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November 29, 2016
Students Participate in a Crisis Simulation: Instability in South Asia
On Nov. 19, 2016, Princeton University's Center for International Security Studies (CISS) hosted more than 100 students at its annual fall crisis simulation. In addition to nearly 60 total undergraduate and graduate Princeton students, participants came from West Point, the Naval Academy, the New Jersey Institute of Technology…
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October 26, 2016
Integration Between Pre-K and K-3 Programs Needs to be Strengthened, Princeton-Brookings Journal Finds
High-quality pre-K programs can indeed play an important role in improving later outcomes for children, particularly for children from more disadvantaged families, according to evidence presented in the latest issue of Future of Children, a joint-publication of Princeton University and the Brookings Institution.However, there…
October 11, 2016
The Next Four Years: Foreign Relations
The challenges facing the next president will span the globe, from Russia to the Middle East to China and beyond.In the fifth installment of a Q&A series on important issues the next president will need to address, Princeton University researchers Aaron Friedberg and G. John Ikenberry examine foreign policy challenges…
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October 10, 2016
American Workers Prefer Set Work Schedules, But Would Take Wage Cuts to Work from Home
Affordable child care and flexible work schedules have all been topics of debates in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.Yet, according to a new study by Princeton University and Harvard University, the average American worker is indifferent to flexible work schedules and instead prefers a set 40-hour workweek.It comes down to…
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October 06, 2016
Dean Rouse Featured in “America’s Course on Poverty”
A new online course focused on poverty and inequality in the United States will launch Oct. 11 and run until Dec. 15, 2016. Developed by Stanford University, the course is free and open to the public and features Cecilia Elena Rouse, dean of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and…
October 04, 2016
The Next Four Years: The Middle East
The next president will have his or her hands full regarding issues in the Middle East: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) remains a threat; the integrity of the Iran nuclear accord must be ensured; and decisions loom about the United States’ role in Syria.In the fourth installment of a Q&A series on challenges that…
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August 11, 2016
Neilson Ushers Peruvian Education Policy Laboratory
Professor Christopher Neilson is passionate about ensuring that government policy — in particular education policy — is founded on theory and measurement. He aspires to upend the typical formula where policymakers develop, implement and program, and then outside academics evaluate progress. Rather, he wants to make sure…
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June 15, 2016
Wilson School Hosts Summer Policy Academy for Students from Pueblo and Navajo Nations
Eighteen high school students from 16 Pueblo Nations in New Mexico and two students from the Navajo Nation in Arizona are visiting the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs this week as part of the Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute’s Summer Policy Academy (SPA). The academy brings together…
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June 01, 2016
“Sailing the Water’s Edge” Receives 2016 Gladys M. Kammerer Award
A book written by Professors Helen Milner of Princeton University and Dustin Tingley of Harvard University received the 2016 Gladys M. Kammerer Award. Presented by the American Political Science Association (APSA), this award annually recognizes the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy during the previous…
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March 01, 2016
Policy Workshop Recommendations Support Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations
Participants in last fall’s graduate Policy Workshop, “Building Ties with Former Enemies,” met with officials from the U.S. State Department and the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 18, 2015, to present recommendations designed to advance the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations.The class divided their…
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