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Gary Sick on U.S. Compromising with Iran
Council on Foreign Relations, July 21, 2008
“Neither side wants to show that it is losing face, or that it is caving in or appeasing the other side, but both sides are interested in finding a way out of this conundrum,” says Gary Sick, professor at Columbia University.
SIPA Alumna Sarah Burd Sharps (MIA '87) Co-authors First Ever American Human Development Report
Scheduled for official launch on July 16 at the National Press Club in DC, The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 is the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. The project, which is funded by Oxfam America, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, with additional funding from the Annenberg Foundation, is a 'nonpartisan, independent effort to introduce to America a well-honed international approach and tool for measuring human well-being – the human development approach and the human development index.' For more information on the report and the project, please visit: www.measureofamerica.org.
SIPA News—"New York Matters"—is Online. 
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor—US Foreign Policy: Beyond 2008 
Joseph Stiglitz,
Nobel Prize
winner, and Linda Bilmes—The Three Trillion Dollar War
Guillermo Calvo,
Director of PEPM—A Panel Discussion: Emerging Markets and the Subprime Crisis
Edward Glaeser—Urban Colossus
Maina Kiai, Chairman, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights—Kenya: Forward to Peace
Zalmay Khalilzad, United States Ambassador to the United Nations—Challenges Of The Broader Middle East
Three Decades of the Islamic Republic of Iran Series Videos
Final Presentations: Workshop in Applied Development
April 24th & 25th, 2008