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Political Scientist Robert Jervis was quoted in a piece for the LA Times regarding Donald Trump's disruptive comments regarding an energy pipeline at this summer's NATO summit.

President Trump upended the show of unity at NATO’s annual summit on Wednesday as many allies had feared, claiming that Germany "is totally controlled by" and "captive to Russia" and inflating his demands that they spend more on defense to an unrealistic level.

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DEAN FRED HARRIS PROFILED AND INTERVIEWED IN THE COLUMBIA RECORD

Political Scientist and Dean of the Social Science Division Fred Harris was interviewed in a front-page profile for Columbia Record, where he shared his vision and goals for his deanship.

Economist Eric Verhoogen was quoted in a feature for Philly.com examining the community impact of the sneaker start-up Patos, which sustainably sources artisan-made footwear produced in Peru.

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 Michael Carlos Best, assistant professor of Economics at Columbia University, was awarded the President’s Global Innovation Fund for the Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative, a project that will study economic policy in Jordan with a focus on taxation and public spending.