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Attendees at Third Annual Sovereign Finance Lab conference

The Third Annual Politics of Sovereign Finance Conference

How are governments of Global South countries likely to navigate the current financial environment -- facing fuel and food price shocks, cuts in foreign aid and ongoing development needs? What does the case of Senegal tell us about the domestic politics of crisis and adjustment, as well as about the politics of debt…

Attendees at Third Annual Sovereign Finance Lab conference

Nowruz Event

Celebrating Nowruz and Building Stronger Community

On April 15, the Afghanistan Policy Lab (APL) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs hosted its annual Nowruz celebration for the School’s faculty, staff, and students. Dean Jamal and Amb. Raz with APL student…

Nowruz Event

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More than 300 Current and Future Public Servants Gathered at SPIA to Connect and Learn Together in Changing Times

From people who graduated from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs more than four decades ago to those who will begin their studies here in the fall, the breadth of the Princeton SPIA community was on full display this month as the School hosted three coinciding events.Admitted Student Weekend, the annual…

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Zia Mian

News, Research Briefs

Renewed Interest in People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons

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.”

Zia Mian

Cassandra Azumah, MPA ’27

Community Profile, Policy Profile, News

#PolicyProfile: Cassandra Azumah, MPA ’27

“Being from Ghana, my path to public policy has been shaped by working across countries, sectors, and institutions — and seeing firsthand what it takes to turn good ideas into lasting change. After graduating from the London School of Economics, I spent a year and a half at the South Centre in Geneva, exploring how countries in…

Cassandra Azumah, MPA ’27

Eric Tate

Eric Tate Awarded €2.5 Million ERC Synergy Grant for Research on Flooding and Social Vulnerability

As climate change increases rainfall intensity and urbanization patterns divert more water into rivers, damage to local communities has intensified. The result has left a group of researchers to question whether and when people will reach a point at which their repeated efforts to invest in flood adaptation are no longer worth…

Eric Tate

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New Documentary Calls for ‘Creative Resolve’ to Solve Public Health Problems

Some of public health’s most daunting problems were solved only through sustained, collaborative global efforts. From collaborative efforts between the United States and the Soviet Union to eradicate smallpox at the height of the Cold War to international pressure to produce less expensive, generic antiretroviral medicines to…

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Jake Shapiro

News, Research Briefs

Determining Why Benefits for Women Go Unused

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.”

Jake Shapiro

SPIAction Newsletter

SPIAction Newsletter — April 2026

What It Means to Graduate Debt-FreeFully funded graduate degrees at Princeton SPIA mean you can focus on impactful public service careers, not debt.

SPIAction Newsletter

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New Data from Princeton SPIA Initiative Shows Political Violence in U.S. is on the Rise

Since 2019, the Bridging Divides Initiative at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs has tracked political violence in the United States and identified key risk factors for escalation. According to the latest edition of BDI’s yearly trend analysis report, 2025 saw a serious escalation in the risk environment,…

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