How do world leaders make decisions at critical moments? In Inside the Situation Room, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, bring together academics and policymakers to bridge the gap between theory and practice and offer insight into what happens behind the curtain.

"After the latest strikes, it’s hard to see Israel doing anything other than sticking to its current strategy – one in which diplomacy plays no role," writes Rajan Menon.

"I don't think subsidizing electricity just as a general matter necessarily makes sense," says Noah Kaufman, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, who served as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Joe Biden.

A political science professor explains how voters are shopping around this year.

Former White House Russia expert David Shimer calls Trump’s weapons plan for Ukraine a “positive step forward.”

This special CGEP blog series, featuring six contributions from CGEP scholars, analyzes the potential impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) across a range of sectors.

Jason Healey and Tarang Jain MIA '25 write: "Attackers in cyberspace have long held system-wide advantages. Fighting back requires measuring progress."

Peter Clement has published a chapter, "How Putin Turned Foreign Policy Success into Strategic Defeat," in a new edited volume, Failure. Russia Under Putin (Brookings Institution Press, 2025).

Such letters play to Trump’s desire for deference — and his preference for the sort of fawning behavior that sometimes comes with diplomacy, said Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian and senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.