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...

This past year was the election year. Globally, 64 countries and the European Union — representing a combined population of about 49% of the people in the world — held national elections in 2024.In India, nearly 650 million citizens went to the polls. As was widely expected, Prime Minister Narendra...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

Welcome to the first Princeton Int'l crossword puzzle challenge! Please be sure to submit your completed grid to international.princeton.edu before April 15 to be registered in a contest to win a wifi-free translator device. Good luck!A PDF can be found here.

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...

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...

As America has reflected in recent years on the strength of our democracy in an era of hyperpartisanship, a former deputy chief of staff to Donald Trump and a former chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi have both visited Princeton’s campus at the invitation of the University’s Center for the Study of...

William Chester Jordan, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, emeritus, and the director of the Program in Medieval Studies, has received the 2024 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. He is among 10 recipients of the prize,...

Princeton faculty member Lex Brown, lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts, and historian Lucas Ramos have been awarded the 2024-25 Rome Prize(Link is external) for independent research in the arts and humanities. Both are Princeton alumni. Recipients are invited to pursue their...

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.”The...

During the Fall Break, the International Policy Associates (IPAs)—LISDs selective group of undergraduate pre-professional foreign policy fellows—traveled to Warsaw, Gdańsk, and Kraków to investigate recent and contemporary Polish politics. In meetings with top politicians and key stakeholders across...

The American Physical Society has recognized two scholars at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) for their contributions to the field of physics. Alex Glaser, an associate professor at Princeton SPIA and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and...

It was a stroke of luck that Aimee Bronfeld decided to be very early to her first day on the job five years ago.As project specialist for the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA), she produces one of the University’s most...

Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah captivated Princeton audiences in an Oct. 30 visit with reflections on literature, compassion and the “oceanic cosmopolitanism” that connects artists and thinkers across continents.  Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and is...

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