Robert Jervis

Robert Jervis

Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of Political Science

Columbia University

1333 International Affairs Building

212-854-4610

rlj1@columbia.edu

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Security policy, decision-making, international politics in the post-Cold War era

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Alexander Cooley on Central Asia's Place in a Transforming Global Order

Friday, January 22, 2021

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon argue that President Biden may not be able to return the U.S. to its position of global dominance, and draw on arguments from their book, Exit from Hegemony, to discuss Central Asia's role in a post-U.S. international order. Read the piece in the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs.

VIRTUAL EVENT. Navalny and the Kremlin: Politics and Protest in Russia

Monday, February 1, 2021 - 12:00pm ET

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar (register here) and streamed via YouTube Live. Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, jointly hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In this special session, we consult with leading journalists, academics and communications scholars to analyze the latest political developments, media coverage, and the evolving role of social media in Russia’s protests and opposition.

Yana Gorokhovskaia Writes on Navalny's Return to Russia for The Guardian

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Yana Gorokhovskaia (Harriman Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016-19) published an analysis in The Guardian of Alexei Navalny's return to Russia and his strategy of appealing to the people, over the heads of Russia's crooked system (January 19).

VIRTUAL FORUM. Liberty and Freedom: Kościuszko's Legacy

Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 7:00am - 12:00pm EST (2:00pm - 7:00pm EET)

Please join us for a Virtual International Forum on Freedom and Liberty on the occasion of the 275th anniversary of the birth of Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko. For more information and to register, please click here to view the forum website. This event is co-sponsored by Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), the Harriman Institute of Columbia University (USA), and European Humanities University (Belarusian university in exile, Lithuania).

Gail Archer Interviewed about Teaching Music during the Pandemic and Upcoming Organ Concerts

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Gail Archer (Professor of Professional Practice, Music, Barnard) was interviewed by Straus News, the publisher of 17 weekly NY newspapers, about her career as a female organist, her academic career, teaching music during the pandemic, and her upcoming series of three concerts.

VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Talk. Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia by Edward Schatz

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 9:00am ET

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar (register here) and streamed via YouTube Live. Please join us for a conversation with Edward Schatz, author of Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Stanford University Press, January 2021), joined by discussant Colleen Wood (Political Science, Columbia University) and moderator Alexander Cooley (Director, Harriman Institute).

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