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December 22, 2015
Bernstein Gallery Offers High School Students an Intimate Look at the Cuban Revolution
“The Cuban Revolution” – an exhibit currently on display at the Woodrow Wilson School’s Bernstein Gallery – features 80 rare, black and white photographs documenting a critical period in Cuba’s cultural and political history. Taken between 1947 and the late 1960s, the photos are part of a private collection that belong to David…
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December 07, 2015
WooCast: Sailing the Water's Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy
When engaging with other countries, the U.S. government has a number of different policy instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade and the use of military force. But what determines which policies are chosen?A new book released by a Princeton-Harvard team focuses on how domestic U.S. politics – in…
The Blood Telegram Book
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November 17, 2015
Bass Wins Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Nonfiction Book
Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, won the Ramnath Goenka Award for best nonfiction book for “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.”The award, given by The Indian Express, is presented to a book…
The Blood Telegram Book
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October 19, 2015
Wilson School Affiliate Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
A Wilson School affiliate has been inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' 235th Class of Members: Martin Gilens, a professor of politics, and faculty associate at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Gilens joins two other Princeton faculty: Sanjeev Arora, the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in…
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September 29, 2015
WooCast: Behind the Scenes of the Princeton-Fung Global Forum
Resolving epidemics like the Ebola crisis requires a multidisciplinary approach –involving not only public health and medical knowledge but an understanding of its economic, environmental, political and historical roots and consequences.This is why Princeton University is gathering together some of the world's leading academic,…
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September 24, 2015
Q&A: The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
Is China a rival super power to the U.S.? Is its rise a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond?In his new book, Thomas J. Christensen, the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War and director of Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International…
September 23, 2015
Nuclear Legacies: A Global Look at the 70th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing
A conference on Oct. 1-2 will bring together scholars to reflect on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, which – together with a bombing on Nagasaki – killed 129,000 people in August 1945.The United States dropped atomic bombs on these Japanese cities at the end of World War II, effectively bringing the war to an end…
September 18, 2015
Q&A: America at the Ballot Box - Elections and Political History
Elections are the lifeblood of American democracy, offering insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics. A new book co-edited by Wilson School Professor Julian Zelizer uses the history of presidential elections to highlight American political democracy and its development over the centuries."America…
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August 28, 2015
Political Challenges, Not Just Scientific Ones, Shape Response to Epidemics
The fight against epidemics like Ebola is waged by health care workers on the ground and by researchers in the lab. But it is also fought by public officials and politicians, from community elders to national leaders to the heads of international organizations.Understanding the role of government and politics before, during and…
June 24, 2015
Q&A: Macedo Looks Ahead to the Future of Marriage
The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the right of same-sex couples to marry, even as people on both ends of the political spectrum have cast doubt on the future of marriage as an institution.Some on the right worry same-sex marriage is a slippery slope toward polygamy and the dissolution of marriage as we know it. On…