SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | JUNE 2006 SIPAnews SIPAnews VOLUME XIX No. 2 JUNE 2006 Published biannually by School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University From the Dean From the Editors contents his is a special issue of SIPA News, one that is intended both to con- s SIPA’s newest graduates, we are honored to contribute to the A HISTORY p.42 ALUMNI p.82 p.96 p.110 School’s history in this 60th anniversary special edition of SIPA City Councils from PROFILES Mexican Alumni in Adam Klauber: The Road Yang Lan: China’s vey the flavor of the first 60 years of the School’s history and to p.2 invite a conversation with our alumni and friends about who we News. When we first chose the subject for this issue, we had lit- Coast to Coast, by Politics: The Future of Taken, by Rebecca Oprah, by Paula T A 60 Years of the School Jason Stramaglia p.66 Mexican Democracy Has Leicht Margulies have been and what we should be. There are far more people and momen- tle idea of the magnitude of the task ahead or of the adventure of explo- of International and Bill Root: Life Before, SIPA as Its Middle tous events omitted than included in these pages, and at each turn we had ration on which we were about to embark. We soon discovered two Public Affairs, by Lisa p.44 During and After Name, by Gustavo Cano p.98 p.112 Anderson Columbia’s School of to make difficult choices about what we could include and what we had to things: that the history of the School and the depth and breadth of its The Money Makers: Alan Grafman: Archie Alumni Snapshots SIPA Alumni at the International Affairs, p.84 and the Gang Find Life influence on our world are even richer than we could have imagined, leave out. We hope, however, that this selective taste of what our World’s Central Banks, by William Root John Murolo: Keeping in New Media, by global community represents will merely provoke our readers to fill out the and that a surprisingly scant record of the School resides within its walls. FEATURES by Andrew Monahan Columbia Safe, by Emmanuel Letouzé story. We want the dozens more SIPA sweethearts to tell us about their To find the stories in these pages, we contacted hundreds of alumni, p.69 Lauren Marks INSIDE SIPA p.20 p.48 Stacy Sullivan: Speak p.100 romances, we want the human rights advocates, environmentalists, diplo- professors and administrators. For our profiles, we didn’t necessarily Human Rights Across Back to School: When Out, by Veronika Ruff p.86 Jim Foti: Forging p.113 mats, community organizers, bankers and teachers to tell us the stories of choose the School’s most well-known names. Instead, we looked for Disciplines, by Deborah SIPA Grads Go Home to Melissa Boyle Mahle: Alliances, by Chantal Profile: Margaret their careers, we want to hear about how the School has contributed to those who were using their degrees in creative and often understated Baron Teach, by Anthony p.72 I, Spy, by Lindsay Schuster Reynolds, Director of Christopher J. Falco: satisfying lives and a better world. Please let us know what we have left ways to make our world a better one. There is no such thing as a “typi- Deckoff Hamilton SIPA Alumni Relations, p.25 Faith and Service, by p.102 by Aaron Clark out and tell us your funny stories and gratifying accomplishments at cal” SIPA graduate. Everyone who leaves this institution contributes Workshops: Practical p.50 Anuja Pande Joshi p.88 Juliet Wurr: Founding www.sipa.columbia.edu/sipa60/—and do join us back on campus in October. something special to the world outside. Here we’ve highlighted just a few. Prep for the Real Messy Building SIPA, by Amy Jeremy Druker: Follies, by Michaela p.114 An engaged and involved alumni population can build a better SIPA, World, by Lucia Vancura Schoeman and JoAnn p.74 Transitions, Online, Cabrera SIPA 60th Anniversary: Crawford Jonathan Kushner: by Chris Mayo Around the World Lisa Anderson and it is crucial that we continue to share our experiences with each p.30 Bridging the E-Divide, p.104 James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations other. This is a school without shelves of yearbooks, without volumes of Documentaries That p.54 by Aaron Clark p.90 Tom Wallin: The Energy p.116 Matter, by Gabrielle Dean theses, without albums of photos recording the lives and efforts of its Torture and Healing, by Anselme Sadiki: Report, by Kate Hill SIPA 2066, by Galanek p.77 students. With its ever-changing programs and evolving ideas, the Patrick Falby Standing up for the Emmanuel Letouzé Yukari Sato: The DRC, by Remi Bello p.106 School reflects the tumultuous world in which it resides. SIPA’s anniver- p.34 p.58 Assassin, by Andrew Sumant Sinha: Wall sary is an opportunity to remember the past, but also to create a record We the Peoples of the A Good Place to Fall in Monahan p.92 Street to Worli, by United Nations, by Libby for the School’s future generations. For us, working on this