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Geopolitical Stability

Bianna Golodryga speaks with Israeli journalist Nadav Eyal about the beginning of the Israeli army's ground incursion into Gaza City.

Sep 17 2025
CNN
In the Media
Climate & Sustainable Development

“You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day,” says Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser who now runs Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

Sep 16 2025
New York Times
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

Rumela Sen, faculty director of the master’s in international affairs programme at Columbia University, told Al Jazeera that if one looks beyond the visuals of rage emerging from these countries’ protests, “there is a very democratic, sincere aspiration for political inclusion, economic justice, and holding their elected representatives accountable”.

Sep 16 2025
Al Jazeera
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

Rumela Sen, a South Asia expert at Columbia University, said it was "worrying" to see "an unprecedented glorification of the army as a voice of sanity and stability".

Sep 16 2025
BBC
In the Media
Technology & Innovation

Anya Schiffrin says the battle for compensation is not over. She noted that some lawmakers are debating inserting a ” must-carry” dispositive in future bargaining laws to prevent social media from removing news content to avoid regulation.

Sep 16 2025
Agência Pública
In the Media
Climate & Sustainable Development

“There is way too much U.S. LNG capacity coming online for Europe to absorb,” said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a former head of gas analysis at BP who now works as a global research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy. “There is also a nontrivial possibility that the U.S. will export more LNG than Europe will consume,” probably by the early 2030s, she added.

Sep 15 2025
Foreign Policy
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

"The inconsistency [in content moderation] is really powerful for actors who wish to promote extremism on social media. That allows them to find people who may be attracted to the ideologies and recruit them on less moderated spaces," said SIPA's Tamar Mitts on CNN.

Sep 15 2025
CNN News Central
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

A clever map trick, Ukrainian self-defense, and European Union membership should form the core of a face-saving deal, writes Cynthia Roberts, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Sep 11 2025
Foreign Policy
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

Historically in Nepal, “there is very much an expectation that security forces will break the law,” said Rumela Sen, a lecturer at Columbia University whose research focuses on political violence in South Asia.

Sep 10 2025
New York Times
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

Colin Kahl ’00SIPA, a national-security adviser in the administration of President Barack Obama ’83CC and undersecretary of defense for policy under President Joe Biden, said in a 2022 interview that there was “rarely a conversation” on national-security issues in the White House Situation Room when he and colleagues did not draw on Robert Jervis’s work.

Sep 10 2025
Columbia Magazine
In the Media