Woodrow Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter inaugurated PolicyNet's new Virtual Seminar series with a talk about "networking as the best form of global governance." Students and faculty from five other PolicyNet schools participated via videoconference and video webcast.

A three-day workshop on global institutional reform titled "Rising States, Rising Institutions," will be held August 25 - 27 on the Princeton campus. The invitation-only event will convene past and current global governance researchers and experts in international relations, economics, international security, law, and management, who will examine the means by which global governance can encourage international development and economic growth, and maintain peace and stability.

Aaron David Miller, a public policy scholar at the Washington, D.C. based Woodrow Wilson Center and former Department of State advisor on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, will inaugurate the Woodrow Wilson School's Fall 2008 Public Affairs' lecture series with a talk titled "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace," at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, September 22, 2008, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.

A panel discussion titled "Adlai Stevenson's Lasting Legacy," will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.