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News August 22, 2024
SPIAccolades — August 2024
Guadalupe Tuñón, assistant professor of politics and international affairs, won the 2024 David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award for her research “Oppression Beyond Plantations: The Effect of Emancipation on Incarceration in Urban Buenos Aires.” The award is presented by the politics and history section of the American Political Science Association.Tuñón's paper, co-authored with Valentin Figueroa, studies the effect of formerly enslaved people’s emancipation on their probability of being incarcerated in early 19th-century Buenos Aires.“I am delighted that…
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News, Research & Policy Briefs August 21, 2024
Research Record: The Long-Term Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Voting Behavior: The “Moving to Opportunity” Experiment
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.”
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News, Press Releases August 15, 2024
Princeton SPIA Faculty Share Insights on the Third Year of Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan
As Afghanistan marks the third year since the Taliban's return to power, the fellows of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs' Afghanistan Policy Lab and Princeton SPIA faculty members provide their perspectives on the evolving situation in the country. The scholars, specializing in international relations, human rights, counterterrorism, and security, offer their analyses of the challenges and opportunities facing Afghanistan. Their insights below, presented in alphabetical order according to the analysts' last names, shed light on the complex realities of a nation in conflict and the uncertain path ahead. …
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News August 14, 2024
Princeton SPIA Helping to Keep D.C. Policymakers in the Know on Artificial Intelligence
With Princeton University taking a leading role in researching artificial intelligence, the School of Public and International Affairs is playing its part by informing federal policymakers on the latest innovations and shaping new conversations on AI governance.The School and its Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) have launched the Princeton AI Dialogues, a multi-faceted initiative on artificial intelligence that explores the hard policy questions around the development, application, and governance of these extraordinarily powerful technologies. Based at the School’s SPIA in DC Center in Washington, the project is focused on supporting U…
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News, Research & Policy Briefs August 12, 2024
Research Record: The Democracy Effects of Legal Polarization: Movement Lawyering at the Dawn of the Unitary Executive
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.”
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News August 12, 2024
Indigenous Students Hone Their Policymaking Skills at the Annual Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute Summer Academy
Every morning at sunrise, New Mexico State University student Brad Louis pays tribute to his home, the Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico, the oldest continuously inhabited community in North America.In a daily ritual practiced by many of Acoma’s citizens, “we get to give thanks to the sun and Creator for giving us life and opportunities to grow and learn,” says the incoming first-year student.This summer, Louis (far right, rear row in group photo) was one of 16 scholars selected by teachers and community leaders to attend the Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute’s annual Summer Policy Academy, held on the Princeton campus, where visiting high…
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News August 07, 2024
Princeton Junior Summer Institute Prepares Rising College Seniors for Careers in Public Policy
Since 1985, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs has hosted the Junior Summer Institute (JSI) as part of its proud tradition of promoting diversity at Princeton University and in the public service arena. For nearly 40 years, students from diverse backgrounds and perspectives with a wide range of life experiences have come to campus to further their commitment to public service.Stemming from the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA), JSI is open to rising college seniors at U.S. accredited colleges or universities who demonstrate academic aptitude and a passion for policy. JSI serves as a pipeline to the policy…
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News, Research & Policy Briefs August 06, 2024
Research Record: Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from D.C. and the Territories
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.”
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News August 05, 2024
Pa. Officials Underestimate Constituents’ Support for Solar, Other Clean Energy Projects
Local elected officials surveyed in Pennsylvania underestimate their constituents’ support for solar and other clean energy projects, according to research published August 1 in Nature Energy.In their findings, based on survey responses from 894 Pennsylvanians and 206 policymakers from township, municipality, and county governments, the Princeton-led research team uncovered bipartisan support among Pennsylvanians for solar energy and other types of renewables when compared to a reference case of natural gas with carbon capture and storage. But when local elected officials were asked about the types of energy projects they thought their constituents…
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News, Newsletters August 01, 2024
SPIAction Newsletter
With a month to go before the start of the 2024-25 academic year, summer remains in full swing. And what an eventful summer it has been. The U.S. presidential race was turned upside-down, there were consequential national elections in the United Kingdom and France, and the Paris Olympics are thrilling the world, among other notable happenings. (SPIA alumna Lizzie Bird ’17 is competing in the steeplechase for Great Britain.)Things are equally busy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Faculty members continue to publish prolifically, students are traveling the world on Policy Task Force trips, and SPIA alumni have had the chance…
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News August 01, 2024
New Commentary Urges Policy to Combat Rising Food Weaponization
Because of the interconnected food systems of today’s globalized world, the use of food as a weapon of war is more dangerous than ever, and few tools exist for governments to deter the deadly practice, according to a recent commentary in Foreign Affairs, one of the country’s most celebrated and influential foreign policy magazines.The piece calls for the creation of a new global ban on food weaponization to curb the deliberate disruption, destruction, and manipulation of critical food supplies as a method of warfare.Zachary Helder, who just graduated from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs with a Master in Public Affairs, is one…
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News July 24, 2024
Fieldwork in Botswana Shapes Students' Global Policy Perspectives
During a trip to Botswana last spring, a group of juniors from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs studying social protection policies in Southern Africa came face to face with a frustrated local farmer named Mma Mogaetsho. Although she had cultivated her family’s fields for decades, Mogaetsho had recently struggled with local wildlife — primarily elephants — trampling her crops, which threatened not only her livelihood but also her family’s means of subsistence.The night before the meeting, those same havoc-wreaking elephants had wowed the students while refreshing themselves at a nearby watering hole. The experience gave them an…
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News, Research & Policy Briefs July 23, 2024
Research Record: A Sociocultural Approach to Voting: Construing Voting as a Duty to Others Predicts Political Interest and Engagement
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.”
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News July 17, 2024
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: Best-Selling Author Julian Zelizer Features Nation’s Top Political Experts in New Book on Election Integrity
Julian Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, has co-edited his latest book, “Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue.” The book, published by NYU Press, showcases the nation’s top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars as they propose solutions for democracy’s future while recounting the country’s past.“At a time when our election system has shown itself to be so vulnerable — from January 6 through the political violence that culminated with the assassination attempt against former President Trump — a book bringing together the best minds in the country…
LISD International Policy Associates in conversation with Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană at NATO HQ, October 2022. Photo by Serena Vittorini.
News July 17, 2024
LISD Serves as 2024 NATO Summit Public Forum Partner
Watch Nadia Crisan's analyses on NATO's support for Ukraine in an interview with Polish Public Television (TVP) while at the Washington NATO Summit here.LISD is honored to serve as institutional partner for the 2024 NATO Summit Public Forum that takes place in Washington, D.C., on July 10-11. LISD's Executive Director Nadia Crisan and International Policy Associate Maddie Feldman ’27 will be present at the Summit on behalf of the Institute.NATO and the U.S. Government are co-hosting the 2024 NATO Public Forum during the Washington Summit, in collaboration with the Atlantic Council, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), GLOBSEC, German…