Robert Jervis was an American political scientist who was the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Jervis was co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs,a series published by Cornell University Press.
Robert L. Gallucci is an American academic and diplomat,who formerly worked as president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He previously served as dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University,from 1996 to June 2009. Prior to his appointment in 1996,for over two decades he had served in various governmental and international agencies,including the Department of State and the United Nations.
Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science &International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
Kenneth Guy Lieberthal is an American professor and politician known as an expert on Chinese politics,political economy,domestic and foreign policy,and on the evolution of US-China relations.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. 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 PhD program in Sustainable Development.
Robert L. Suettinger is an American international relations scholar currently serving as a senior advisor at The Stimson Center and an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). He was national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) from 1997 to 1998 during the Clinton administration. While there,he oversaw the preparation of national intelligence estimates for the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. His areas of specialty are the People's Republic of China and the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
Anthony H. Cordesman was an American national security analyst. He held the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and was a national security analyst on a number of global conflicts.
Richard Kevin Betts is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who centers on U.S. foreign policy. He is the Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies Emeritus in the Department of Political Science,former director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University,and former director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Nobuo Tanaka is the Japanese official and the former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.
David Sandalow is the Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the lead author,most recently,of the Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap and Guide to Chinese Climate Policy.
The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,also known as the Belfer Center,is a research center located at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts,in the United States.
Carlos Pascual is a Cuban-American diplomat and the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine under President Barack Obama and Bill Clinton respectively. He served at the U.S. Agency for international Development from 1983 to 1995,and at the White House National Security Council from 1995 to 2000,ultimately as senior director for Russia,Ukraine and Eurasia. He was the State Department Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia,and subsequently the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization from 2003 to 2005. Later he served at the Brookings institution and was appointed Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the State Department's Bureau of Energy from 2011 to 2014.
Brian H. Hook is an American diplomat,lawyer and government official. In 2021,he joined Cerberus Capital Management as vice chairman for global investments. He is an adjunct professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
The Center on Global Energy Policy is a research center located within the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. The center's director is Jason Bordoff,and it features senior research scholars such as Richard Nephew and Varun Sivaram,as well as visiting fellows and adjunct senior research scholars such as Cheryl LaFleur and Richard Kauffman. The center's stated mission is to "advance smart,actionable and evidence-based energy and climate solutions through research,education and dialogue".
Stephen G. Burns is an American lawyer and former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul M. Dabbar is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Bohr Quantum Technology,a company developing quantum networking systems. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
The Art of Sanctions:A View from the Field is a 2017 book written by Richard Nephew. It discusses the role of sanctions as a foreign policy tool. Nephew argues about interpreting targets' responses to sanctions based on two critical factors:pain and resolve. When sanctions have achieved maximum effectiveness that lies in the application of pain against a target,but targets may have significant resolve to resist,tolerate,or overcome this pain. The author believes that sanctions have achieved maximum effectiveness resulted Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal,is an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program reached in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between Iran,the P5+1,and the European Union. The nuclear deal received a mixed international reaction,with many countries expressing praise or hope it could achieve the denuclearization of Iran. Some of Iran's neighbouring countries and U.S. lawmakers expressed skepticism about the agreement,seeing it as critically flawed.
Jason Eric Bordoff is an American energy policy expert,and a researcher specializing in the intersection of economics,energy,environment,and national security. In April 2021,he was named a Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School. Since 2013 he has served as the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs,where he is also a professor of professional practice. From 2009 to 2013 he served in senior roles in the Obama administration on the Council on Environmental Quality,the National Economic Council,and the National Security Council.
Edward Fishman is an American author,international relations scholar,and former diplomat who is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy and an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He additionally holds fellowships at the Center for a New American Security and the Atlantic Council.
