On June 3, 2025, the Gulf Research Center (GRC) and the Afghanistan Policy Lab at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs co-hosted a closed-door webinar titled “Rethinking Afghanistan-Gulf Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape.” The session brought together experts and policymakers to examine…
Benjamin H. Bradlow is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, jointly appointed in the School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology.
This presentation compares public safety net and elite private psychiatric treatment in Los Angeles to show how inequality shapes the very meaning of recovery from serious mental illness. It focuses on "social prognosis", or the way clinicians imagine and enact futures for their clients. In Downtown LA, the crises of…
What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers aren’t what he expected.
Celebrated author Michael Lewis ‘82 will talk about his new edited volume Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service, a timely meditation on the purpose of government and the dedicated and creative people behind the term "bureaucracy.’ Contributing authors Dave Eggers and Casey Cep will join in the conversation,…
