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Kenneth Roth
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March 09, 2023
Former Human Rights Watch Leader Roth to Join SPIA Faculty for 2023-24 Academic Year
A former longtime head of Human Rights Watch will join the faculty of the School of Public and International Affairs this fall. Kenneth Roth, who led the international NGO from 1993 until last year, will serve as SPIA’s Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer for the 2023-2024 academic year. “Ken…
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March 08, 2023
Profiles in Perseverance: Living With Hope
To commemorate International Women’s Day, the Afghanistan Policy Lab profiled eight Afghan women, highlighting the struggle and the fight of women in the country. These profiles share the struggle of Afghan women to survive, to live and not give up their fight, and to hope. These courageous women write poignantly of the lives…
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Ashoka Mody
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March 07, 2023
SPIA Economic Historian on Why ‘India Is Broken’
Ashoka Mody is an economic historian at Princeton, but writes that his “heart is in India.” It’s from this perspective that Mody, the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the School of Public and International Affairs, channels his finance- and policy-driven analysis of the world’s…
Ashoka Mody
Members of the Afghanistan Policy Lab include, back row from left, Lutf Ali Sultani, Storai Tapesh, Muhammad Idrees Ghairat, and Gran Hewad; and front row from left, Ambassador Adela Raz and Naheed Farid. Photo: Frank Wojciechowski
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March 04, 2023
Evacuated Experts Keep the Conversation About Afghanistan Alive
Researchers at Princeton’s Afghanistan Policy Lab Are Researching Four Key Areas of Policy The journey from Afghanistan to Princeton was not easy for Lutf Ali Sultani. Sultani worked as a journalist for a newspaper during the two-decade period when the U.S.-backed Afghan government supported freedom of the press. After the U…
Members of the Afghanistan Policy Lab include, back row from left, Lutf Ali Sultani, Storai Tapesh, Muhammad Idrees Ghairat, and Gran Hewad; and front row from left, Ambassador Adela Raz and Naheed Farid. Photo: Frank Wojciechowski
Ali Alleile MPP ’23
Community Profile, Policy Profile
March 03, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Ali Alleile MPP ’23
I grew up in the Deir Ezzor province in Northeastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. We didn’t expect the Syrian civil war in 2011. I remember the moment when my brother asked me to turn the TV on, and we saw the breaking news. As an Arabic family, we don't believe in weapons or military factions, so when the revolution began in…
Ali Alleile MPP ’23
Alan Blinder
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March 02, 2023
Princeton Economist Alan Blinder to Receive 2023 Moynihan Prize for Scholarship and Public Service
Alan Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will receive the 2023 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), the group announced today. The Moynihan Prize, named for the former U.S. senator from New York…
Alan Blinder
Michael Froman
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March 01, 2023
Council on Foreign Relations Announces Michael Froman Will Serve as New President
Today, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) announced that Michael Froman—a widely respected leader across government, business, and the nonprofit sector—will become the organization’s fifteenth president. Froman will succeed Richard Haass, CFR’s president since 2003, who has announced that he will be stepping down in June…
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February 21, 2023
Princeton University Seniors Austin Davis and Ella Gantman Receive Pyne Prize
Princeton University seniors Austin Davis and Ella Gantman are the recipients of the 2023 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. They will be recognized at Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 25. The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has…
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Joshua Coan '24
Community Profile, Policy Profile
February 17, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Joshua Coan ’24
I took a gap year after high school and had the chance to play semi-pro volleyball in the Netherlands for a few months. Volleyball is a big part of my life and my identity. Getting to play at the collegiate level on the @PrincetonVolley team is such an amazing honor. It allows me to stay active and stay healthy, but also, it…
Joshua Coan '24
Kelley T. Jones Ph.D. Candidate
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February 13, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Kelley T. Jones Ph.D. Candidate
"I’m active-duty military, and I’ve been in the @USNavy for more than 20 years. By trade, I’m known as a ship driver, which is a Surface Warfare Officer. Most recently, while at sea, I finished the opportunity to command the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) out of Rota, Spain. Our mission was ballistic missile defense in support of…
Kelley T. Jones Ph.D. Candidate