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The U.S.-China Summit in May created an opening for renewed dialogue around a host of issues that matter to both nations. Princeton School of Public and International Affairs students traveled to Beijing shortly after the meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. They found policymakers, academics, and students more willing to discuss political and policy differences, including trade and the question of Taiwan, on the heels of the summit.Rory Truex, an associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton SPIA, studies Chinese politics and theories of authoritarian rule. In this interview, he…

Naima Green-Riley's second assignment with the U.S. Foreign Service wasn't a coincidence.While serving as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Alexandria, Egypt, Green-Riley focused her attention on both the Arab Spring and an uptick in global outreach by China that immediately preceded its Belt and Road Initiative — a massive infrastructure project signaling a potentially fundamental shift in global power dynamics."I was noticing a lot of Chinese activity in the Middle East and Africa in ways that were intriguing and made me want to understand China more," Green-Riley said. The State Department granted her request to be placed in…

Jacob Kaplan, a criminal justice professional specialist, has been awarded a $260,00 grant from Arnold Ventures to build dedicated data infrastructure for FBI crime data. The project will focus on systematically improving the quality and usability of the dataset so that common, solvable issues are addressed once rather than requiring individual researchers to solve them repeatedly.By creating standardized infrastructure for one of the nation’s most widely used crime datasets, the project aims to strengthen the reliability of evidence used to inform research and public policy.“FBI crime data is one of the most widely used public…

After a lifetime of studying and participating in the politics and diplomacy of the Middle East, Daniel C. Kurtzer has measured U.S. diplomacy in the region against one event — one he helped shape more than 30 years ago.Back in 1991, Kurtzer was serving as a member of the Middle East peace team of Secretary of State James A. Baker III. Although the U.S. had been trying to convene an international Middle East peace conference since the previous administration, it took a public directive to end the Arab-Israeli conflict by President George H. W. Bush to set the stage for a breakthrough.Kurtzer, who has been the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East…