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42-417: IWPS may refer to: Institute of War and Peace Studies , an American research center created in 1951 until a name alteration in 2003 Inland Waterways Protection Society , a British organisation founded in 1958 to work for the restoration of the canal system Individual World Poetry Slam , an annual poetry slam tournament held since 2004 Topics referred to by

84-483: A " pragmatic meliorist " who believed in the possibility of improving how international relations were conducted and in highlighting the normative meanings of domestic and world policies. Former colleague and dean David Truman later said, "He was an impressive scholar with a tremendous range. He was interested in the whole political scene, not just international relations, and was always full of ideas about how to do things better." One of his longtime courses at Columbia

126-481: A B.S. in 1932. He then obtained his masters and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago , in 1934 and 1940, respectively. There he was among a group of students, which also included V. O. Key, Jr. and David Truman , who studied with the pioneering political scientist Charles E. Merriam . He also studied international law under Quincy Wright . Harold Lasswell and his approach towards political analysis

168-427: A U.S. pioneer in establishing the systematic study of statecraft and war as an academic discipline." Another scholar, James McAllister, noted that Fox's influence at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies was being felt well after his death. Two-time National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft recalled of his time at Columbia's graduate school in the early 1950s, "My guiding star was William T. R. Fox, who had

210-519: A farewell speech to the university in January 1953, just days before being inaugurated as President of the United States , he listed the institute as one of his projects for which "my hopes are especially high." The creation of the institute was one of the first that took place in the aftermath of World War II to pursue international security studies , with the others that followed in that decade being

252-562: A heart attack and been hospitalized two months earlier. In 1991, The Evolution of Theory in International Relations , a Festschrift-like collection of essays in honor of William T. R. Fox, was published, many of which had been featured in the special Spring/Summer 1990 issue of Journal of International Affairs . Edited by Robert L. Rothstein, it featured contributions from Kenneth N. Waltz , Robert Jervis , Glenn H. Snyder , Louis Henkin , Ernst B. Haas , and others, as well as

294-571: A new category of power able to occupy the highest status in a world in which, as the war then raging demonstrated, states could challenge and fight each other on a global scale. According to him, there were (at that moment) three states that were superpowers: the United States , the Soviet Union , and the British Empire . The book forecast the directions that Soviet-American relations would take if

336-438: A preface from his wife, Annette Baker Fox . In her essay, Professor Elizabeth C. Hanson said that, "Bill Fox helped to shape international relations as a major academic field and to demonstrate the relevance of its theoretical investigations to policy making." She went on to describe his contributions as a professor and colleague, writing that, "Fox's influence as teacher and mentor on the discipline of international relations

378-540: A visiting research fellow at Australian National University in 1968 and 1979. In addition, he was a visiting professor at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1971, as well as the Claude T. Bissell Visiting Professor of Canadian-American Relations at the University of Toronto for 1982–83. He saw Canada as an ideal vehicle for studying what was similar and different compared to the U.S. in foreign policy, and in 1985 he published

420-447: Is carried out through the university's Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs . The goal has been that members would engage in research, which would inform their teaching in other university departments and schools, and that teaching would likewise benefit the research in return. The institute would become the only non-area-specializing one within

462-418: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies The impetus for the institute's formation came from President of Columbia Dwight D. Eisenhower . The former general had written to a friend that he found it "almost incomprehensible that no American university has undertaken the continuous study of

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504-544: The Cold War and nuclear strategy ; these areas, and especially the first, were of particular interest to Fox. Meanwhile, Fox remained focused on developing the academic discipline of international relations theory and was one of the key influential figures in discussions about that theory during this period. Under the leadership of Fox, the Institute of War and Peace Studies became a viable operation; John A. Krout, dean of

546-763: The United States Army 's research group in the mid-1950s that later became its Strategic Studies Institute , the programs in the 1950s that later became the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University , the Department of War Studies at King's College London in the 1950s, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London in 1958. The initial director of

588-468: The Institute of War and Peaces Studies was Professor William T. R. Fox . (Eisenhower had originally asked George F. Kennan to take on the job but was rebuffed; Fox, reluctant to take on administrative work, had attempted to refuse too, but Eisenhower had simply said, "So glad you will accept the position." ) Fox said the institute would reject simplistic explanations for the causes of war , and instead endeavor to understand war as "a method of protecting

