the failure to specify an international poverty line that are meaningful in the sense that they correspond to the real cost of achieving basic human requirements." 27 Nov 2007 9:20:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “The global reserve system is fraying; it’s falling apart,” said Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-laureate economist at Columbia University. “The change in mindset about the use of the dollar in reserves and the movement of the dollar out of the reserves will continue to exert downward pressure.” 15 Nov 2007 5:22:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html On October 9, 2007, Bill de Blasio (MIA 1987) announced his candidacy for Brooklyn Borough President. Mr. de Blasio says that he is running for Borough President because he believes, “I have the experience and vision to strengthen and protect Brooklyn neighborhoods in a time of unprecedented growth and change.” His priorities as Borough President would include keeping Brooklyn affordable by building and preserving affordable housing and stopping out-of-control and out-of-character development, and improving quality of life in every Brooklyn neighborhood. Bill de Blasio has dedicated his career to public service. He is the current Councilmember representing Brooklyn's 39th District and current Chair of the City Council's General Welfare Committee. His past accomplishments include serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's successful 2000 U.S. Senate bid and as a former member of Brooklyn's Community School Board. For more information on his campaign please visit: www.billdeblasio.com. 15 Nov 2007 4:05:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Images from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed some of the realities of poverty in this country–the living conditions of poor Americans, the racial divides, government funding biases, and dangerously weak social safety nets. For Kristen Lewis (MIA ’93) national reactions to Katrina made her realize that many Americans did not understand poverty in their own country. At around the same time, Sarah Burd-Sharps (MIA ’87), who was Deputy Director of UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, thought it might be valuable to explore well-being and poverty issues through this lens in a domestic context, as well. She had seen the power of this approach to question the status quo and bring change on every continent. As a result, the two former UNIFEM colleagues began the exciting yet laborious process of pioneering the first ever American Human Development Report (AHDR). 14 Nov 2007 10:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html The Parliament in the republic of Georgia on Friday approved a decree by President Mikheil Saakashvili to keep the nation under a state of emergency for as long as fifteen days, resisting calls from inside and outside the country to restore personal and political rights. Lincoln Mitchell, a Columbia University professor who closely follows Georgian politics said, “to ensure a chance at a fair election Imedi-TV would have to be allowed to broadcast as an independent station.” 13 Nov 2007 1:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html In the last couple of years there has been a sharp backlash against the philosophy of “social marketing” that has pushed its practitioners’ off-balance and led economists to take sides. High-profile development scholars, including Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, have joined a chorus of criticism and several economic studies have chipped away at the rationale behind social marketing. “You can’t expect people with no money to buy bed nets,” said Sachs. 13 Nov 2007 1:10:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS), the East-West Institute, and the Center for International Business Education and Research presented a panel discussion on bioterrorism and WMD proliferation with panelists Dr. Mark Chandler, Chairman and CEO, Biophysical; Brandon D. Declet, Counsel to the US House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security; Stuart Gottlieb, Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Dr. Greg Austin, Vice President at the East-West Institute and Director of EWI's Global Security Program and Policy Innovation. 8 Nov 2007 4:52:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html Gary Sick, a professor of Middle East politics at Columbia University said, “Washington has long run a risk by betting everything on Musharraf, making him the center of U.S. security strategy in the region. That strategy could backfire if the situation in Pakistan spins out of control.” 8 Nov 2007 3:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html On October 23, 2007, the UN Studies Program at SIPA sponsored a major conference on child soldiers at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Speakers included renowned author Ismael Beah, former child soldier in Sierra Leone and author of "Long Way Gone" (Memoirs of a Boy Soldier); Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, Permanent Representative of France to the UN and Chairman, Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict; Nicolas Michel, Under-Secretary General, Department of Legal Affairs at the United Nations; Hilde Johnson, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF; Jo Becker, Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch; and Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer, Acting Director, UN Studies Program, SIPA. The event was co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies, the Humanitarian Affairs Program, the International Conflict Resolution Program and the Human Rights Concentration. Video of the event is available online at sipa.columbia.edu/multimedia. 