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Visit the Center's complete research archive. Below you will find a selection of recent publications by WCFIA Affiliates:

Chronicler of History’s Sweep: Publisher: Harvard Gazette; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; “Growing up, I don’t know if I ever thought of becoming a teacher,” said Erez Manela, recently tenured professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “I was always supposed to...; Published Date: November 2009 More

In Afghanistan, Kerry Keeps US Goals Modest: by Allison, Graham T., Jr.; Publisher: Boston Globe; Publication Type: Op-ed; PRESIDENT OBAMA confronts the most fateful foreign policy decision so far of his administration. Rapidly deteriorating security in Afghanistan, the post-election political crisis in Kabul,...; Published Date: November 2009 More

A Job Too Big for One Man: by Patterson, Orlando; Publisher: New York Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; IN the year since his election, as he has since he first appeared on the national stage, Barack Obama has embodied the fundamental paradoxes of race in America: that we live in a still racially...; Published Date: November 2009 More

The Impact of Alternative Constitutional Regimes on Religious Freedom in Canada and England: by Liviatan, Ofrit; This article examines whether the global trend of codifying rights in entrenched bills accompanied by judicial review to broaden rights protection is justified. By comparing the religious freedom...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: Winter 2009 More

How Environmentalists "Greened" Trade Policy: Strategic Action and the Architecture of Field Overlap: by Kay, Tamara; Evans, Rhonda; This article examines why and how environmental activists, despite considerable political weakness and disproportionally few resources, won substantive negotiating concessions that far outstripped...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: September 2009 More

If Democracies Need Informed Voters, Why Is It Democratic to Expand Enfranchisement?: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Three uncontroversial points add up to a paradox: 1) Almost every democratic theorist or democratic political actor sees an informed electorate as essential to good democratic practice. Citizens...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: September 20, 2009 More

How globalization shapes individual risk perceptions and policy preferences: by Walter, Stefanie; Maduz, Linda; How does globalization affect individuals and their perceptions and policy preferences? This paper uses new developments in international trade theory to propose a new way of conceptualizing and...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 2009 More

Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality: by Williamson, Jeffery G.; Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence—they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 2009 More

Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation: by Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffery G.; Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems to have dealt with the volatility better. Why? This paper explores Australian...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2009 More

The limits of reputation on compliance: by Brewster, Rachel; This short paper is a response to Andrew Guzman's book, How International Law Works. Guzman presents a novel synthesis of the IR approaches to IL by arguing that a state's concern with its reputation...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2009 More

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Upcoming Events

November 23, 2009: Ethics and International Affairs Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; "The Strategic Bankruptcy of the Long War" More »

November 23, 2009: Religion and Politics Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; "Muslims in the West after 9/11: Religion, Law and Politics" Discussant: Philip B. Heymann James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law... More »

November 23, 2009: Middle East Seminar; 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm; "Obama and the Arab World: Prospects for Change in American Mideast Policy" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. More »