The inaugural event of the Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab on April 17-18 at SPIA in DC welcomed researchers and government officials for in-depth, real-time discussions of potential changes to legislation, debt sustainability analyses, and debt restructuring procedures.

Director Helen Milner is delighted to announce that the new cohort of Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) Fellows, chosen from a large pool of applicants from all over the globe, will be in residence from July 2025 through June 2026 to pursue their own research projects and contribute to the intellectual life of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

On April 3, 2025, the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance marked its 20th anniversary with a day of events at Princeton University. The celebration brought together current fellows, former fellows, faculty affiliates, and university leadership to reflect on two decades of scholarship and the Center’s contributions to the study of…

Sovereign borrowing is central to what governments do – but increasingly costly, even for wealthy democracies.

Several researchers from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs traveled to South Korea in October to brief the country’s policymakers, business leaders, and scholars on critical political and economic issues in the context of U.S.-South Korea relations and the 2024 U.S. presidential election.