On July 2, Anne Nelson was quoted in The Guardian, offering her media expertise for an analysis of Sinclair, one of the largest owners of US television stations. The article is titled, “TV giant known for rightwing disinformation doubles down on its national news agenda” and is available online here.
Sarah Daly’s book, Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections, won the 2024 Gregory Luebbert Best Book Prize from the American Political Science Association. The award is given for the best book in the field of comparative politics. Read more about Violent Victors here.
On June 13th, Jean-Marie Guéhenno delivered the Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Oxford University. His lecture was titled “The Future of War and Peace,” and explored how societal changes, globalization, technology, and power dynamics shape the landscape of conflict and peace. Read more here.
On Monday, June 10, Rajan Menon had a new article published in The Guardian titled, “Is the risk of nuclear escalation rising between Russia and the west?” You can read it online here.
Paola Solimena, the Saltzman Institute Postdoctoral Research Scholar in National Security and Intelligence, has been awarded the Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Prize for her DPhil thesis. This prize is awarded annually by the University of Oxford, and recognises outstanding theses in the area of international peace and understanding. You can read more about the prize here.
On June 5, Columbia News featured Anne Nelson’s book, Red Orchestra (publisher page linked here), in an article titled, “6 Books Written by Faculty Members That Will Make Terrific Summer Reads.” You can find the full news feature here.
On June 5, the West Africa bureau chief at The New York Times gave a special shoutout to Séverine Autesserre’s book, The Frontlines of Peace. You can read the recommendation in the NYT arts section here (click to slide #4 in the series).
On June 3, Rajan Menon had a new essay in Foreign Policy titled, “Now Is Not the Time to Negotiate With Putin.” You can read it online here.
On May 2, Tamar Mitts had a new article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled, “The politics of allyship: Multiethnic coalitions and mass attitudes toward protest.” The abstract is pasted below. You can read the full article online here. Abstract: Recent work finds that nonviolent resistance by ethnic minorities is […]
On May 1, Page Fortna and Renanah Miles Joyce (Columbia PhD, 2020) had an article published in Perspectives on Politics titled, “Extremism and Terrorism: Rebel Goals and Tactics in Civil Wars.” You can read it online here.
