University Seminar on International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Policy

In the fall of 2021 the Institute launched a new University Seminar on International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Policy.

In the Fall of 2021 the Institute announced a new University Seminar on International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Policy. The Seminar explores topics in international relations that have direct implications for contemporary issues of foreign policy. Through regularly hosting a community of scholarly experts engaged in analyzing current events through the lens of the existing academic conversation, the seminar strives to produce rigorous academic analysis of contemporary developments in foreign relations, synthesizing international relations theory and real-world events. I

The Seminar seeks to build on an Institute tradition established by the late Robert Jervis in his informal international relations faculty seminar, a decades-long forum that discussed current research and publications in the field. The invitational Seminar includes faculty from Columbia University and Barnard College, as well as professors and staff from the Council on Foreign Relations, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, the US Military Academy at West Point, the US Naval War College, visiting faculty and researchers, and others. In 2025-26 the Seminar will be chaired by Institute Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar Dr. Peter Clement, with administrative support from Ingrid Gerstmann and Olivia Grinberg.

Inquiries concerning the Seminar may be directed to Ingrid Gerstmann, Assistant Director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies via email to ig79@columbia.edu.

You can learn more about the Columbia University Seminars HERE.