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This research program is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Innovations for Successful Societies chronicles the challenges reform leaders face in serving publics better and helps share solutions across boundaries. A central aim is to identify strategies that can help reform leaders escape the governance traps that often subvert economic and political turnarounds. The program also focuses on innovative ways to solve principal-agent problems that arise in the context of resource scarcity and insecurity. ISS staff and Ph.D. affiliates develop operationally detailed, interview-based case studies and analyses. The also program also hosts an oral history project that highlights the experiences and reflections of reformers worldwide. Director: Jennifer Widner
The Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) provides a nexus for interdisciplinary research and policy analysis aimed at addressing the world’s environmental problems. C-PREE tackles key issues such as global climate change, air and water pollution, the loss of biodiversity, the psychology of decision making, and world hunger. Its faculty consists of experts across a range of disciplines who are both leading scholars and have served as practitioners in government, NGOs, and the private sector. C-PREE’s power to solve problems and to provide a multidisciplinary education on energy and environmental policy also derives from its institutional setting in the Woodrow Wilson School, connecting the policy expertise of the School with academic research of the Princeton Environmental Institute, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and other departments across Princeton University. Through research, teaching, and public outreach, C-PREE provides an opportunity for students, researchers and faculty to become engaged citizens and future leaders in pursuit of a sustainable planet. Director: Michael Oppenheimer
The Center for International Security Studies (CISS) will provide a home for the study and debate of national and international security and will support a variety of educational, research, enrichment, and outreach activities with the intent of generating new knowledge on issues of fundamental importance and educating the next generation of strategic thinkers and decision makers. It will also seek to establish research and policy links with other institutions around the world. Co-directors: Aaron L. Friedberg and G. John Ikenberry