Ed Pilkington | The Guardian | 1/12/23

Kian Tajbakhsh | The Atlantic | 11/1/2022

Kian Tajbkhsh | Public Seminar | 9/30/2022

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Joseph Slaughter, has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Before serving as the Director of

Adam Tooze | The New Statesman | January 25, 2022

Qin Gao | Child Indicators Research | November 28, 2021

Kevin Funk | Foreign Policy in Focus | November 29, 2021

Adam Tooze | London Review of Books | November 2021

Qin Gao| Columbia China Center for Social Policy | November 3, 2021

Wafaa El-Sadr | U.S. News | November 1, 2021

Kian Tajbakhsh | Tales of My Two Cities | September 7, 2021

M.A. in Global Thought graduate Addis Goldman (Class of 2021) published a book review titled,"Finding Fukuyama's Ends: Between Aspirations and History" for the book, After the End of History:

M.A. in Global Thought graduate Michelle Lee successfully founded and led a virtual tech leadership program titled Young Tech Leaders of the Middle East.

Carol Gluck was quoted in a recent New York Times article on the Olympic Games in Japan

M.A. in Global Thought Graduate Claudia Herbert Colfer (Class of 2019) recently launched Wasi - an iOS app that provides a platform for people to easily make a positive change in the world. Wasi

Joseph Stiglitz | The Guardian | June 8, 2021

Vishakha N. Desai | Columbia University Press Blog | May 27, 2021

What is “smart cities” technology? Do all smart city technologies pose equivalent cybersecurity risks? What are some of the most prevalent cyber threats posed by these technologies? Join host

Masters in Global Thought alum Shagun Sethi (MA '20) recently published her research titled, "Walk With Women: Gendered Perceptions of Safety in Urban Spaces" with international nonprofit Leading

HarperCollins seeks to publish Erlick's The Measure in 2022.

Shagun Sethi (MA '21) | Smart Cities World | March 8, 2021

JANUARY 20, 2021 - The Global Thought Experience (GTE), an initiative by the Committee on Global Thought, aims to connect Columbia undergraduate students with non-profit groups in New York and the

Katharina Pistor | January 12, 2021 | Project Syndicate

The Committee on Global Thought is hiring an Administrative Assistant (Work Study) for the Spring 2021 semester!

Adam Tooze | e-flux | December, 2020

August 2020

Ayça Çubukçu - July 15, 2020

Undergraduate study on the impact of coronavirus on student employment featured in Forbes

CGT Member Rosalind Morris elected to the Policy and Planning Committee (PPC), representing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

July 1, 2020

Ben Orlove | 21 de Junio

Review of Sarah Brouillete's UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary
Joseph Slaughter | June 10 | boundary2
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Reinhold Martin | June 2020 | Places Journal

Mark Mazower | May 20 | Financial Times
CGT Member Professor Mark Mazower reviews two books on the Habsburg empire in the Financial Times.

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Joseph Stiglitz | June 15 | The Irish Times

Bernard Harcourt - 17. Juni

“The 11th Circuit is racing to the bottom when it comes to reviewing prisoner appeals,” said CGT Member Bernard Harcourt.

What's Behind North Korea's Dwindling Defection Rate?

Bernard Harcourt dans Le Monde: « C’est peut-être la fin de la contre-révolution américaine »

CGT Member Mark Hansen joins Columbia Journalism Faculty to Denounce Police Attacks on Journalists

June 2, 2020 | Courtesy of France24

Rose Huang, Cheryl Wang, and Ava Ellis | May 11, 2020

New York Times | May 19, 2020

France 24 | June 2, 2020

May 17, 2020

The deadline for nominations for the Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize has been extended to May 14th.

Click here for more information and to nominate a leader.

In response to the guidelines issued by the University as part of its response to COVID-19, the Committee on Global Thought and Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought have postponed all programming

CALL FOR FACILITATORS

The David Bartsch and Joan Haffenreffer Bartsch Fellows to the UCGT

M.A in Global Thought Students Meet and Discuss With Obama Foundation Scholars

“Born to Be” documentary gives a humanizing look into the world of transgender medicine

From paying taxes and liveable wages to advocating government regulations to protect the environment, we need proof corporations are changing.

