Keren Yarhi-Milo

Keren Yarhi-Milo is an Israeli-American political scientist. She is the director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.^[1]

Biography[]

Yarhi-Milo grew up in Israel, where she completed mandatory military service, and graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in political science in 2003.^[2] One of her mentors was Robert Jervis. Her research specializes in interstate communication, crisis bargaining, and the psychology of leaders and decision makers, which was inspired by her experience doing intelligence work during her service in the Israeli military.^[3]

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her post-doc at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her dissertation won the Kenneth Waltz Award for the best dissertation in the field of International Security and Arms Control in 2010. She subsequently taught at Princeton University for 10 years before joining the Columbia faculty in 2020.^[4][5]

Her book Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict (2019) earned the Best Book Award on Foreign Policy from the American Political Science Association and won the Biennial Best Foreign Policy Book Award from the International Studies Association.^[6][7] Her 2016 book, Knowing The Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence Organizations, and Assessments of Intentions in International Relations, received the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award and was a co-winner of the 2016 DPLST Book Prize, Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association.^[8][9]

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