Category: Politics

March 6, 2018

Confessions of a Reluctant Revolutionary

During the campus protests of 1968, writer Phillip Lopate ’64CC, today a professor in the School of the Arts, joined an alumni group supporting the student radicals. Now, almost fifty years later, he’s still trying to make sense of his...

February 22, 2018

How Women Came to Matter in American Foreign Policy

We recently released a paperback edition of The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, which originally launched in 2015. Watch the original panel discussion and book launch at the Wilson Center. Remember...

February 21, 2018

How Sex Came to Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy

The United States has made empowering women and girls a cornerstone of our foreign policy, because women’s equality is not just a moral issue, it’s not just a humanitarian issue, it is not just a fairness issue; it is a...

February 21, 2018

Wednesday Excerpt: The Art of Sanctions

  “Sanctions have become a hot policy tool and Richard Nephew—a key sanctions policy practitioner during the Obama administration—has written a masterful insider’s how-to guide. Those dealing with or worried about North Korea, Russia, or Iran would do well to...

February 20, 2018

Did it Mean Nothing?

Guest post by authors, Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl As authors of the book The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, which examines how US foreign policy came to “see” women, and what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

January 11, 2018

Definitions, Motivations, and Locational Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. In this video, Sarianna M. Lundan, provides an overview of Chapter 3, where she explores the...

January 9, 2018

An Introduction to Rethinking Investment Incentives

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. This video, by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), introduces the book and how it explores the...

October 22, 2017

Safwan Masri on the success of Tunisian democracy after the Arab Spring

Watch four videos from Safwan M. Masri’s recent talk at George Washington University in support of his new book, TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY.

October 19, 2017

Tunisia and the Arab Spring

Listen to an interview with Safwan M. Masri, author of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY!

October 18, 2017

A Different Trajectory

Read an excerpt from chapter 14 of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

October 17, 2017

Introducing Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

Read an introductory excerpt from TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

September 28, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Conflict between North and South Korea, on an Intimate Scale

Welcome to the Columbia University Press Thursday Fiction Corner! This week Ani Kodzhabasheva, a PhD candidate at Columbia University, reflects on Yi Mun-yol’s novel Meeting with My Brother and current events. Are you confused by the barrage of threats launched...