Category: International Relations

December 18, 2014

Jared Del Rosso on the Torture Debate and the CIA Report

“The report offers, at last, a peak at the CIA’s own documentary record. What we find is what critics of the program have long known we’d find. Not the mastery or enhancement of violence, but torture.”—Jared Del Rosso The following...

November 20, 2014

Joel Simon Discusses The New Censorship on The Leonard Lopate Show

Yesterday, Joel Simon, author of The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about the book and the increasing threats to journalists. Simon warns that these threats are leading to...

November 18, 2014

An Interview with Joel Simon, author of The New Censorship

“This is the most deadly and dangerous time for journalists in decades”—Joel Simon The following is an interview with Joel Simon, author of The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom. On November 11 at Book Court in...

November 17, 2014

Sex and World Peace: What’s Next

“Empower women and you enhance security in all its dimensions. Disempower women, and you undermine that security.”—Valerie Hudson The following post if written by Valerie Hudson, co-author of Sex and World Peace. My co-authors and I are very grateful that...

November 5, 2014

Gloria Steinem on Sex and World Peace

As part of her Reading Our Way to the Revolution, Gloria Steinem has selected Sex and World Peace book of the month. In the coming days, Steinem will be featuring the book and you can follow #GloriaReads for more updates....

October 23, 2014

Richard Betts on the Failures and Future of U.S. Military Actions

In a recent article in “Foreign Affairs,” Richard K. Betts, author of “American Force,” looks at the military and geopolitical challenges ahead for the United States.

October 17, 2014

Around 1948 with Khalidi, Liu, Moyn, and Nelson

Video from “Around 1948: Human Rights and Global Transformation,” a panel discussion with Rashid Khalidi, Lydia Liu, Samuel Moyn, and Deborah Nelson.

September 30, 2014

To the Point: A New E-book Series from Columbia University Press

                  Columbia University Press is proud to announce the launch of To the Point an exciting new e-book series that extends the scholarship of our authors for a growing global and digital audience. We present standalone chapters from the press’s...

August 13, 2014

Making Sense of Afghanistan’s Electoral Crisis — A Post by Noah Coburn and Anna Larson

“While Kerry again has brokered a deal between feuding candidates, there is no reason to believe that this deal will ultimately hold and it is the candidates who will ultimately determine whether there is a peaceful transition of power or...

June 13, 2014

Sharing Jerusalem: On the Geneva Initiative and the Jerusalem Old City Initiative

Read Michael Dumper’s take on Geneva Initiative and the Jerusalem Old City Initiative for sharing Jerusalem, excerpted from JERUSALEM UNBOUND.

March 10, 2014

Will Putin Look to Annex More Territory? Why the Crimea Crisis Is Not about a Greater Russia Project

In a recent post for The Washington Post‘s blog The Monkey Cage, Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres draw on arguments and themes in their book For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War to examine the situation in...

January 17, 2014

Rashid Khalidi on Ariel Sharon

Rashidi Khalidi, author of Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War (now available in a revised edition with a new introduction), has recently been interviewed and asked to comment on Ariel Sharon’s legacy and his impact on the Middle...