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The Weatherhead Center has developed a presence on the Internet that, to a growing readership, is playing a significant role in the projection of Harvard scholarship on international affairs. The site: faculty research available through categorical fields of inquiry; searches by author, subject, title or date of publication; Working Papers selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs; In the News links to op-ed and other pieces written by or about the Center’s faculty associates; and Recent Books by faculty associates, including editorial summaries. The Center is always adding to the hundreds of academic articles available on its site and responding to the interests of Center faculty and other users in making the site an indispensable scholarly tool.

Below are a selection of our most recently uploaded publications.

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

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

The Idea of Justice: by Sen, Amartya; Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how—and how...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: 2009 More

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly: by Rogoff, Kenneth S.; Reinhart, Carmen; Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing—and recovering—their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: 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

Conflict Nightmares and Trauma in Aceh: by Grayman, Jesse Hession; Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio; Good, Byron J.; In both the Acehnese and Indonesian languages, there is no single lexical term for “nightmare.” And yet findings from a large field research project in Aceh that examined post traumatic...; Published Date: June 2009 More

Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: Theory and Evidence from Pre-1914 Germany: by Ziblatt, Daniel; Why is there so much alleged electoral fraud in new democracies? Most scholarship focuses on the proximate cause of electoral competition. This article proposes a different answer by constructing and...; Published Date: February 2009 More

Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization? A Test of the 'Bread and Democracy' Thesis and the Case of Prussia?: by Ziblatt, Daniel; Does landholding inequality block democratization? This classic question in the study of political regimes concerned Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, and Alexander Gerschenkron. It is also a...; Published Date: July 2008 More

Epi+demos+cracy: Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities—Evidence, Gaps, and a Research A: by Beckfield, Jason; Krieger, Nancy; A new focus within both social epidemiology and political sociology investigates how political systems and priorities shape health inequities. To advance—and better integrate—research on...; Published Date: May 2009 More

A New Trichotomous Measure of World-system Position Using the International Trade Network: by Beckfield, Jason; Clark, Rob; Snyder and Kick’s (1979) measure of world-system position continues to serve as the premier trichotomous network indicator of a state’s location in the capitalist world economy. In this study, we...; Published Date: July 2009 More

Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health: by Hall, Peter A.; Lamont, Michèle; Why are some societies more successful than others at promoting individual and collective well-being? This book integrates recent research in social epidemiology with broader perspectives in social...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: August 2009 More

Linking international agricultural research knowledge with action for sustainable development: by Kristjanson, Patti; Reid, Robin S.; Dickson, Nancy; Clark, William C.; Romney, Dannie; Puskur, Ranjitha; MacMillan, Susan; Grace, Delia; We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and...; Published Date: February 2009 More

Negotiating a principled peace based on historic compromise: by Kelman, Herbert C.; Publisher: Meretz USA; Publication Type: Magazine Article; There are good reasons to be skeptical—even cynical—about the outcome of the Annapolis Conference and pessimistic about the prospects of achieving a negotiated agreement by the end of this year....; Published Date: August 2008 More

Human Rights Cities: Civic Engagement for Societal Development: by Marks, Stephen; A. Modrowski, Kathleen; This publication reviews one strategy that addresses both a broader and a narrower dimension of urban poverty.; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: 2008 More

Implementing the Right to Development: The Role of International Law: by Marks, Stephen; This collection of papers deals with the legal issues involved in considering an international convention on the right to development. It is the outcome of a meeting jointly convened by the Program...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: 2008 More

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