2 Nov 2007 2:45:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html “You’re going to hear a lot about taxes over the next two years. Some of the things you hear will be true. Others will be less true… 'A dirty little secret is that the corporate income tax used to raise a fair amount of revenue,' says Richard Clarida, a Columbia University economist and former Treasury Department official under Mr. Bush.” 1 Nov 2007 12:28:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The presidency of Argentina was handed from husband to wife, as first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner crushed thirteen opposition candidates. The main difference between the outgoing and incoming presidents is one of style. “He has appeared very domestically oriented, whereas she appears much more prone to talk to the outside world and to engage other people in conversation,” said Maria Victoria Murillo, a Latin American political scientist at Columbia University. 30 Oct 2007 5:30:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Robert Jervis, a Columbia University professor who chairs an advisory panel for the CIA on the declassification of historical documents said, “Releasing intelligence estimates increases the likelihood their contents will be used for political rather than foreign policy purposes, and influences how they are worded.” 30 Oct 2007 5:30:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. James Hansen is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where his team researches the physics and forecasting of climate change. In June 1988, he became the first leading scientist to explain global warming to the U.S. Congress and the American people. Over the past two decades, Hansen’s concerns for the world’s future have only mounted. He has therefore recommended a decisive shift to a new sustainable economy with much lower emissions of carbon dioxide. 29 Oct 2007 2:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The criminal investigation of New York’s former police commissioner is on track to crash headlong into the GOP presidential race and Rudy Giuliani’s final push for the nomination. “It will matter significantly if his opponents bring it up,” said Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University political science professor. “And, they very well might, especially if he’s the front-runner.” 29 Oct 2007 2:40:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “A slowdown in the U.S. economy may be prolonged as a house-price drop cuts off a source of funding for consumers,” said Joseph Stiglitz a professor at Columbia University. “The average price of housing in the U.S. is already falling,” he said. “That will be a big problem for the U.S. and if it is a problem for the U.S., it’s going to be a big problem for the global economy.” 25 Oct 2007 3:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Mayor Bloomberg’s administration is laying the groundwork to codify many of PlaNYC’s goals into city law without the help of Albany lawmakers. Ester Fuchs, a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, argues “that the city and upstate economies are so different that the city should be allowed to set its own standards to make the energy planning workable.” 25 Oct 2007 3:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “I think it is a big question for China that there seems to be a continuing inability to gauge how Tibetans think, and how to win them over,” says Robert Barnett, professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University. “They need to get over the idea that you can buy people’s loyalty by improving the economy and improving cities and so on. It just isn’t working out for them,” he says. 17 Oct 2007 5:08:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Richard Clarida, professor of economics and international affairs at Columbia University, talks about the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy and the U.S. dollar, the state of the credit markets and inflation concerns in the U.S. 17 Oct 2007 5:08:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Dorian Warren, a Columbia University professor who focuses on racial politics, said “the seeming spike in noose hangings have come at a crucial time when Americans are grappling with anxiety about immigrants of color and a growing economic disparity.” 16 Oct 2007 12:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “I believe there are many places that are in, or on the edge of, conflict because of climate change already, and this prize is a warning that on our current trajectory of climate change the risk will get worse-these will be the conflicts of the 21st century,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. 16 Oct 2007 12:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s plan to create a regional lending bank will be beneficial for South America. “It is a good thing to have competition in most markets, including the market for development lending,” the Columbia University professor said. He said the World Bank and International Monetary Fund tend to lay down many conditions that “hinder the development effectiveness.” 12 Oct 2007 1:00:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, UN Ambassador from Nigeria and Columbia alum (MA ‘70), recently returned from a four day visit to Rangoon as the UN’s Special Envoy to Myanmar, where he held meetings with the government officials and detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. As a representative of the Good Offices Mandate of the Secretary General, his mission was designed to assess the situation on the ground in the wake of recent demonstrations, and try to promote dialogue between the government and the opposition as to the best path to ending the present crisis and achieving a humane reconciliation. 11 Oct 2007 10:15:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/gambari_2007.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/gambari_2007.html Dr. Abdulkarim Soroush is considered one of the world’s leading Iranian scholars, and SIPA’s Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR), the Committee on Global Thought, the Department of Religion and the entire Columbia community at large warmly welcome him as a Distinguished Guest for the Fall Semester. Dr. Soroush will be based at the CDTR for the Fall Semester, and will mostly be working with Professor Bilgrami graduate philosophy students on the role of modern Islam in a world that is increasingly governed by the ideals of democracy and secularism. Much of his recent research investigates the cultural and religious east-west divide. Dr. Soroush believes that religion has a role in governing a nation, and in fact can add a powerful and important focus on duty and responsibility for each citizen. However, he also speaks of the expansion and contraction of religious knowledge that redefines itself as societies change and grows. 