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The United Kingdom has published its first National Security Strategy. The strategy highlights the nature of the new security challenges, how they have changed, and how the UK is responding. The Weatherhead Center recently held a round-table discussion on the priorities and constituents of a National Security Strategy that featured WCFIA Fellows Nicholas Beadle, Chad Manske, Ed Passmore and Christof Weil. Nicholas Beadle has been playing a role in the creation of the UK strategy. Read about the UK National Security Strategy. Download: PDF (980KB)

Below are a selection of recent publications by WCFIA affiliates.

It's not the price that causes hunger
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Publication Type: Op-ed
International prices of rice, wheat and corn have risen sharply, setting off violent urban protests in roughly a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But is this a "world food...
Published Date: April 2008 More
Turkey's Constitutional Crisis—From Lose-Lose to Win-Win
by Martin, Lenore G.
Publisher: Middle East Progress
Publication Type: Op-ed
The March 31, 2008 decision of Turkey’s Constitutional Court to hear a case that could bring down the governing Justice and Development Party (also known in Turkey as AKP) has provoked a...
Published Date: April 2008 More
Former fellow establishes program at Weatherhead
Publisher: Harvard University Gazette
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has established a new Program on Transatlantic Relations, thanks to a donation by Pierre Keller of Geneva. Keller was a fellow in 1979–80 at the...
Published Date: April 2008 More
When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century AfricaWhen Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa
by Bates, Robert H.
In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H....
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: April 2008 More

Reconciliation from a social-psychological perspective
by Kelman, Herbert C.
Until recently, the term "reconciliation" was used primarily (although with some notable exceptions) in religious discourse. It was not often subjected to systematic analysis by political scientists...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2008 More
A 'declaration of principles' for the Mideast
by Kelman, Herbert C.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
HAIM RAMON, a vice prime minister of Israel, recently stated that Israel hoped to reach agreement with its Palestinian negotiating partners by the end of 2008 on a "declaration of...
Published Date: March 2008 More
Consumers Want to do the Right Thing
by Schorow, Stephanie
Publisher: Harvard University Gazette
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Data suggest buyers willing to pay more to humane producers. A majority of consumers want to do the right thing. That is, in numerous studies, consumers say that they are willing to pay more for...
Published Date: March 2008 More
Cover of Starved for ScienceStarved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Heading upcountry in Africa to visit small farms is absolutely exhilarating given the dramatic beauty of big skies, red soil, and arid vistas, but eventually the two-lane tarmac narrows to rutted...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March 2008 More

Toward a Liberal Realist Foreign Policy: A Memo for the Next President
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: Harvard Magazine
Publication Type: Magazine Article
On January 20, you will inherit a legacy of trouble: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, North Korea for starters. Failure to manage any one of them could mire your presidency and sap your political...
Published Date: March 2008 More
The rebirth of American civic life
by Putnam, Robert D.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
In the mushrooming procedural debate about Democratic superdelegates and the uncontested Florida and Michigan primaries, more is at stake than the identity of the presidential nominee or even the...
Published Date: March 2008 More