Inside the Situation Room
Prerequisite: Course Application.
In an era increasingly defined by geopolitical competition, it is more important than ever for future policymakers to understand why and how foreign policy decisions are made. Inside the Situation Room, co-taught by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, employs insights from diverse academic fields—including political psychology, domestic politics, and international relations—and the direct experience of high-level principals in the room to understand the key factors which underpin a nation’s most crucial decisions. This course allows students to engage with a range of case studies and examine decision-making in a variety of historical and contemporary contexts, from the search for Osama bin Laden, to the “red line” in Syria, to negotiating with Iran.
Students will be taught how to analyze and understand the complex interplay between individual psychology, domestic politics, public opinion, bureaucracy, the international environment, and other factors which feed into decisions about foreign policy—from crisis diplomacy to the use of force, signaling and perception, intelligence and its analysis, the deployment of other instruments of statecraft, and more. Through this course, students will think carefully and analytically about how leaders and other actors view the world, how they arrive at their decisions, and how various social, political, and psychological factors shape the policies they devise to promote their interests abroad. For more information, visit: https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/situationroom
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Keren Yarhi-Milo
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Lincoln A Mitchell
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Lincoln A Mitchell
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Lincoln A Mitchell
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Lincoln A Mitchell
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Carlos Vargas-Ramos
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Carlos Vargas-Ramos
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Jayme R Schlesinger
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Jayme R Schlesinger
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Jayme R Schlesinger
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Kyle Evanoff
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Kyle Evanoff
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Kyle Evanoff
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Cybele Chester
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Cybele Chester
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Cybele Chester
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Garrett A Hinck
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Garrett A Hinck
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