The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy is dedicated to interdisciplinary social science, pioneering research, shaping public policy, and integrating knowledge and methods across the social sciences.
The Institute of War and Peace Studies was founded in 1951 under the sponsorship of Dwight D. Eisenhower during his tenure as president of Columbia University. Eisenhower created the Institute to promote an understanding of the "disastrous consequences of war upon man's spiritual,...