Fifty years ago, India alerted the world there was a new player in the atomic arms race with its first nuclear weapons test, code-named Smiling Buddha. That same year, two Princeton University scientists launched something new, now known as the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS). The...

Creative writing professor Aleksandar Hemon’s life was upended by war. In 1992, he was a 27-year-old journalist on an international visitors’ program in the United States when war broke out in his homeland of Bosnia. “It’s the defining event of my life,” Hemon said. With Sarajevo under siege,...

To explore the rise of coffee as a commodity with significant global intersections, students in the “History of Coffee in Africa and the Middle East” course traveled to Ethiopia over fall break to examine the cultural history of coffee in the context of the development of the coffee...

Leonard Wantchekon, James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, traces much of his scholarship to his formative years as a student activist in Benin.In the ’80s, he helped found the Front Démocratique du Bénin, a national organization that...

The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism will launch an innovative reporting seminar based in Athens, Greece, in Summer 2025. “Shockwaves: Climate, Migration, and Culture in Greece,” co-taught by longtime journalist Rachel Donadio (The Atlantic) and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eliza Griswold...

Novelist, poet, and essayist Patrick Chamoiseau, Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian, has been selected to receive the Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award from the Center for Fiction. The award honors “a writer who, through their exceptional...

“The Global Ghetto” a summer 2024 PIIRS Global Seminar, The Global Ghetto, transported 13 Princeton students to Rome and Warsaw for six weeks of immersive instruction, during which they traced the history of Jewish ghettos from their origins in 16th-century Italy through the Nazi era. “The...

To safeguard the Amazon and avoid planetary environmental catastrophe, Western science must engage Indigenous knowledge, combining science–based conservation approaches with the restoration and biocultural diversity practices of Indigenous peoples. So argue the authors of “Indigenizing Conservation...

 Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade, a 2024 graduate, and senior Nolan Musslewhite have been named 2025 Marshall Scholars to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. The Marshall Scholarship allows "intellectually distinguished young Americans, their country’s future leaders" to...

In 1787, with the nascent United States of America in danger of financial ruin and possible dissolution, a group of delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the young country’s governing document, the Articles of Confederation. The resulting Constitutional Convention produced an entirely new system...

World Politics, a preeminent journal of international relations and comparative politics housed at Princeton University, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023. As the quarterly publication looks to its next era, its editorial team is committed to bringing its research to an audience outside...

In February 2020, Noorin was  a second-year computer science student at Kabul University. At the top of her class, she aspired to run Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. But in the four years since the Taliban returned to power, her parents, who diligently...

This issue of Princeton Int’l is devoted to “war and peace.” Armed conflict within and between groups and nations is so constant and so salient to our minds and news feeds that it becomes hard to recognize the peace we aspire to, which does eventually conclude each war — though it may take a long...

Princeton University undergraduates Alanys Rodriguez Cruz ’27 and Riley Yowell ’26 spent last summer exploring a potential legal career through Princeton’s International Internship Program (IIP), which places over 300 students in workplaces across 50 countries each summer. Their internships at the...

Conservationist Paula Kahumbu *02 has fond memories of a rustic one-month research trip on a Kenyan riverbank near a cattle ranch in 1994. She and 10 other graduate students slept in tents and spent their time researching, hauling water for camp, and cooking over an open flame. The scholars were...

When it comes to experience, it’s difficult to imagine someone more suited to the role of overseeing the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) than Trisha Craig. With a career in international academia and policy work, Craig brings to PIIRS experience in fostering...

World Politics, a preeminent journal of international relations and comparative politics housed at Princeton University, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023. As the quarterly publication looks to its next era, its editorial team is committed to bringing its research to an audience outside...