Author Archives: Olivia Grinberg-Phillips

On September 18, Kimberly Marten had a new article published in The Washington Quarterly (47 (3): 79–102) titled, “Upsetting the Balance: Why Russia Chose Hamas over Israel.” You can read it online here.

On September 17, Rajan Menon had an article published in The Guardian titled, “Is a political settlement between Russia and Ukraine on the cards? I am sceptical.” You can read it online here. 

On September 10, Cynthia Roberts had an article published by the Texas National Security Review as part of a book review roundtable discussing Dima Adamsky’s new book, The Russia Way of Deterrence: Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War. Her article is titled, “The Challenges of Decoding Russian Coercion,” and is available online here.

On August 28, Stephen Biddle had a new article published in Foreign Affairs online titled, “The False Promise of Ukraine’s Deep Strikes Into Russia.” In the article, he argues that while it would help Ukraine for the US to lift its restrictions on deep strike, this is unlikely to turn the tide of the war militarily. You can […]

On August 28, former Saltzman Institute Visiting Scholar Rafael Mesquita had a co-authored article published in the Journal of Peace Research titled, “The references of the nations: Introducing a corpus of United Nations General Assembly resolutions since 1946 and their citation network.” The article explores what have been some of the main themes debated at […]

On August 27, Peter Clement was interviewed by David Priess, author of The President’s Book of Secrets, on the Chatter podcast by Lawfare. He discussed his road to studying Russia as a career, the art of Kremlinology, Putin’s rise, Putin’s feelings about Ukraine across the decades, and more. The episode is titled, “What Putin Wants, with Peter Clement,” and is […]

Stephen Biddle has a new article (coauthored with John Severini) in Security Studies titled, “Military Effectiveness and Naval Warfare.” The article debuts a new dataset on all 573 known surface naval battles since 1649 with at least three major combatants engaged and at least one on each side, and uses these data to contrast trends and patterns […]

Tamar Mitts has been awarded a grant from the Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative to study adversary social influence and information campaigns.  This is an exciting, multi-university, multi-year project that will combine subject matter and investigative expertise with deep experience in quantitative impact evaluation. At Columbia, the award will support research on how influence […]

On August 7, Jason Healey gave a major talk at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas titled, “Is Defense Winning?” His talk looks at what “winning” means for cyber defenders and provides a framework for understanding if any system-wide advantage is shifting from offense to defense. As you may remember, SIPA’s first New York […]

On August 7, former Saltzman Institute Visiting Scholar Rafael Mesquita had a co-authored article published by the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal titled, “Jurisprudence in hard and soft law output of international organizations.” The article explores whether international organizations that produce hard law use jurisprudence differently than those that produce soft law, applying network analysis […]