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Rapid Response
Through online events and faculty interviews, IGP releases "Rapid Response" analysis, in real time, as events unfolded throughout the world, ranging from the war in Israel and Gaza to the landmark elections in Argentina.
On May 18, the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) hosted a Rapid Response webinar titled, “US-China Relations after the Trump-Xi Summit.” The discussion featured Isaac Arnsdorf, White House Bureau Chief for the Washington Post; Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member at Columbia SIPA, Pritzker Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Erica Downs, Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA; Julian Gewirtz, IGP Senior Research Scholar at Columbia SIPA, former Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the US National Security Council, and author of Never Turn Back; and Liza Tobin, Managing Director at Garnaut Global, Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, and former NSC China Director. The conversation was moderated by Zongyuan Liu, IGP Senior Research Scholar at Columbia SIPA and author of Sovereign Funds.
On March 3, the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) hosted a Rapid Response webinar titled, “What War in Iran Means for Stability in the Middle East and Implications for the US.” The discussion featured Holly Dagres, Libitzky Family Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Viterbi Program on Iran and US Policy; Nadav Eyal, IGP Senior Research Scholar, author of Revolt, the Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization, and senior columnist for Yediot Ahronot Daily, Israel's most circulated newspaper; Jeh Johnson, former US Secretary of Homeland Security and General Counsel of the Department of Defense; and Norman Roule, former National Intelligence Manager for Iran at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The webinar was introduced by Keren Yarhi-Milo, dean of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations, IGP Cofounder and Faculty Advisory Board Member, and moderated by Lisa Anderson, Dean Emerita, James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations, and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member at Columbia SIPA.
On February 2, the Institute of Global Politics hosted a Rapid Response webinar titled “Federal Immigration Enforcement and the Future of US Democracy.” The discussion featured Marie Gottschalk, Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania; G. Elliott Morris, data journalist and author of the Strength in Numbers Substack; Elora Mukherjee, Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; and Ilan Wurman, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. The webinar was introduced by Keren Yarhi-Milo, dean of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations, IGP Cofounder and Faculty Advisory Board Member; and moderated by Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Government and director of IGP’s American Democracy Initiative at Columbia SIPA.
On January 22, the Institute of Global Politics hosted a Rapid Response webinar titled “Iran — What’s Next?” The discussion featured Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Amos Hochstein, former White House Senior Advisor to President Biden, managing partner at TWG, and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; and Kian Tajbakhsh, Visiting Professor of International Relations at NYU and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. The conversation was moderated by Victoria Nuland, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy, Director of the International Fellows Program, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member at Columbia SIPA.
On January 7, the Institute of Global Politics, Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP), and the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) hosted a Rapid Response webinar titled “Venezuela – What Happens Next?” The discussion featured Hon. Roy Altman, US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida and an IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; Jon Finer, former Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, former IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, and CGEP Distinguished Visiting Fellow; Avril Haines, former US Director of National Intelligence and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; Luisa Palacios, CGEP Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and former Chairwoman of Citgo Petroleum Corporation; Roberto Patiño, Founder of Mi Convive and Alimenta La Solidaridad, Cofounder and President of Institute 2100, and former ILAS Visiting Scholar; and Mike Pompeo, 70th Secretary of State and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow. The conversation was moderated by Sarah Daly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and the author of Organized Violence after Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America.
On November 3, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “US-China Relations: What Comes Next?” The discussion featured Thomas Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations at Columbia SIPA and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Edward Fishman, Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA and author of The New York Times Bestseller Chokepoints, Zoe Zongyuan Liu, IGP Senior Research Scholar at Columbia SIPA and the author of Sovereign Funds, and Matt Turpin, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Former Director for China at the National Security Council. The conversation was moderated by Julian Gewirtz, IGP Senior Research Scholar at Columbia SIPA, Former Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the White House National Security Council, and the author of Never Turn Back.
On October 10, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “The Gaza Deal.” The discussion featured Shira Efron, Distinguished Israel Policy Chair and senior fellow at the RAND Corporation; Nadav Eyal, senior research scholar at Columbia SIPA's Institute of Global Politics, author of Revolt, the Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization, and senior columnist for Yediot Ahronot Daily; Nasser al-Kidwa, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority; Jacob Lew, former US Ambassador to Israel, 76th US Secretary of the Treasury, IGP Faculty Policy Director, and professor at Columbia SIPA; and Samer Sinijlawi, chairman of the Jerusalem Development Fund. The conversation was moderated by Keren Yarhi-Milo, dean of Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations, and IGP cofounder and Faculty Advisory Board member.
On October 1, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar with the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies titled “Drugs and Security: Shifting US Policy in Latin America.” The discussion featured Maria Alejandra Vélez, professor at the Universidad de Los Andes, Elizabeth Saunders, director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and professor at Columbia University, and Geoff Ramsey, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. The conversation was moderated by Eduardo Moncada, director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and associate professor at Barnard College.
