School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (also known as SIPA) is an international affairs and public policy school and one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City.

SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree programs in a range of fields, as well the Executive MPA and Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development.

SIPA offers a number of dual-degree programs with other schools of Columbia University and offers international dual degree programs with the London School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, EAESP-FGV in SÃ£o Paulo, the University of Tokyo and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore through the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN).

SIPA's alumni include former heads of state, business leaders, journalists, diplomats, and elected representatives. Half of SIPAâ€™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.

History

Columbia University's School of International Affairs was founded in 1946, in the aftermath of World War II. Emphasizing practical training, the mission of the School was to foster understanding of regions of vital interest and to prepare diplomats, officials, and other professionals to meet the complexities of the postwar world. It originated in dynamic regional institutes that drew on Columbia's renowned faculties in history, economics, political science, linguistics, and other traditional fields. The School awarded a Master of International Affairs (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), 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 (SIPA).

In the early 1990s, SIPA began appointing its own faculty, supplementing the distinguished social and natural scientists and humanists 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, economic advisors in both the Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush administrations, a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, and many distinguished research scholars.

In 1992, with support from the World Bank, the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) was established to provide mid-career finance professionals with the skills required for effective design and implementation of economic policy, emphasizing the problems of developing and transition economies. Students who complete PEPMâ€™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 and earth systems. The ESP MPA program is offered in cooperation with The Earth Institute and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. In fall 2004 SIPA inaugurated its first doctoral program, the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Sustainable Development, which combines elements of a traditional graduate education in social science, particularly economics, with a significant training in the natural sciences.

Academics

International Dual Degree Programs

Through the Global Public Policy Network, SIPA offers a number of dual-degree programs with the University of Tokyo, the London School of Economics, the Institut d'Ã‰tudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Concentrations and Specializations

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 (with focus areas in Global Energy Management & Policy; Energy Resource Management; and Environmental Policy & Management); 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: Advanced Policy and Economic Analysis; 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.

Rankings & Reputation

Foreign Policy ranked SIPA fifth in its 2015 ranking of "Top Master's Programs for Policy Career in International Relations". In addition, SIPA is ranked fourth by U.S. News & World Report Best Graduates Schools 2014 world rankings for International Politics and third 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 (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.
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (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

Notable alumni

Madeleine Albright former United States Secretary of State
Jose Ramos Horta (graduate student), President of East Timor (2007â€"); former Prime Minister; Nobel Laureate
Salim Ahmed Salim, Prime Minister of Tanzania, Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, President of the United Nations General Assembly
Joseph Kofi Adda, Member of Ghanaian Parliament for Navrongo Central and Ghanaian Minister for Energy
Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, Minister of External Affairs of Nigeria and UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
David Kay, Chief UN weapons inspector and head of Iraq Survey Group
George Tenet, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Howard Warren Buffett, former policy advisor, Executive Office of the President of the United States (for Barack Obama), executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation
William Clark, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to India
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City and former Public Advocate
Ina Drew, former Chief Investment Officer for J.P. Morgan; forced to resign after JPM suffered a trading loss of $2 billion in April/May 2012
Pamela Druckerman, writer and freelance journalist
Yifei Fan, newly appointed deputy governor of the People's Bank of China
Daniel Fried, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Steven Fulop, Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
Nellie Gorbea, Secretary of State of Rhode Island
Victor Gotbaum, Head of DC37, the largest municipal union in New York City
Patricia M. Haslach, former U.S. Ambassador to Laos
Glenn Kessler (journalist), Washington Post reporter and author
ShinjirÅ Koizumi, son of former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi; secretary of the Japanese National Diet
Stephen Krasner, Director for Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State and Professor of International Relations at Stanford University
Edward Luck, United Nations expert and SIPA professor
Gunnar Lund, Ambassador of Sweden to France (2008â€"present); formerly to the United States
Jim Nicholson, former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the United States
Robert D. Reischauer, Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Curtis Roosevelt, international civil servant and professor
James Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the State Department (1997â€"May 2000)
Vuslat DoÄŸan SabancÄ±, billionaire Turkish businesswoman and chairwoman of HÃ¼rriyet
William E. Schaufele, Jr., former U.S. representative, UN Security Council; former Ambassador to Poland
Andrew J. Shapiro 1995, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (2009â€")
Claire Shipman, ABC News correspondent
Sichan Siv, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Richard Mills Smith, CEO of Newsweek
Frank Snepp, journalist and former CIA analyst
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, Twitter
Jens Ulltveit-Moe, Founder and CEO of Umoe AS
Alexander Vershbow, Deputy Secretary General of NATO and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Ross Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Brian Wynter, Governor of the Bank of Jamaica
Donald Yamamoto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and former ambassador to Ethiopia
Peter Zalmayev, human rights activist and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative

Notable faculty

Chris Blattman, development economist, blogger
Jagdish Bhagwati, trade economist
Richard K. Betts, prominent political scientist and director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
J. Bowyer Bell, historian, artist, and art critic
Akeel Bilgrami, philosopher of language and of mind
Guillermo Calvo, economist for macroeconomics and monetary economics, famous for Calvo (staggered) contracts
David Dinkins, first African American mayor of New York City
Mamadou Diouf, historian
Michael W. Doyle, the theorist of the liberal â€œdemocratic peaceâ€
Albert Fishlow, noted expert on Brazil and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
Howard Steven Friedman, Health Economist and Statistician at the United Nations
Merit Janow, the only North American member of the WTO appellate body; former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1990â€"1993)
Robert Jervis, one of the most influential international relations scholars, expert on foreign policy analysis and political psychology
Rashid Khalidi, historian and former director of SIPA's Middle East Institute
Kenneth Lipper, former deputy mayor of New York City, financier, novelist, and screenwriter
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
William H. Luers, retired career diplomat and museum executive
Mahmood Mamdani, leading Africa scholar
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Mary Robinson, the first female President of the Republic of Ireland; 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
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, 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, former Ambassador-at-large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States (NIS)
Gary Sick, Iran expert and three-time member of the National Security Council
David Siegel - Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial, Organizational and Strategic ManagementÂ ; CEO of Investopedia
David C. Stark, professor of sociology
Alfred Stepan, professor of government
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors
Kenneth Waltz, one of the most influential international relations scholars. He is one of the founders of neorealism, or structural realism, in international relations theory.

Notable former faculty

Ernst Jaeckh (1875â€"1959), German-born orientalist and founder of the Middle East Institute
Lisa Anderson, former dean of SIPA and a leading expert on the Middle East; former president of the American University in Cairo
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Robert C. Lieberman, former interim dean of SIPA and provost of the Johns Hopkins University
John Ruggie, former dean of SIPA; former Assistant Secretary-General and chief advisor for strategic planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He continues to serve as the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Business and Human Rights
Zalmay Khalilzad, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Notable former international fellows

Michael Armacost, Diplomat, Deputy Secretary of State, President of Brookings Institution
Bonnie Erbe, Host of the PBS television show To the Contrary
Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize Winner, Head of National Institute of Health
Jim Hightower, Progressive Activist
Richard M. Smith, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek
Frederick Kempe, President, Atlantic Council of the United States

References

External links

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy
Journal of International Affairs
Conflict Resolution Journal
The Harriman Institute
The Morningside Post
SIPA News
Global Public Policy Network
International Fellows Program

Minggu, 08 Oktober 2017