Keren Yarhi-Milo is the Dean of the

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(SIPA) and the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies at

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. She is a former director of Columbia's Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.

Biography

Keren Yarhi-Milo is a world-renowned and award-winning expert in international security and crisis decision-making and the youngest dean in SIPA's history. She graduated from

with a B.A. in political science in 2003, and then worked with several NGOs promoting peace in the Middle East, including the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Yarhi-Milo earned her Ph.D. from the

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and completed her post-doc at

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. She was a student of

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, who became a deep personal mentor to her. Her dissertation won the

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Award for the best dissertation in the field of International Security and Arms Control in 2010. She subsequently earned her tenure at

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, where she taught at the Princeton School of International and Public Affairs for 10 years before joining a similarly named school (

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) at

in 2019. 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. Her book ''Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict'' (2019) earned the Best Book Award on Foreign Policy from the

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and won the Biennial Best Foreign Policy Book Award from the

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. In 2022, Yarhi-Milo won the Emerging Scholar Award from the

, an award that recognizes “scholars who have made through their body of publications the most significant contribution to the field of security studies.” She is best known for her scholarship about credibility and reputation, as well as her study of the psychology of leaders. She is known for coining the "selective attention thesis".

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