Faculty members from the Departments of Government and History at Harvard and the Kennedy School of Government are involved in the work of the Institute through active and regular participation in its seminars, study groups, and research projects.

BEAR BRAUMOELLER is an associate professor in the Department of Government, and a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Davis Center for Russian and East European Studies. Professor Braumoeller's interests include the sources of war and conflict, political methodology (tailoring statistical methodology to fit the particular needs of students of world politics), international relations theory (in particular, systemic theories of international relations), and Russian foreign affairs (especially the relationship between belief systems and foreign policy behavior). His current projects include a book-length manuscript in which he derives and tests a new systemic theory of international politics and an article in which he dissects and debunks the myth of American isolationism.

ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON is the Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs at Harvard University. He teaches courses on the international relations of East Asia, Chinese foreign policy, international relations theory, and the concept of identity in the social sciences. Professor Johnston's research focuses on the ideational sources of strategic choice. He is currently working on or finishing up four projects: a book on socialization in international institutions entitled Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000 forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2007, which examines three micro-processes of socialization persuasion, social influence and mimicking and their effect on China's participation in international security institutions; a forthcoming volume on comparative regional institutional development co-edited with Amitav Acharya of the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore and entitled Crafting Cooperation: The Design and Effectiveness of Regional Institutions from Cambridge University Press, 2007; a collaborative project on the development of measurement techniques for the analysis of identity as a variable; and a project on Chinese public opinion on international affairs. He also published an edited volume with Robert S. Ross entitled, New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy from Stanford University Press, 2006, and an article entitled, "Conclusions and Extensions: Toward Mid-range Theorizing and Beyond Europe" in International Organization in fall of 2005. Professor Johnston gave presentations on Chinese attitudes toward the US, theory and method in the study of Chinese foreign policy, and crisis management in Sino-US relations.

EREZ MANELA is an assistant professor of history at Harvard University and Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He studies international history and U.S. foreign relations, with a special focus on the history of international society and on North-South relations. His first book, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism, examines how Wilsonian language influenced national movements in Asia and the Middle East.

MONICA DUFFY TOFT is an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Professor Toft's The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory was published by Princeton University Press in September 2003, and a second book entitled The Fog of Peace: Military and Strategic Planning Under Uncertainty was just published. Professor Toft is currently finishing a book on the termination of civil wars and several articles on the role of religion in war.