On August 6, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “What University Settlements Mean for Higher Education, Civil Society, and Democracy.” The discussion featured Ester Fuchs, professor of international and public affairs and political science, director of the Urban and Social Policy concentration, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member at Columbia SIPA; Olatunde Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and IGP Affiliated Faculty member at Columbia SIPA; and David Pozen, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. The conversation was moderated by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member at Columbia SIPA.
On June 26, the Institute of Global Politics and the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) held a Rapid Response webinar titled “The Israel-Iran Conflict’s Impact on Energy Markets.” The discussion featured Jason Bordoff, professor of practice, founding director of the Columbia SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member; Jon Finer, IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, CGEP Distinguished Visiting Fellow, and former US Principal Deputy National Security Advisor; Daniel Sternoff, non-resident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and head of Energy Aspects Executive Briefing Service; and Karen Young, senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy. The conversation was moderated by Richard Nephew, senior research scholar at the Columbia SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and former U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Iran.
On June 18, the Institute of Global Politics and the Center on Global Energy Policy held a Rapid Response webinar titled “Israel and Iran Conflict.” The discussion featured Eyal Hulata, senior international fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former Israeli National Security Advisor; Richard Nephew, senior research scholar at the Columbia SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and former U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Iran; Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and the director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School; Elizabeth Saunders, incoming director of the Columbia SIPA Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. The conversation was moderated by Jason Bordoff, professor of practice, founding director of the Columbia SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member.
On June 12, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “The Fight Over the Federal Budget.” The discussion featured Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, associate professor of international and public affairs and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member; R. Glenn Hubbard, dean emeritus of Columbia Business School, Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, director of the Jerome A. Chazen Center for International Business, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors; Jennifer Klein, professor of practice and IGP Women's Initiative Director; Jacob Lew, professor of international and public affairs, IGP Faculty Policy Director, former Office of Management and Budget Director, 25th White House Chief of Staff, and 76th US Secretary of the Treasury; and Natasha Sarin, professor of law at Yale Law School and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the US Treasury. The conversation was moderated by Richard Clarida, C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics, professor of international and public affairs, IGP Affiliated Faculty member, IGP Faculty Advisory Board member, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
On May 12, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “The India-Pakistan Conflict” The discussion was introduced by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and featured Shamila Chaudhary, former National Security Council Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan; Jon Finer, former Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; Rajan Menon, Emeritus Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science at the City College of New York and Columbia SIPA Adjunct Senior Research Scholar; Mike Pompeo, 70th Secretary of State and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; and Rumela Sen, Columbia SIPA lecturer, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Affiliated Faculty member, and South Asia Institute Affiliated Faculty member. The conversation was moderated by Stephen Biddle, Columbia SIPA Professor, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member.
In a timely Institute of Global Politics (IGP) Rapid Response webinar on April 30, Columbia SIPA Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science Jeffry Frieden moderated a panel of economists to unpack the geopolitical effects of the latest round of tariffs on an increasingly fragmented global economy. Panelists included Teresa Fort, associate professor of business administration at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, former Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, Professor of International and Public Affairs at SIPA and IGP affiliated faculty, Dennis Novy, professor of economics at University of Warwick, and David Weinstein, Carl S. Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy at Columbia. Frieden offered opening remarks and posed questions to the group, who explored how tariffs are redrawing the map of global trade, and what it means for policymakers, businesses, and consumers.
On April 21, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “Governmental Attacks on Civil Society—Lessons for the US from Around the Globe.” The discussion featured Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University; M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia SIPA professor of political science, director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member; and Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist, cofounder and CEO of Rappler, Columbia SIPA professor of practice, IGP Affiliated Faculty member, and inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow. The conversation was moderated by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia SIPA associate professor, vice dean for curriculum and instruction, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member.
On April 21, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “Ukraine Peace Talks: The Complex Road Ahead?” The discussion featured Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University–Newark professor of political science; Victoria Nuland, Columbia SIPA professor of international diplomacy, director of the International Fellows Program, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member; Adam Tooze, chair of Columbia SIPA’s Committee on Global Thought, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, director of the European Institute, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member; and Mikhail Zygar, author of All the Kremlin’s Men, columnist for Der Spiegel, and Columbia SIPA adjunct professor. The conversation was moderated by Peter Clement, adjunct senior research scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia SIPA adjunct professor, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member.
On April 10, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “How Much is Global Health a Matter of Global Politics?” The discussion featured Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, executive vice president of Columbia Global and Columbia University Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine; Dr. Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of global health & HIV policy at KFF; Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; and Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times science and global health reporter. The conversation was moderated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Columbia SIPA professor of international and public affairs, 67th Secretary of State, former US senator from New York, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board chair.