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy

Why Capitalism's Salvation Depends on Taxation

Columbia Professor and CGT Member Bernard E. Harcourt's book Exposed was recently released in French. "La Société d'exposition," translated by Sophie Renaut, takes a critical look at our new digital

Congratulations to 2018 M.A. in Global Thought graduate Julia Biango!

Vishakha N. Desai Jury Member for 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prizes

Kian Tajbakhsh featured in CBC Radio Documentary on Richard Rorty

Planning for spring semester? Here’s what you should take for your Global Core

The 2019-2020 David Bartsch and Joan Haffenreffer Bartsch Fellows to the UCGT

CGT Signature Research Project "Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World" awarded major grant from the Warhol Foundation

Apply Now: CGT Summer 2019 Work-Study Student

Youth in a Changing World (YCW) Project Update

Rising Tides Will Sink Global Order

What Is Global Thought, anyway?

Beyond GDP

How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right

Globalization's Government Turns 10

Disaster Capitalism Comes to Puerto Rico

TB, NCDs, and the Lessons of HIV

Can American Democracy Come Back?

Everyday Tech: In Search of Mundane Tactics

Youth in a Changing Brazil

An Alliance With We The People

The American Economy Is Rigged

The Economics of the Climate Crisis

People Vs. Money in America's Midterm Elections

CGT Post-doc Ayça Çubukçu Book Release: "For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq"

Who Wants What from Iran Now? The Post-Nuclear Deal U.S. Policy Debate

Columbia University Press announces the winner of the fourth annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award.

The David Bartsch and Joan Haffenreffer Bartsch Fellows to the UCGT

The Global Opportunities (GO!) program, which CGT offered from 2017-2019, linked M.A. in Global Thought students to research projects during residencies at Columbia Global Centers. GO! internships

Macroeconomics Predicted the Wrong Crisis

Why All Economists Must Learn Lessons Before Next US Downturn

Beyond Secular Stagnation

The Global Opportunities (GO!) program, which CGT offered from 2017-2019, linked M.A. in Global Thought students to research projects during residencies at Columbia Global Centers. GO! internships

The Global Opportunities (GO!) program, which CGT offered from 2017-2019, linked M.A. in Global Thought students to research projects during residencies at Columbia Global Centers. GO! internships

Summer Intern Victoria Lacombe

We are excited to announce our new faculty member, Manan Ahmed.

Fall Graduate Course: "Globalization and The Problems of World Order"

Fall 2018 Global Core: Undergraduate Seminar in Global Thought "Inquiries into an Interconnected World"

Anti-Semitism and Britain’s Hall of Mirrors

Opinion: Trump’s fixation on the trade deficit with China is silly

Why should we keep murderers in prison until they die? Parole makes moral sense, even for cop-killers

I Dream of a Truly Transparent City

When Shall We Overcome?

A Better Way to Fight Corporate Tax Avoidance

Post-Davos Depression

Democrats should take Trump’s immigration deal seriously

We are pleased to announce the addition of Tori Gross to the CGT Staff as M.A. Director of Studies!

Don’t expect debt payments from Puerto Rico any time soon

The Globalization of Our Discontent

Ending AIDS: What Got Us Here, Won’t Get Us There

The Committee on Global Thought’s Annual Report for the 2016-2017 academic year is now available.

The Chilling Irony of Trump's Economic Experiment

New Undergraduate Seminar "Global 20: Youth in an Interconnected World"

Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World

Event Summary: 'Fight the Power': A Global Conversation Exploring Hip-Hop and Social Consciousness

Conflicts and Crisis in the Faculties: The Humanities in an Age of Identity

Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, won Honorable Mention for his 2016 book "The Taliban's Virtual Emirate" at Columbia University Press's Distinguished Book Awards.

America Has a Monopoly Problem--and It's Huge

Wealth before health? Why intellectual property laws are facing a counterattack

A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migration

Déjà Voodoo

The Assault On The Rohingya Is Not Only About Religion — It’s Also About Land

Global Think-In: Thoughts on a Changing World

Home Economics

Carol Gluck  discusses the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the Politics of Memory.

Can the euro zone and euro be saved? Stiglitz weighs in