630-982: The International Relations Faculty Seminar led by Professor Robert Jervis , the Comparative Defense Studies Program, the Center for International Conflict Resolution , and the Columbia Defense and Security Program. Following the passing of Jervis in 2021, the seminar was renamed the University Seminar in International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Policy. [REDACTED] Media related to Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Wikimedia Commons William T. R. Fox William Thornton Rickert Fox (January 12, 1912 – October 24, 1988), generally known as William T. R. Fox (or occasionally W. T. R. Fox ),

672-465: The Saltzman name were also added at that time. Saltzman said, "No bugles blow for peace – and peace is not simply the absence of war. There is no mechanism in our government to wage peace, to look beyond immediate crises and plan for a peaceful future. This Institute can help move us in that direction." The Institute of War and Peace Studies has never had a teaching program of its own; rather, instruction

714-668: The School of International Affairs (later the School of International and Public Affairs). Active programs at the institute during the 2010s and beyond have included the annual Saltzman Forum, the annual Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, the International Security Policy Concentration of the School of International and Public Affairs, the Saltzman Working Paper Series,

756-612: The book A Continent Apart: The United States and Canada in World Politics . He served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State for a number of years, as well as to other governmental agencies, and lectured at the National War College and various service branch colleges. Long interested in issues surrounding NATO , Fox and his wife Annette Baker Fox published NATO and the Range of American Choice in 1967, which analyzed

798-475: The causes, conduct and consequences of war." Eisenhower at first envisioned an endowed chair , or as he phrased it a "Chair for Peace", but the idea was then expanded into a full institute. In a March 1950 speech, Eisenhower said the purpose of the institute would be to "study war as a tragic social phenomenon – its origins, its conduct, its impact and particularly its disastrous consequences upon man's spiritual, intellectual, and material progress." Eisenhower

840-622: The development of the field and gave those starting in the field as sense of intellectual community. Fox was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Fox and his wife were residents of the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut for four decades and he was active in the First Congregational Church of Old Greenwich. He died at Greenwich Hospital of heart disease on October 24, 1988, having suffered

882-580: The directors, prominent scholars associated with the institute have included Samuel P. Huntington (who was associate director of the institute from 1959 to 1962), Glenn Snyder , Roger Hilsman , Annette Baker Fox , Kenneth Waltz , Robert Jervis , Severine Autesserre , Kim Martern , and Stephen Biddle . The institute also helped foster the careers of several members who went on to high positions in government, including Michael Armacost , Joan E. Spero , Lynn E. Davis , Jean-Marie Guehenno , and Catherine McArdle Kelleher . In terms of physical location of

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924-409: The future nuclear stand-off between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would become focused on the fear of mutual destruction, but in his portion explored ways that international agreements to limit or control nuclear weapons might improve matters. Fox came away from his activities during this period convinced that the framing of international relations theory should be around the proposition that, "If man is to have

966-687: The graduate faculty, said after ten years had gone by that the institute had "done a great deal of fine work". One emphasis of the institute was in research, and by 1986 nearly 70 books had been published in connection with the institute. Fox often spent time abroad as a scholar, including in England in 1955, as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Rio Branco Institute and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in 1966, in Mexico in 1967, and as

1008-569: The institute for 25 years. He was succeeded by Professor Warner R. Schilling , who held the position from 1976 to 1986. Schilling, who had previously served as associate director of the institute, was instrumental in protecting the institute's funding sources and physical space from encroachment by other parts of the university. Professor Howard Wriggins was acting director during 1986–1987. Professor David A. Baldwin then served as director from 1987 to 1994, followed by Professor Jack Snyder from 1994 to 1997. The next director, who held

1050-469: The institute, it started in brownstones on 117th Street, then during the 1960s moved twice on a temporary basis before settling into the new International Affairs Building on 118th Street in 1970. In 2003, the institute was renamed in honor of Arnold A. Saltzman , an industrialist and diplomat who graduated from Columbia College in 1936. Administratively, the institute remained within the School of International and Public Affairs. Two endowed chairs under

1092-424: The leadership of Fox, the institute became a viable operation; John A. Krout , dean of the graduate faculty and one of Eisenhower's allies in university administration, said after ten years had gone by that the institute had "done a great deal of fine work". One emphasis of the institute was in research, and by 1986 nearly 70 books had been published in connection with the institute. Fox would be director of

1134-666: The opportunity to exercise some measure of rational control over his destiny, the limits of the possible and the consequences of the desirable both have to be investigated." Fox joined the Columbia faculty as a full professor in 1950. Later, he became the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations from 1968–1972, the Bryce Professor of the History of International Relations from 1972–1980, and Bryce Professor Emeritus after that. Upon