9 Oct 2007 5:37:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Elisabeth Lindenmayer has been appointed the Acting Director of the UN Studies Program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and will serve as Acting Director while Professor Edward Luck is on public service leave with the International Peace Academy and the United Nations. She also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia and teaches in the Honor's Program at New York University. 9 Oct 2007 5:37:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to announce that José Antonio Ocampo has joined the faculty as a Professor of Professional Practice. He will teach courses in the Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development and will also play an active role in the Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought. 9 Oct 2007 5:37:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke and participated in a question and answer session with university faculty and students at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum. 9 Oct 2007 5:37:44 GMT http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/multimedia/index.html World Bank President Robert Zoellick is an improvement over his predecessor Paul Wolfowitz, said Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent advocate for aid to developing countries. Sachs urged Zoellick to redirect the World Bank’s focus on corruption in aid-receiving nations to providing practical solutions on hunger and poverty. 5 Sept 2007 3:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Standard & Poor’s named Deven Sharma to replace Kathleen Corbet as president after lawmakers and investors criticized the credit rating company for failing to judge the risks of securities backed by subprime mortgages. S&P earns fees for rating so-called structured notes, helping borrowers put together debt securities in a way that will get the highest possible credit rankings while allowing managers of the securities the most profit, according to Charles Calomiris, the Henry Kaufman professor of financial institutions at New York’s Columbia University. 5 Sept 2007 3:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Markets and lenders are unsure of the value of the complex, opaque securities hold and need to sell or use as collateral… “This system has never been stress-tested until now,” says Richard Clarida of Columbia University and Pacific Investment Management Co., the West Coast money manger. 24 Aug 2007 12:45:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html A greater percentage of social scientists today feel that their academic freedom has been threatened than was the case during the McCarthy era. Lisa Anderson just finished 10 years as dean of Columbia’s School of International and Public affairs, and the last few years of her tenure found her among the Middle Eastern studies scholars who were regularly criticized by some pro-Israel groups for alleged anti-Israel or anti-American bias. “The attacks have deeply damaged the research community,” Anderson said. 16 Aug 2007 10:25:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Indonesia’s economy grew the fastest in more than two years in the second quarter as exports rose and lower interests rates fueled spending and investment. That should encourage the government to aim for a rate of economic expansion similar to China and India, according to Joseph Stiglitz. “Growth is very strong, though not as strong as the 10% of China and India,” Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and Columbia University economics professor said. “If one can get broad-based sustained growth of 5 to 6% there is no reason why you can’t go up the next tier.” 16 Aug 2007 10:25:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Stuart Gottlieb, Professor of counterterrorism at the Graduate School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Wesley K. Clark and Kal Raustiala argue that “terrorism should be fought first with information exchanges and law enforcement,” and that terrorists “ought to be pursued, tried and convicted in the courts.” Bringing terrorists to justice will always be a priority. But in the age of catastrophic terrorism it is equally important to ensure that attacks do not occur, and that will require tools of prevention, not just prosecution. 14 Aug 2007 10:31:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The war is the reason why some Republicans are straying from the party and other Republicans are sticking by Bush’s side. A few percentage points of Republican voters have discarded the Republican label over their opposition to the war. “It is unclear whether these Republicans have abandoned the Republican Party for good, or whether they do not want to be labeled ‘Republican’ when they talk to pollsters,” said Robert Shapiro, a Columbia University political science professor who specializes in public opinion and politics. 10 Aug 2007 04:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Twenty-something women have surged past young men on the salary scale in New York and other large cities, according to recent news reports. But these fast starters may find themselves blindsided as they progress into their 30s and 40s since 90% of the top earners at Fortune 500 companies are men. Sylvia Hewlett has made it her mission to change that. Dr. Hewlett directs the gender and public policy program at Columbia University. She has authored several books about women in the workforce and has persuaded 34 companies employing 2.5 million people to participate in a ‘Hidden Brain Drain’ task force. 