“For many presidents, the lesson seemed to be: Don’t allow the realities of war into people’s living rooms if you can help it,” said Timothy Naftali, senior research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Thomas J. Christensen, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, argues that the most significant factor shaping the upcoming Trump-Xi meetings will be Beijing’s perception of its own apparent success in 2025 in responding to U.S. threats with resolute counterthreats.

Rachel Vogelstein, director of the Women’s Initiative at Columbia’s Institute of Global Politics and co-author of the new report, said that in the past 25 years, the rate of child marriage globally has decreased from 1 in 4 girls married as children to 1 in 5. But advocates and researchers are troubled by a trend of countries shifting priorities and resources away from gender equality and ending child marriage.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew says he's most concerned that the administration hasn't fully weighed the risks of a broader conflict as it wages war in Iran.

Jason Bordoff, the founding director at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, discusses why the war in Iran is driving up oil prices and why they may go even higher.

SIPA Professors Rachel Vogelstein and Yasmine Ergas discuss the state of women’s rights today, tracing progress since the Beijing Declaration and examining how recent setbacks risk reversing hard-won gains from the past three decades.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses the staggering economic burden and human rights implications of child marriage, which affects 12 million girls annually.

A new report produced by the Institute of Global Politics Women’s Initiative shines a light on the detrimental impacts and root causes that drive child marriage across the globe. The report was commissioned by Sheryl Sandberg, founder of Lean In, with support from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, faculty advisory board chair of the Institute of Global Politics.

Cathleen Jeanty MIA ’27 navigated the throngs at this year’s Munich Security Conference as a member of the press, but what she encountered revealed quite a lot about the state of international politics.

Rajan Menon, senior research scholar at the Saltzman Institute, rejects the assumptions that Europe can't defend itself without the U.S., claiming that this mindset is the product of decades of American strategy. Menon shows how Europe's chosen dependence could be overcome, and why the Trump era makes it both possible and necessary.