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Career Building at the United Nations: An Interactive Session with Students on Exploring Career Opportunities

The event “Career Building at the United Nations,” co-organized by the Afghanistan Policy Lab at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton University’s Center for Career Development, featured a practical and candid conversation with students interested in pursuing careers at the United Nations and…

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SPIA Students Explore Careers in Local Government on New York Trip

Protecting communities from natural disasters, ensuring people have housing, creating pathways to economic success: These are all major policy challenges of international scale. Indeed, many Princeton School of Public and International Affairs students aspire to tackle them at the highest global levels.But these are also local…

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Dean Amaney Jamal, General (Ret.) Mark A. Milley ’80, Nolan McCarty, Deborah Pearlstein, Julian Zelizer, Khalil G. Muhammad, and Anastasia Mann. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Princeton SPIA Faculty Reflect on America’s Past As 250th Anniversary Approaches

On July 4, 1776, delegates from the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to ratify the Declaration of Independence. The moment marked the beginning of the United States of America as a country independent from the British monarchy. Now, 250 years and many additions, amendments, and awakenings later, the U.S. is set…

Dean Amaney Jamal, General (Ret.) Mark A. Milley ’80, Nolan McCarty, Deborah Pearlstein, Julian Zelizer, Khalil G. Muhammad, and Anastasia Mann. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

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February 16, 2026

The Taliban Legal System and the 2026 Criminal Procedural Regulations

When the Taliban resumed power in Afghanistan in August 2021, a central question emerged among Afghans and the international community: How would the Taliban govern the country? What form of governance and legal system would they establish? In the initial days following their takeover, Taliban officials declared that they would…

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February 03, 2026

Moderating Text-to-Image Content

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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January 22, 2026

Even Outside the Classroom, Faculty Educate in Many Ways

Members of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs faculty neither vote on legislative bills nor implement those that are approved and signed into law. They aren’t roaming statehouse corridors or city halls, they don’t disburse grant funding, and their nonprofit work is largely confined to the University.Yet…

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January 05, 2026

Princeton SPIA Faculty React to U.S. Capture of Venezuelan President Maduro

Faculty Provide Analysis on Legality, International Implications, and Venezuela’s Future PRINCETON, NJ – Following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, faculty from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs are sharing expert perspectives to provide context and clarity on the…

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December 18, 2025

Policy Reform in Afghanistan A Student-led Discussion with APL Affiliate - Abdullah Azizi

On November 13, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Afghanistan Policy Lab and the School’s SPIA Diversity & Inclusion Team co-hosted a panel discussion on the topic “Reform and Government Effectiveness in Afghanistan.” Princeton SPIA students Heather Mercer MPP ’26, Valerie Chua MPA ’26, and Mert…

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Robertson Hall, Princeton University. Photo By Nicole Guglielmo

December 16, 2025

Princeton SPIA Meets the Moment in 2025

For the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, 2025 was a year that required meeting an extraordinary moment.Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, the new administration initiated significant changes in the federal workforce. For an institution and an alumni base so deeply rooted in public service,…

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December 02, 2025

India, ‘a Troubled Giant,’ the Subject of New Faculty Book

Home to nearly 1.5 billion people, India is the world’s largest democracy – for now. According to the Journal of Democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “government has engaged in what is, by some accounts, a wholesale dismantling of democratic institutions, norms, and practices.”“At a time when autocrats are increasingly…

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