The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (SIPA) is the international affairs and
public policy
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school of
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, a private
Ivy League
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New York City
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international relations
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in the world.
SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields, as well as the Executive MPA and Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development.
SIPA's alumni include former heads of state, business leaders, journalists, diplomats, and elected representatives. Half of SIPA's nearly 1,400 students are international, coming from over 100 countries. SIPA has more than 70 full-time faculty, many of which include the world's leading scholars on
international relations
International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such ...
.
History
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
's School of International Affairs was founded in 1946 following the aftermath of
World War II
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. Emphasizing practical training, the mission of SIPA was to foster the understanding of critical regions and to prepare diplomats, officials, and other
professional
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s to meet the complexities of the postwar world. It originated in dynamic regional institutes that drew on Columbia's renowned faculties in
history
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,
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...
,
political science
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,
linguistics
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, and other traditional fields. The School initially awarded a
Master of International Affairs
The Master in International Affairs (MIA), or the Master in Global Affairs (MGA), also known as Master in International relations (MIR) is a master's degree awarded by schools of international affairs.
Subject matter
Details can vary between d ...
(MIA) degree.
By 1967, the School was home to eight regional institutes, covering nearly every part of the globe. It also contained the non-area-specific Institute of War and Peace Studies (now the
Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) is a research center that is part of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York. It was founded in 1951 by President of Columbia Dwight D. Eisenho ...
), founded in 1951 by university president Dwight D. Eisenhower. Originally housed in a row of brownstones, the School moved into its own 15-story building in 1971.
To meet a growing demand for public service professionals, the school added a second degree, the Master of Public Administration, in 1977. In 1981, the program was renamed the Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration and the school renamed the School of International and Public Affairs.
In the early 1990s, SIPA began appointing its own faculty, supplementing the distinguished
social
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humanists
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with whom SIPA students studied around the university. Within 15 years, SIPA faculty were among the most prominent in their fields, including the one-time director of the U.S. census, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, a judge on the appellate body of the
World Trade Organization
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in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and ...
, economic advisors in both the
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United Nations
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, and many distinguished research scholars.
In 1992, with support from the
World Bank
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, the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) was established to provide mid-career finance professionals with the skills required for the effective design and implementation of economic policy, emphasizing the problems of developing and transition economies. Students who complete PEPM's requirements are awarded an MPA degree.
To accommodate the needs of working professionals who could not pursue full-time study, SIPA established the Executive MPA program in 1999 as part of the Picker Center for Executive Education. In 2001 the School introduced an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy (ESP), which condenses the two years into twelve consecutive months, without a reduction in requirements, and provides core courses in management and policy analysis with a concentration in
environmental science
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and earth systems. The ESP MPA program is offered in cooperation with
The Earth Institute
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and the
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
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. In fall 2004 SIPA inaugurated its first doctoral program, the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in
Sustainable Development
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, which combines elements of a traditional graduate education in social science, particularly economics, with a significant training in the natural sciences.
On March 23, 2022 current professor and director of the Saltzman Institute, Keren Yarhi-Milo was named Dean.
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Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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In addition to fulfilling all core requirements, MIA and MPA students must also satisfy the requirements of both a policy concentration and a specialization. Students choose one of the following six concentrations: Economic and Political Development; Energy and Environment; International Finance and Economic Policy (includes focus areas in international finance; international economic policy; and central banking); Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy; International Security Policy; or Urban and Social Policy.
Students choose a specialization in one of the following: Data Analytics and Quantitative Analysis; Gender and Public Policy; International Conflict Resolution; International Organization and UN Studies; Technology, Media, and Communications; Management; or regional expertise (8 different regions/countries). Regional specializations are offered in the following areas: Africa, East Asia, East Central Europe, Europe, Latin America, The Middle East, Russia, South Asia, and the United States. The Advanced Policy and Economic Analysis (APEA) specialization was discontinued during the 2018–2019 academic year.
Rankings and reputation
'' Foreign Policy'' ranked SIPA fifth in its 2018 ranking of "Top Master's Programs for Policy Career in International Relations". In addition, SIPA was ranked first by '' U.S. News & World Report Best Graduates Schools'' in the 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022 world rankings for International Global Policy and Administration and fifth for Environmental Policy and Management.
Centers
SIPA is home to five centers:
* Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP): Supports microeconomic research to investigate the sources of poverty and to inform practical interventions to address them.
