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2024 COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan
News December 05, 2024
Princeton SPIA Students See Climate Policy Take Shape at COP29
Seven students from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month. The students met with delegations from around the world and saw firsthand how international policy is established.Navroz Dubash, a professor of public and international affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, also attended the conference and spoke on a panel hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It released the annual ‘Emissions Gap Report’ and focused on…
SPIA Policy Workshop, Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar - Devanne Béda-Geuder and students
News December 04, 2024
Princeton SPIA Policy Workshop Tackles Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar
Context is key. That’s one of Devanne Béda-Geuder’s guiding principles in “Strengthening Urban Climate Adaptation and Finance in Dakar, Senegal,” a policy workshop she’s leading this semester at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA).“It’s really important to think about climate change, climate policy, and climate finance from the perspective of a developing country,” said Béda-Geuder, an urban and development scholar and practitioner with 20 years of experience working at the intersection of development, governance, and urban studies in African cities.A lecturer and associate research scholar at Princeton SPIA, Béda…
A board used for the CISS simulation
News December 02, 2024
Princeton Students Conduct “What If” Simulation of Pivotal WWII Crisis
How would things be different if you got a do-over? The “what-if” game is always an interesting thought exercise — and for the first time, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Center for International Security Studies (CISS) used this question as the jumping off point for its semi-annual crisis simulation. On November 9, the simulations team at CISS hosted its first event of the 2024-25 academic year. Launched in 2010, the simulations are a full-day exploration of “what if,” in which students from across Princeton — regardless of program or year — along with external participants, respond to a theoretical geopolitical crisis…
ResearchRecord
News November 25, 2024
Research Record: Current Engagement with Unreliable Sites from Web Search Driven by Navigational Search
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
Varun Gauri
News November 21, 2024
Varun Gauri on Going from Economist to Novelist
On a recent Tuesday evening, Varun Gauri stepped behind a lectern at the Princeton Public Library not to deliver a talk about political or behavioral economics—topics he teaches at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs—but about Meena and Avi, the two characters in his debut novel who embrace Indian tradition by having an arranged marriage in small-town Ohio.For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus is an exciting new addition to the growing tide of literature by first- and second-generation Americans exploring what it means to hold multiple…
Participating Scholars during Seoul City Tour at Gyeongbokgung Palace
News November 20, 2024
Faculty Brief South Korean Policymakers, Business Leaders, Scholars on Niehaus Trip
Several researchers from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs traveled to South Korea in October to brief the country’s policymakers, business leaders, and scholars on critical political and economic issues in the context of U.S.-South Korea relations and the 2024 U.S. presidential election.The eight-day trip was sponsored by the School’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and hosted by Niehaus Director Helen V. Milner, the B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Hye Young You, an associate professor of politics and public affairs.The participants visited Seoul and Jeju…
Jesse Jenkins. Photo by Frank Wojciechowski.
News November 19, 2024
Jesse Jenkins Named as Top 100 Climate Leader, Receiving a Second Time Accolade
Energy systems expert Jesse Jenkins was named to the TIME100 Climate list on November 12, following his nomination to the TIME100 NEXT list in October.In both instances, Jenkins, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, was lauded for his influential role in evaluating and shaping the clean energy transition in the United States.Jenkins leads the ZERO Lab at Princeton, which works to guide energy transitions through the evaluation of emerging low-carbon technologies and development of optimization-based models to improve climate policy decision-making.Jenkins and his lab…
Patrick Sharkey
News November 18, 2024
Princeton SPIA Professor Awarded Grant to Combat Gun Violence through New Research Network
Patrick Sharkey of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) has been awarded a $409,000 grant from Public Welfare Foundation that will fund the creation of a research and practice network aimed at bringing together leading researchers and practitioners to break new ground in reducing gun violence in the United States.“It’s a unique project because we’re approaching it without a specific outcome in mind,” said Sharkey, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. “Rather than have a precise research question we’re trying to answer, we’re trying to bring people together to build an agenda that is more…
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News November 15, 2024
Research Record: Bureaucrat Incentives Reduce Crop Burning and Child Mortality in South Asia
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
Robertson Hall
News November 12, 2024
Bipartisan Group to Discuss Criminal Justice Reform at Princeton SPIA
Representatives of organizations from across the political spectrum will participate in a first-of-its-kind panel discussion at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs later this month on bipartisan criminal justice reform.“Bipartisan Movement for Criminal Justice Reform: Past, Present, Future” will take place on Tuesday, November 19, at 5 p.m. in Robertson Hall’s Arthur Lewis Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public; registration is encouraged.The ideologically diverse panel includes:
Nicholas Lotito's Economic Diversification in Saudi Arabia class in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
News November 11, 2024
On the Road Again — Fall Break Trips Result in Real-World Learning
As midterm exams concluded and fall break officially began, Tigers across campus looked forward to the time away to rest, relax, and recharge. However, for a select group of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs MPA students participating in policy workshops, fall break allowed them to travel domestically and internationally to continue their research initiatives.Students went as far as Tokyo and as close as Puerto Rico to conduct field research and meet with the various clients and partner agencies they’re working with.“For MPA students, the policy workshop experience is the pinnacle of their required curriculum,” said Karen McGuinness…
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News November 11, 2024
SPIAccolades — November 2024
A Princeton School of Public and International Affairs faculty member was awarded the Council on Foreign Relations’ top book prize, while a SPIA political historian contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book on reducing racial injustice, economic inequality, and poverty. Gary J. Bass, the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War and a professor of politics and international affairs, received CFR’s 2024 Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal for “Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia” (Alfred A. Knopf), his massive, definitive history of the Nuremberg trials’ lesser-known Asian…
News November 08, 2024
Princeton SPIA’s Frances Lee Named to American Academy of Sciences and Letters
Frances E. Lee, a faculty member in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and one the country’s leading congressional scholars, was invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters last month.Lee, a professor of politics and public affairs and co-director of Princeton SPIA’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, was one of eight new Academy members to be recognized in a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on October 23.The American Academy of Sciences and Letters promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. An independent, non…
Amelia Frank Vitale
News November 07, 2024
Fill in the Blanks with Amelia Frank-Vitale
Amelia Frank-Vitale may be a new face at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, but she’s feeling at home in her office at Aaron Burr Hall. Frank-Vitale, who has a joint appointment as assistant professor with the School and the Department of Anthropology, was a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer in Princeton’s Program in Latin American Studies, just a few floors above where she sits now, from 2021 to 2023.Frank-Vitale returned to Princeton University from Barnard College this fall, and she says she could not have dreamt up a more ideal role for herself. Here’s more about that, in her own words:My research explores… the…
SPIA in NJ-NJ and the American Economy
News November 07, 2024
New SPIA in NJ Series Launches to Explore the Past, Present, and Future of New Jersey’s Economic Policy
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ SPIA in NJ initiative was launched last year on the idea that scholarship doesn’t happen in a vacuum. More specifically, the initiative assumes that the School’s students and faculty and New Jersey’s public policymakers have much to teach each other about the theory and practice of government, and it would benefit everyone to bring them together.Now, going into its second year, SPIA in NJ will present “New Jersey and the American Economy: What’s Needed for the Garden State to Lead a Thriving Country,” a month-long series of three panel discussions organized and moderated…