7 Aug 2007 05:28:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “The turbulence in the U.S. subprime mortgage market could spread to other sectors in the economy, especially as growth momentum is already weak,” said Joseph Stiglitz former chief economist of the World Bank. “The risks could spread to sectors wider than the subprime, but how wide is difficult to tell. It’s a broad problem,” Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate economist and Columbia University professor said. 2 Aug 2007 05:01:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “Paramilitarism in Columbia has been more then just an umbrella of blood-thirsty right-wing armed groups. The phenomenon is a much deeper one; it is the expression of corrupt regional political and economic elites who have been infiltrating regional and national democratic institutions. According to recent studies, between 1999 and 2003 the paramilitaries have transformed the political map of 12 departments of Columbia,” said Aldo Civico, director of the Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution. 2 Aug 2007 05:01:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “I applaud Collier’s excellent new book, Bottom Billion and thank him for including kind references to my own work therein. The very idea of the poverty trap as being critical in Africa, a concept at the core of The Bottom Billion, has likewise been a core theme of my own writings on Africa. For my part, I have worked hard to introduce in the academic literature and policy discussions the idea that poverty is involved in vicious circles related to violence, natural resources, landlockedness and other geographic factors, and poor governance,” says Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. 23 Jul 2007 05:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “He did some things in the first couple of years in particular that he should get some credit for, particularly the continuing reduction in crime, but I don’t think he was an unusually good mayor,” said Steven Cohen, a public affairs professor at Columbia University. “He was actually a capable guy and did a good job,” Cohen said. “But I think he had the tendency to see himself as the only person who was smart in the room.” 23 Jul 2007 05:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “Iranians refer to their new political radicals as ‘neoconservatives,’ with multiple layers of deliberate irony,” notes Gary Sick, an Iran specialist at Columbia University, adding: “The hotheads around President Ahmadinejad’s office and the U.S. foreign policy radicals who cluster around Vice President Cheney’s office, listen to each other, cite each other’s statements and god each other to new excesses on either side.” 23 Jul 2007 05:00:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Ester Fuchs, professor of international and public affairs and political science at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and former advisor to Mayor Bloomberg, weighs in on the Mayor’s 11th hour push for his congestion pricing plan. “The proposal on the table is to set-up a commission which allows some details to be banged out after Monday. The opportunity to work out the issues of boundaries, zones, fees, and money to spend on mass transit should allow Sheldon Silver and his constituents to agree to congestion pricing.” 17 Jul 2007 01:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Sergio Fajardo has the simple idea that the most beautiful buildings should be in Medellín’s poorest areas. Mr. Fajardo hired renowned architects to design and assemblage of luxurious libraries and other public buildings in the city’s most desperate slums. “Fajarado is making a long-term wager by carving out a foothold for the state in areas that were neglected for years,” said Aldo Civico, who as director for the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University has done extensive fieldwork on Medellín’s violence. “You need to start a process of transformation somewhere.” 17 Jul 2007 01:12:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html “You can mention in a kind of push-poll way that he’s done this, this and this,” said Steven Cohen, professor of public administration at Columbia University. “But it’s another thing for him to have a few hundred million dollars of advertising saying that in emotional terms and really registering with people.” 16 Jul 2007 05:30:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Xiabo Lu, a political science professor at Columbia University, says that once institutions are in place, the Chinese will gradually form certain ‘ethical rules of the game.’ “Right now, it is everything goes-precisely because, yes, everything goes- no good credit checking system, no well-placed fear of violating good norms, one can get away with cheating,” Mr. Lu explains. 16 Jul 2007 05:30:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Libya’s improving diplomatic relationship with the West has disguised the trouble Col. Moammar Gadhafi faces at home. A protest over Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad reportedly gave way to an anti-Gadhafi rally, with police stations attacked. “Gadhafi has lost his position at the forefront of Arab political activism to Islamic fundamentalists,” says Lisa Anderson, a Middle East expert and dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. 12 Jul 2007 02:15:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html A barrage of attacks and a civil rights lawsuit against the City Council speaker could actually bolster Christine Quinn’s anticipated mayoral aspirations and help her emerge as a strong leader known for standing up for her convictions, political observers say. A professor of public administration at Columbia University, Steven Cohen, said “if the city were as racially divided as it was under Mayor Giuliani, Mr. Barron’s combative stance against Ms. Quinn might be more potent. But Ms. Quinn has a good reputation throughout the city and among African Americans.” 