issue sparked Love: Celebrating SIPA’s Philippe Newlin: SIP Wine, Probal DasGupta Morgan Sweethearts, by Joshua p.80 by Anuja Pande Joshi a greater interest in and passion for SIPA, and we hope it will do the Berger and Jayati Vora Michael Eberstadt: Rack p.108 same for you. p.38 & Soul, by Libby Morgan p.94 Richard Greenwald: A SIPA Goes to the Polls, Patricia Cloherty: The Business Approach to by Michael Roston Iron Lady of Russian Nonprofits, by Patricia Tom Randall (MIA ’06) and Veronika Ruff (MIA ’06) Business, by J. Quinn Eszter Margit SIPA News Co-Editors Martin 60 YEARS OF THE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS by Lisa Anderson THE BEGINNINGS n April 7, 1946, the New York Herald Tribune carried the headline “Columbia Plans International Affairs School.” By the next fall, a first Oclass of just 20 students had been admitted to the University’s newest graduate program, looking for what the Tribune described as “integrated training in international business, economics, and government affairs.” The time seemed ripe for such a venture. The Second World War exposed hundreds of American university faculty to war service, notably in the State Department and the research and analysis unit of the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency. Columbia faculty were prominent among them. Columbia faculty were also significantly represented at the conferences in Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco that led to the establishment of the United Nations in October 1945. A new day was dawning as the United States took up a global role at the end of the war, and that entailed responsibilities for the nation’s universities. SIPA NEWS 3 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 Charles Issawi, credited with creating the Philip E. Mosely served as director of both Frank Tannenbaum was professor of Latin economic history of the Middle East as a the Russian Institute and the Institute on American history at Columbia from 1935 until field of study, joined Columbia University Western Europe and as associate dean of his retirement in 1962 and a founder of the in 1951 and was named Ragnar Nurkse the School during his years as professor of University Seminars. After an early career as a Professor of Economics. He later was international relations at Columbia between labor leader, journalist and economic appointed director of Columbia’s Near 1946 and 1972. He was in the State advisor—in the 1930s he served as an advisor and Middle East Institute. His published Department during World War II and to the Mexican government and played a key works include a series of edited volumes attended the 1945 Potsdam Conference; role in the development of the Farm Security on the economic history of the region between 1955 and 1963, he was the Bill during the New Deal—he turned to a since 1800, culminating in An Economic director of studies at the Council on university career as a historian. His major History of the Middle East and North Foreign Relations. works include Ten Keys to Latin America Africa (1982). In 1975, Issawi moved to (1962). > Princeton University as Bayard E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, a posi- tion he held until his retirement in 1986. W. T. R. Fox, War and Peace Leland Goodrich, professor of international Institute director and professor organization and administration. of international relations. As the faculty committee that had debated the establishment ed curriculum worked out and the educational result achieved in From the outset, the School embraced innovation, and stu- director detailed in the same report, there were 108 students at of the School at Columbia argued: the work of the students who graduated from it.” dents were soon exposed not only to the full-time faculty of the School, drawn from “36 states and a number of foreign The increased efficiency and rapidity of transporta- From this success was born the idea of a school of interna- Columbia but to courses taught by “specialists drawn from the countries.” tion and communication have ended for this country tional affairs. The school was originally to be called the “School United Nations Secretariat.” As the first director (and later The faculty of the School were uniquely equipped for the the possibility of isolation, either as a physical factor of Foreign Affairs,” but the University President Nicholas dean) of the School, Schuyler Wallace, presciently put it in project they had undertaken, since they themselves combined or as a national policy...There must therefore be Murray Butler, a convinced internationalist who had won the announcing this new initiative, “this is the first course offered by distinguished scholarship with wide experience in policymak- developed within the United States a body of men Nobel Peace Price in 1931 for his efforts to outlaw war, argued any University which attempts to draw upon the increased cul- ing.