Seminars

International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Policy

  • Founded
    2021
  • Seminar Number
    809

The Seminar explores topics in international relations that have direct implications for contemporary issues of foreign policy. Through regularly hosting a community of scholarly experts engaged in analyzing current events through the lens of the existing academic conversation, the seminar strives to produce rigorous academic analysis of contemporary developments in foreign relations, synthesizing international relations theory and real-world events.

Co-Chairs
Allison Carnegie
ajc2241@columbia.edu

Peter Clement
pc2630@columbia.edu

Ingrid E. Gerstmann
ig79@columbia.edu

Rapporteur
Eric Ryan
ejr2181@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

04/03/2023 707 International Affairs Building / Zoom
4:00 PM
President Carter and the Persian Gulf: Revolution and Betrayal
Gary Sick, Columbia University
Abstract

Abstract

Gary Sick will talk about the origins of the "October Surprise" story, in which the Reagan campaign asked Iran to continue to hold American hostages until after the 1980 election