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Andrew Moravcsik and Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
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March 25, 2025
Moravcsik and Danspeckgruber Reflect on the 61st Munich Security Conference
The 2025 Munich Security Conference (MSC), held last month, included representatives from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs among its observers and participants.Andrew Moravcsik, a professor of politics and international affairs and director of Princeton SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self…
Andrew Moravcsik and Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
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March 21, 2025
Princeton SPIA Faculty Weigh In on Russia-Ukraine Partial Ceasefire
PRINCETON, NJ - Following the announcement of a partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, experts from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) offer their insights on what this means and what comes next. With backgrounds in international affairs, political conflict, and economic history,…
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Christopher F. Chyba
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March 19, 2025
Research Record: Experimental Demonstration of Electric Power Generation From Earth’s Rotation Through Its Own Magnetic Field
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.”
Christopher F. Chyba
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February 24, 2025
Zack Cooper authors “Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries”
Zack Cooper’s exploration of the ascent and fall of the world’s greatest militaries is chronicled in his debut book “Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries” (Yale University Press).“What initially drew me to the topic was this puzzle about why China would abandon a military strategy that seemed to be working…
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SPIA students visiting UN headquarters in New York City
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February 04, 2025
Annual U.N. Day Offers Princeton SPIA Students a Closer Look at Career Options
As a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program, Melissa O. Tier is considering what she wants to do after earning her doctorate.Through her studies and research, Tier has been closely following the United Nations Framework…
SPIA students visiting UN headquarters in New York City
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January 23, 2025
U.N. Approves SGS-Backed Global Study of Nuclear War
The United Nations will commission an international scientific study on the effects of nuclear war for the first time in more than three decades, thanks in part to advocacy efforts by the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The idea for a comprehensive 21st…
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Wei Peng
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January 21, 2025
Research Record: Seizing the Policy Opportunities for Health- and Equity-Improving Energy Decisions
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.”
Wei Peng
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December 12, 2024
EV Transition Could Create Air Pollution Hotspots in India, China
While electric vehicles have become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, new research led by Princeton University has demonstrated that refining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could create pollution hotspots near manufacturing hubs.Focusing on China and India, the researchers found that…
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2024 COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan
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December 05, 2024
Princeton SPIA Students See Climate Policy Take Shape at COP29
Seven students from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month. The students met with delegations from around the world and saw firsthand how international policy is established.Navroz Dubash, a professor of…
2024 COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan
SPIA Policy Workshop, Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar - Devanne Béda-Geuder and students
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December 04, 2024
Princeton SPIA Policy Workshop Tackles Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar
Context is key. That’s one of Devanne Béda-Geuder’s guiding principles in “Strengthening Urban Climate Adaptation and Finance in Dakar, Senegal,” a policy workshop she’s leading this semester at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA).“It’s really important to think about climate change,…
SPIA Policy Workshop, Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar - Devanne Béda-Geuder and students