*
Center on Global Energy Policy
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(CGEP): Provides independent, balanced, data-driven analysis to help policymakers navigate the complex world of energy.
* Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG): Produces policy-oriented research on global economic governance.
* Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR): Contributes to the resolution of international deadly conflict through research, education and practice. It was founded in 1997 by professor Andrea Bartoli as the International Conflict Resolution Program. The center was renamed in 2002, and it is a
research
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center located within the
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
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.
*
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) is a research center that is part of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York. It was founded in 1951 by President of Columbia Dwight D. Eisen ...
(SIWPS): Founded in 1951 under the sponsorship of Dwight D. Eisenhower, during his tenure as president of Columbia University, SIWPS was created to promote understanding of the "disastrous consequences of war upon man's spiritual, intellectual, and material progress". The institute has become one of the leading research centers on international relations in the United States.
Publications
'' Journal of International Affairs'' was established in 1947 and is the oldest university-affiliated publication in the field of international relations; it is edited by SIPA students. ''The Morningside Post'' is SIPA's student-founded, student-run multimedia news publication. Its content: student-written investigative news about SIPA and the SIPA community, plus world affairs analysis, opinion, and satire.
''Conflict Resolution Journal'' is a dynamic and evolving web-based project founded by SIPA students.
''SIPA News'' is a biannual publication featuring articles by faculty, students, and alumni as well as news about the school.
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former
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* Edward Luck, United Nations expert and SIPA professor
* Gunnar Lund, Ambassador of Sweden to France (2008–present); formerly to the United States
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* Joan E. Spero, President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
* Katie Stanton, head of international strategy,
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Christopher R. Hill
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, former
United States Ambassador to Iraq
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* Alexander K. Sloan (1931) – ''Chargé d'Affaires''
* Paul Knabenshue (1932–1942) – ''Minister''
* Thomas M. Wilson (1942) – ''Ministe ...
and dean of the
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
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*
Merit Janow
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Janow teaches graduate courses in international economic and trade po ...
, the only North American member of the WTO appellate body; former Deputy Assistant
U.S. Trade Representative
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for Japan and China (1990–1993)
* Robert Jervis, one of the most influential
international relations
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scholars, expert on
foreign policy analysis
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FPA is the study of the management of external relations and activities of ...
New York City
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, financier, novelist, and screenwriter
* John Liu, former
New York City Comptroller
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and current member of the
New York State Senate
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Partisan comp ...
* Mark M. Lowenthal, former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Research
* Edward Luck, expert on the
United Nations
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* William H. Luers, retired career diplomat and museum executive
*
Mahmood Mamdani
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, leading Africa scholar
* Jack F. Matlock Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
* Keren Yarhi-Milo, political scientist and director of the
Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
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Michael E. O'Hanlon
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O' ...
Republic of Ireland
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; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
* Arvind Panagariya, professor of economics
* Kenneth Prewitt, political scientist and former director of the
United States Census Bureau
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* David Rothkopf, chairman and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, and Garten Rothkopf, and former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade
* Jeffrey Sachs, chief economic advisor to many governments, former Director of the
UN Millennium Project
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, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals
* Giovanni Sartori, Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University
*
Stephen Sestanovich
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, former Ambassador-at-large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States (NIS)
*
Gary Sick
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, Iran expert and three-time member of the National Security Council
* David Siegel - Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial, Organizational and Strategic Management ; CEO of
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Nobel Prize
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-winning former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the
World Bank
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and former chair of the President's
Council of Economic Advisors
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*
Kenneth Waltz
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, one of the most influential
international relations
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scholars. He is one of the founders of neorealism, or structural realism, in
international relations theory
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.
Notable former faculty
*
Ernst Jaeckh
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* Anton Ernst (1975- ...
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under U.S. President
Jimmy Carter
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Johns Hopkins University
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*
John Ruggie
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, former dean of SIPA; former Assistant Secretary-General and chief advisor for strategic planning to
United Nations
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He continues to serve as the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Business and Human Rights
*
Zalmay Khalilzad
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Amina J. Mohammed
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, Deputy-Secretary-General of the United Nations and former Ministry of Environment of Nigeria
Brookings Institution
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*
Bonnie Erbe
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Nobel Prize
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winner, head of
National Institute of Health
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*
Jim Hightower
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, progressive activist
* Richard M. Smith, chairman and editor-in-chief of ''Newsweek''
*
Frederick Kempe
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