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News and Event Highlights

News and Event Highlights

Climate, Energy, and Sustainable Development

"AI-managed EV charging can reshape electricity demand at scale, with considerable benefits for consumers and the grid," writes IGP Affiliated Faculty member Robert Metcalfe.

Sep 17 2025
Centre for Net Zero
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: “With the Republicans in the 2024 presidential election doing better than in the past in blue states which they lost, we have to see races in these states for governor or the Senate as potentially competitive."

Sep 17 2025
Newsweek
IGP in the News
Geopolitical Stability

Bianna Golodryga speaks with Israeli journalist and IGP Research Scholar Nadav Eyal about the beginning of the Israeli army's ground incursion into Gaza City.

Sep 17 2025
CNN
IGP in the News
Geopolitical Stability
Sep 17 2025
Event Highlight
Technology and Innovation

IGP Affiliated Faculty member Anya Schiffrin says the battle for compensation is not over. She noted that some lawmakers are debating inserting a ” must-carry” dispositive in future bargaining laws to prevent social media from removing news content to avoid regulation.

Sep 16 2025
Agência Pública
IGP in the News
IGP Ann F. Kaplan Women's Initiative

Institute of Global Politics (IGP) Women’s Initiative and Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution host first virtual roundtable

Sep 16 2025
Event Highlight
Climate, Energy, and Sustainable Development

“You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day,” says Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser who now runs Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and serves as an IGP Faculty Advisory Board member.

Sep 16 2025
New York Times
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

"The inconsistency [in content moderation] is really powerful for actors who wish to promote extremism on social media. That allows them to find people who may be attracted to the ideologies and recruit them on less moderated spaces," said IGP Affiliated Faculty member Tamar Mitts on CNN.

Sep 15 2025
CNN
IGP in the News
Geopolitical Stability

At a roundtable hosted by Columbia’s Institute of Global Politics on September 12, Ha’aretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn analyzed the erosion of Israel’s political guardrails under Prime Minister Netanyahu, the country’s deepening ideological divides, and the uncertain future of Israeli democracy.

Sep 12 2025
Event Highlight
Student Spotlight

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo welcome a new cohort of student scholars, encouraging them to build bridges across ideological divides and grapple with complex questions.

Sep 10 2025
Event Highlight