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Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics (1940-2021)

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

12/06/22 Book panel with author Walter Russell Mead, "Arc of the Covenant."

9.29.22 DAS Jung Pak

9.15.22 Trump and the Intelligence Community

About SIWPS

The Institute was founded as The Institute of War and Peace Studies (IWPS) in 1951, under the sponsorship of Dwight D. Eisenhower, during his tenure as president of Columbia University, in an effort to promote an understanding of “the disastrous consequences of war upon man’s spiritual, intellectual, and material progress.”

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The Chalkboard Politics Podcast

Applications for the 2026-2027 Podcast Team have closed. If you submitted an application by the deadline (May 8th, 2026), please stay tuned for updates via email. More About Chalkboard Politics Chalkboard Politics is a student-produced and student-hosted podcast that aims to connect concepts that students encounter in the classroom with real-world political events and to […]

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