1176-420: The position for over two decades, was Professor Richard K. Betts , beginning in 1997. In 2020 Professor Keren Yarhi-Milo was named the first woman to lead the institute. After Yarhi-Milo's promotion to Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs , Professor Peter Clement served as interim director from 2022 to 2023, after which Professor Page Fortna was named as director in 2023. Besides

1218-620: The powers did not collaborate, but also made an effort to explore feasible opportunities that leaders might have to forestall that future. Fox was part of the international staff at the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization , the San Francisco meeting that led to the creation of the United Nations Charter . He was one of the contributors to Bernard Brodie 's landmark 1946 volume The Absolute Weapon: Atomic Power and World Order , where he recognized with Brodie that

1260-609: The range of reactions to the evolution of NATO and the American role within it. Fox also worked on behalf of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency , addressing issues related to the security of Western Europe. In a 1967 address to one of the World Affairs Councils of America , Fox said that NATO "seems superfluous because it is working ... it is in part a victim of its own success." During his career, Fox described himself as

1302-432: The request of President of Columbia Dwight D. Eisenhower , in 1951 Fox became the first director of the university's Institute of War and Peace Studies , a position he would hold for 25 years. Fox said that the new institute would focus on security studies and that its aim was "to find a road to security with the most peace and the least war." Early areas of focus for the institute were civil–military relations and

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1386-471: The systematic study of statecraft and war, as a major academic discipline. National security policy and an examination of civil-military relations were also focuses of his interests and career. He was the founding director of Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies and held the position from 1951–1976. Fox was born and grew up in Chicago . He attended Haverford College , graduating Phi Beta Kappa with

1428-443: The values considered even more precious than the values it places in jeopardy." Early areas of focus for the institute were civil–military relations and the Cold War and nuclear strategy ; these areas, and especially the first, were of particular interest to Fox. The subject areas did broaden over time. The burgeoning field of " peace research " was not one of them, however, nor was the institute dedicated to pacifism. Under

1470-664: Was a founding editor of the journal International Organization . Fox was president of the International Studies Association (ISA) in 1972–73. In addition, he was a former vice president of the American Political Science Association . He also chaired a committee for research on national security policy in the Social Science Research Council from 1953 to 1964. The conferences it sponsored under Fox's guidance aided

1512-489: Was also instrumental in raising money for the new entity, making use of his fundraising prowess among his network of wealthy friends and acquaintances, in particular Edward J. Bermingham and Clarence Dillon . Eisenhower, who was taken with the idea enough to mention it in a 1950 letter to Winston Churchill , regarded the creation of the institute as his "unique contribution" to the university during this time as president, and when he stepped down from his position and gave

1554-540: Was an American foreign policy professor and international relations theoretician at the Columbia University (1950–1980, emeritus 1980–1988). He is perhaps mostly known as the coiner of the term " superpower " in 1944. He wrote several books about the foreign policy of the United States of America and the United Kingdom (and the British Empire ). He was a pioneer in establishing international relations, and

1596-543: Was associate director of the Yale Institute of International Studies from 1943 to 1950. The director there, Frederick S. Dunn – who held that international relations was "politics in the absence of central authority" – was another important influence on Fox. Fox coined the word "superpower" in his 1944 book The Super-Powers: The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union – Their Responsibility for Peace to identify

1638-489: Was called "Systematic World Politics"; as it evolved, its reading list gave more space to issues such as imperialism , International inequality , and limited global resources , but always focused at the end upon the range of choices for future world orders. Towards the end of his career at Columbia, he developed an explicit focus on moral concerns and human rights, giving courses such as "Means and Ends in International Relations" and "Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy". He

1680-432: Was enormous. Scores of students who participated in his seminars now fill high academic or policy-making positions." Many of the "Great Debates" in international relations theory happened during this era. But Fox's non-dogmatic approach meant there was a wide range of intellectual diversity and scholarly approach among his students and mentees. In other settings, the scholar Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon wrote that Fox "was

1722-525: Was the biggest influence on Fox there. He married Annette Baker in 1935, who also became a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an international relations scholar. They had two children together and sometimes collaborated on academic work as well. Fox initially taught as an instructor at Temple University from 1936–1941 and Princeton University from 1941–1943. He joined Yale University in 1943 and became an associate professor there in 1946. He

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1764-484: Was the first managing editor of the journal World Politics , a position he held from 1948 to 1953. Under his guidance it became the preeminent journal in its field, and his system of commissioning review articles for it endured past his time there. He remained a member of its editorial board through 1978. He was also an advisory board member of the Journal of International Affairs from 1952 until 1988. In addition, he

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