How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save? – US foreign aid saves a little more than 9,000 lives per day.

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

IR State of the Art for Latin America, where to start?

We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.

Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia: Through the Lens of the Japanese Wartime Empire

The Trump administration has deported a Brown University professor even though she had a valid visa and there was a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion – Brown has advised its international students and faculty to avoid personal travel outside the United States.

How Drones Make Civil Wars Worse

Ukrainian immigrants have “positive impact on Poland’s GDP and budget”, finds report

Ukrainian immigrants have “positive impact on Poland’s GDP and budget”, finds report

'Wave of nationalism': Trump tariffs are good politics in Canada and Mexico

Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia – The US government has been funding a specialist team based at Yale University, who use open source technology to trace the lost children and help repatriate them.

Bret Stephens asserts in the NY Times that UC Berkeley and Columbia have since the 1990s become factories of Maoist cadres taught by far-left professors – The most prominent IR theorist was a professor at both of these institutions in the 1990s: Kenneth Waltz, notable woke maoist.

United States Institute of Peace (USIP), an important funder of IR research, turned DOGE representatives (accompanied by FBI agents) away from its headquarters

Misunderstanding McKinley

Study: Air pollution from China substantially increases mortality and morbidity in South Korea

ARPS study: China, International Finance, and the Global Economic Order

First They Came for Columbia – "Autocrats — both left-wing and right-wing — always attack universities. The public rationale varies... But these are pretexts. Universities are independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent."

The placement and subsequent withdrawal of military forces in the postbellum US South exacerbated violence over the long run by triggering racialized revenge dynamics. US counties that were occupied by Black troops witnessed higher incidences of anti-Black violence than other areas.

APSR study: The placement and subsequent withdrawal of military forces in the postbellum US South exacerbated violence over the long run by triggering racialized revenge dynamics. US counties that were occupied by Black troops witnessed higher incidences of anti-Black violence than other areas.

APSR study: The placement and subsequent withdrawal of military forces in the postbellum US South exacerbated violence over the long run by triggering racialized revenge dynamics. US counties that were occupied by Black troops witnessed higher incidences of anti-Black violence than other areas.

Nuclear proliferation could again become a global challenge.

In the late 19th century US, milk was frequently diluted and contaminated by merchants, causing public health harms. In response, major cities adopted quality standards for milk and hired milk inspectors. This in turn reduced deaths from diarrheal diseases and typhoid by up to a third.

JPE study: The textbook case for industrial policy (investment in an economic sector subject to external economies of scale) appears to have modest effects on long-term economic growth. Economists have exaggerated the transformative effects of industrial policy success stories, such as South Korea.

Why Trump's Tariffs Won't Work

Why Trump's Tariffs Won't Work

Columbia University faculty and admins instruct students who are not U.S. citizens to avoid publishing work on the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine amid deportation threats by the Trump administration.

Would a Peace Deal in Ukraine Last?