Creating a dedicated U.S. Cyber Force as a new branch of the armed services could transform America’s ability to defend against growing cyber threats. In this new FDD Monograph, IGP Affiliated Faculty member Erica Lonergan and Mark Montgomery outline the current gaps, what a U.S. Cyber Force would look like, how it could strengthen U.S. national security. 

“I find that there’s been confusion between urgency and haste,” Ben Orlove, Columbia professor of international and public affairs and IGP Affiliated Faculty member, told Gizmodo. “Though we recognize the urgency of action, that should never serve as an excuse for incompletely reviewed proposals moving forward.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order rebranding the Pentagon as the “Department of War." IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Tim Naftali discusses why the department was renamed and reacts to Trump and Hegseth's reasoning for the change.

IGP Affiliated Faculty member Glenn Denning will serve as Columbia’s main liaison to the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty.

IGP researcher and Columbia SIPA lecturer Jen Weedon, who researches best practices in red teaming AI systems, pointed out that where a red team sits in the organizational chart shapes its incentives.

The WTO core still holds, but members must use this crisis to push reform, writes Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow.

Asialink and the Asia Institute present the 2025 Southeast Asia Oration, with Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa, Inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow.

Maria Ressa — professor of professional practice at Columbia SIPA and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member — Addresses the National Press Club of Australia.

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "Bessent is engaged in partisan wishful thinking, counting on the Supreme Court to uphold executive power...The exception of emergency power here is a stretch—what emergency? The lower courts have seen this. Luckily for Trump, the tariff has appeared to have marginally affected prices and jobs so far, but this is all poised to get worse."

Professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Joseph Stiglitz, who will lead South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's taskforce to combat extreme wealth inequality, explains that "inequality has widened to extremes that threaten democracy itself and should be a concern of all of us; the profound rise in the discontents of mismanaged globalisation which in many places has contributed to this growth of inequality is also evident."