12 Jul 2007 02:14:52 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The British succeeded in playing one against the other, using ‘divide and rule’ tactics, as Rashid Khalidi points out in his book, The Iron Cage: The story of the Palestinians Struggle for Statehood. The Palestinian revolt fell apart in what Mr. Khalidi, a professor at Columbia University, calls a failure of leadership. “We are left with a picture,” he writes “of a Palestinian elite that was hopelessly divided internally, and many of whose prominent members had a variety of more or less entangling connections to the British overlords of the country, while some had links to the Zionists as well.” 12 Jul 2007 02:11:41 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Byline: Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya The WTO talks between the G-4 nations have collapsed again. This time, the only surprising twist was that U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab put the blame primarily on India and secondarily on Brazil. 12 Jul 2007 02:10:57 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics at Columbia University, said the southern African country of Malawi had successfully improved its agricultural sector by subsidizing fertilizer and high-yield seed for the poorest farmers. He said that after two good harvests, Malawi is due to have another bumper crop this year, proving that a ‘green revolution’ of the kind seen in India and China decades ago is possible in Africa too. 12 Jul 2007 02:10:06 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html The Putin administration is trying to build up a sense of foreign threats to improve the popularity and ensure the continuation of his regime after the 2008 elections,” Kimberly Marten of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute said. 12 Jul 2007 02:09:08 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Most likely he just wants to remain in play. He’s a lame-duck mayor, and the renewed publicity over his shift to being an independent keeps him in the news, increases his political currency, and gives publicity to the city,” says Columbia University professor of public administration Steven Cohen. “It’s all a gain for him, pure gain,” says Cohen. 12 Jul 2007 02:07:41 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html A decade ago, geologists found signs that one of Africa’s least-known countries, the tiny island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, might hold a king’s ransom in oil. In recent years, a steady stream of activists like the Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs have gone there to make sure that any energy boom would benefit its 150,000 people, rather than politicians and companies. “Oil can be a blessing or a bane for a country,” Mr. Sachs said. “The theory was to help Sao Tome avoid the resource curse.” 12 Jul 2007 02:05:07 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Marshall D. Shulman, founding director of the Harriman Institute and an early supporter of regional studies at Columbia University, passed away on June 21, 2007 at the age of 91. Dr. Shulman, Adlai Stevenson Professor Emeritus of International Relations, was director of the Russian Institute at Columbia, which was renamed the W. Averell Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union in 1982 when Dr. Shulman convinced Mr. Harriman and his wife, Pamela to endow the institute with $11.5 million. 8 Jul 2007 03:38:31 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to announce that José Antonio Ocampo has joined the faculty as a Professor of Professional Practice. He will teach courses in the Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development and will also play an active role in the Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought. 8 Jul 2007 03:37:02 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Columbia University Professor Ester Fuchs, who served as a special advisor to the mayor in his first term, suggested Bloomberg has a different agenda: to thrust urban concerns into the forefront of the national debate. “Mayor Bloomberg has done more for city issues to resonate as national issues than any other mayor since La Guardia,” she said. 4 Jul 2007 19:19:13 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/faculty_in_media.html Professor John Coatsworth has agreed to serve as interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, effective July 1. 4 Jul 2007 19:13:10 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html The Quality of Life Program (QL), A Working In Support of Education (W!SE) initiative, held its 12th Annual Quality of Life Forum at Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. 4 Jul 2007 19:11:40 GMT sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html SIPA and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY SPP) Announce a New Dual Degree Program 4 Jul 2007 18:58:08 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html   4 Jul 2007 19:00:49 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/special_events/graduation/graduation-video07.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/special_events/graduation/graduation-video07.html SIPA News issue focuses on Energy policy 4 Jul 2007 19:02:44 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanewssp07.pdf sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/sipa_news/sipanewssp07.pdf William B. Eimicke, the Director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, will take public service leave in the coming academic year to serve as Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Planning and Policy in the New York City Fire Department. During the year 4 Jul 2007 19:15:46 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html sipaevents@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html Professor Guillermo Calvo, the Director of SIPA's Program in Economic Policy and Management, gave a presentation at the IMF along with fellow panelists Jeffrey Frankel and Kenneth Rogoff. A transcript of the presentation, which assesses the importance of external shocks in emerging markets, is available online. 4 Jul 2007 19:17:30 GMT http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html http://sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/archive.html