Publications

WCFIA Publications

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.


Pious Words Won't Heal the Hurt
by McTernan, Oliver
Publisher: The Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
A former priest, Oliver McTernan, explains why American Catholics feel betrayed by the Church The fact that Pope John Paul II has chosen to meet only cardinals today, many of whom are themselves...
Published Date: April 2002 More
Lessons from Afghanistan
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: The Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
The battle in east Afghanistan is winding down, and President Bush has offered to train other governments for the second stage in the war on terrorism. Though the American military officials assure...
Published Date: March 2002 More
U.S. Must Help Argentina Recover
by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Levitsky, Steven
Publisher: Miami Herald
Publication Type: Op-ed
The Bush administration, like its two predecessors, has expressed strong support for democracy in the Americas. It is now time to put its money where its mouth is. Argentina's story in the 1990s...
Published Date: January 2002 More
El Futuro de la Política Exterior de Estados Unidos
by Hidalgo, Diego
Publisher: El País
Publication Type: Op-ed
Reconociendo las dificultades para analizar una situación mundial cada vez más compleja, Mijaíl Gorbachov y yo tratamos de identificar hace apenas un año los principales problemas con los que...
Published Date: More
Defeating Desperate Dictators
by Rosen, Stephen Peter
Publisher: The Wall Street Journal
Publication Type: Op-ed
How can the United States conduct a war to remove Saddam Hussein from power if Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them?
Published Date: More
Is Bush Provoking an Attack?
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: The Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
Ranchers have learned painfully the wisdom of the maxim: when pursuing deadly rattlesnakes, don't provoke the fatal attack you are aiming to prevent. Does the Bush administration's chosen strategy...
Published Date: October 2002 More
African Famine, Made in Europe
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Publisher: The Wall Street Journal
Publication Type: Op-ed
Southern Africa is suffering its worst drought in a decade. The U.N. World Food Program estimates some 13 million people in six countries will need 1.2 million tons of food aid till March 2003 to...
Published Date: August 2002 More
A Better Society in a Time of War
by Putnam, Robert D.
Publisher: The New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The America of six decades ago now seems achingly familiar. The attack on Pearl Harbor, like the attacks of Sept. 11, evoked feelings of pride and citizenship - as well as anxiety...
Published Date: October 2001 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

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
Strong Civil Society as a Double-Edged Sword: Siting Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans
by Aldrich, Daniel P.; Crook, Kevin
To meet the dire need for housing created by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans and the staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worked...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: December 2006 More
The Second World War as an Economic Disaster
by Ferguson, Niall
On April 20, 1949, the New York Times carried three items about Japan. The most arresting headline was: "Japan’s War Cost Is Put at $31 Billion; 2,252,000 Buildings Razed, 1,850,000...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 23, 2006 More
The Pity of Peace: The Origins of the Second World War Revisited
by Ferguson, Niall
Not all of the judgements in A. J. P. Taylor’s The Origins of the Second World War, published forty-five years ago, have stood the test of time. Taylor was right about the Western powers: the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 19, 2006 More