On March 6, 2025, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “What’s Next for Ukraine.” The discussion moderated by Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo featured Hillary Rodham Clinton, Columbia SIPA professor of international and public affairs, 67th Secretary of State and former Senator from New York, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board chair; Stephen Biddle, Columbia SIPA professor of international and public affairs, member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member; Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, and Columbia SIPA adjunct professor of international and public affairs; Timothy Frye, Columbia University Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy; and Victoria Nuland, Columbia SIPA professor of international diplomacy, director of the International Fellows Program, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member.
On January 24, 2025, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar titled “Explaining the Gaza Ceasefire and Hostage Deal.” The discussion moderated by Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo featured Ghaith al-Omari, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Irwin Levy Family Program on the US-Israel Strategic Relationship; Nadav Eyal, Columbia SIPA senior research scholar, author of Revolt, the Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization, and senior columnist for Yediot Ahronot Daily, Israel's most circulated newspaper; and Jacob Lew, Columbia SIPA professor of international and public affairs, former US Ambassador to Israel, former US Secretary of the Treasury, IGP Faculty Advisory Board member, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member.
On December 11, 2024, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar on the fall of Assad in Syria. Columbia SIPA Dean Emerita Lisa Anderson moderated the discussion featuring Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, former policy planning staff member at the US State Department, and former special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Jerome Drevon, senior analyst on Jihad in Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group; and Kim Ghattas, inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, author of Black Wave, and contributing writer for The Atlantic.
On December 3, 2024, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar on the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo moderated the discussion featuring Nadav Eyal, Columbia SIPA senior research scholar, author of Revolt, the Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization, and senior columnist for Yediot Ahronot Daily, Israel's most circulated newspaper; Kim Ghattas, inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, author of Black Wave, and contributing writer for The Atlantic; and Victoria Nuland, Columbia SIPA professor of international diplomacy, director of the International Fellows Program, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member.
On July 26, 2024, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response State of the Race webinar, moderated by Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, and featuring analysis from Columbia SIPA senior research scholar and presidential historian Tim Naftali, CNN anchor Abby Phillip, Columbia SIPA adjunct associate professor of international and public affairs Christina Greer, Columbia SIPA professor of political science Elizabeth N. Saunders, and Columbia SIPA Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government Robert Y. Shapiro.
On January 13, 2024, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar discussing the newly elected President of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te, the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) candidate. The discussion featured Thomas Christensen, Columbia SIPA professor of public and international affairs and director of the China and the World Program, and Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia SIPA Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science.
On November 21, 2023, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar discussing the election of right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as the new president of Argentina, following a polarized campaign in which he promised a dramatic shake-up to the country. The discussion featured M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia SIPA professor of political science, director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member, as well as Fernando Cirelli, Columbia SIPA assistant professor of international and public affairs.
On November 17, 2023, the Institute of Global Politics held a Rapid Response webinar assessing the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in San Francisco following a long-awaited first face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The discussion featured SIPA Dean Emerita Merit Janow, professor of practice in international economic law and international affairs, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member; and Thomas Christensen, Columbia SIPA professor of public and international affairs and director of the China and the World Program.
On October 19, 2023, the Institute of Global Politics convened an expert panel to consider the unfolding humanitarian situation in Gaza, the reaction and role of Israel’s Arab neighbors, and the ability of diplomacy to avert a humanitarian disaster and deter a wider war. Tune into the discussion with Lisa Anderson, Columbia SIPA dean emerita, special lecturer, and James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations; Dave Harden, founder and managing director at Georgetown Strategy Group, former USAID mission director to the West Bank and Gaza, and senior advisor to President Obama's Special Envoy for Middle East Peace; Dennis Ross, diplomat, former US Special Envoy to the Middle East, and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland; and Kristele Younes, former Director of UN Policy for the International Rescue Committee in New York, Columbia SIPA lecturer in international and public affairs, and director of the humanitarian policy track of the human rights and humanitarian policy concentration. SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo moderated the discussion.
On October 10, 2023, the Institute of Global Politics convened an expert panel to consider the recent Hamas attack on Israel, Israel’s response, and the wider geopolitical ramifications. The discussion featured Hillary Rodham Clinton, Columbia SIPA professor of international and public affairs, 67th Secretary of State and former Senator from New York, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board chair; Stephen Biddle, Columbia SIPA professor of international and public affairs, member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and IGP Affiliated Faculty member; Nadav Eyal, Columbia SIPA senior research scholar, author of Revolt, the Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization, and senior columnist for Yediot Ahronot Daily, Israel's most circulated newspaper; Kim Ghattas, inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, author of Black Wave, and contributing writer for The Atlantic; and Robert O’Brien, inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, cofounder and chairman of American Global Strategies LLC, and former US National Security Advisor. The conversation was moderated by Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations.