SIWPS – Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Conversation with LTG Cavoli Event (September 24, 2018) Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics

Sipa Saltzman Inst annual panels on Russia-China relations

Panel Discussion: "#MeToo and the National Security Space, Intel, Cyber and Gov’t" featuring: Tara Heidger, SIPA '19 and GAAPP '19, Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Antonia Chayes, Professor of Practice of International Politics and Law, The Fletcher School of International Affairs, Tufts University, Rachael Sullivan, SIPA '18Nora Bensahel, Distinguished Scholar, American University and Mara Karlin, Associate Professor of the Practice of Strategic Studies, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University ( February 9, 2018)

Sipa Saltzman Inst annual panels on Russia-China relations

The Tenth Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations: “The Balance of Global Public and Private Power: A Tale of Two Worlds” featuring John Ruggie, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. (October 25, 2018)

Book Talk at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (January 10, 2018): Human Rights Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2017) co-edited by Jack L. Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations in the political science department, Stephen Hopgood and Leslie Vinjamuri

Columbia University SIPA Digital and Cyber Research Group 2016

Mara Karlin, “Building Militaries in Fragile States” with Dipali Mukhopadhyay and Stephen Biddle (February 5, 2019)

Women Waging War Conference, Thursday, April 4, 2019.

Erica Chenoweth, Oct 6, 2019 Photo by Bruce Gilbert

Afghanistan, South Asia, and the West: A Conversation with Professor William Maley, Professor of Diplomacy at Australia National University’s Asia- Pacific College of Diplomacy. (September 15, 2017)

Roundtable with LTG Christopher Cavoli - with Jason Healey (Sept. 24, 2018)

Panel Discussion: "Media in the Age of Trump” (October 22, 2018) featuring: John Avlon (CNN), James Freeman (WSJ), Danielle Pletka (AEI), Jim Rutenberg (NYT), and Stuart Gottlieb, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs

Susanna Campbell "Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding” with Severine Autesserre (Sept. 11, 2019)

Christine Cheng and Severine Autesserre (Thur. April 4, 2019)

Summer Workshop on Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) (July 2019)

July 16, 2022

Peter Clement Appointed Interim Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

The Institute is proud to announce that Peter Clement has been appointed Interim Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Clement has been a senior member of the Institute since 2018; previously he was a Visiting Professor at SIPA from 2012-2015. A Russia expert, Clement teaches courses on Contemporary Russian Security Policy and Intelligence and Foreign Policy, and has won several teaching awards for his courses. Clement also directs the Institute’s initiative, “Emerging Voices in National Security and Intelligence.”

In 2018, Clement retired from CIA, where he held several senior analytic and management positions, most recently as Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia; prior positions included eight years as Deputy Director for Intelligence for Analytic Programs, and Director of the Office of Russian and Eurasian Analysis. Clement served as the PDB daily briefer for Vice-President Cheney, NSC Adviser Rice and Deputy NSC Adviser Hadley in 2003-2004 and did a brief tour at the National Security Council as the Director for Russia and later as the senior CIA representative to the US Mission to the United Nations.

Clement has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2001 and is a longtime member of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Previously, he taught Russian history and politics for over 10 years at the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia’s northern Virginia campus, and two years as a visiting professor at Columbia (2013-2015). Clement has published journal articles and book chapters on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, US intelligence reform, and the Cuban missile crisis. He holds a Ph.D. in Russian history and an M.A. in Modern European history from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in liberal arts from SUNY-Oswego. Clement will begin his tenure on July 16, 2022.

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