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 includes: 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 collection of published journal 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.


Military’s Limits Show Need for America’s Neglected Weapon
by Burns, Nicholas
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
The attacks of 9/11 brought us a decade of war with the seemingly endless and bloody occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan—the most intensive period of US military deployments in our history. But,...
Published Date: February 2013 More
Mexico Breaking Good?
by Rogoff, Kenneth S.
Publisher: Project Syndicate
Publication Type: Op-ed
For a glimpse of the average American’s understanding of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, one only has to watch the critically acclaimed television series Breaking Bad. Set...
Published Date: March 2013 More
Our Pacific Predicament
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: The American Interest
Publication Type: Op-ed
Japan and China have been much in the news lately because of their dispute over seven square kilometers of barren islets in the East China Sea that Japan calls the Senkaku and China calls the Diaoyu...
Published Date: March 2013 More
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Talks America's Strengths And Weaknesses
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: Forbes
Publication Type: Op-ed
Both in the United States and abroad, many influential observers argue that the U.S. is in systemic decline. Not so, says Lee Kuan Yew, the sage of Singapore. Lee is not only a student of the rise...
Published Date: February 2013 More
Will China Ever Be No. 1?
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Op-ed
Will China continue to grow three times faster than the United States to become the No. 1 economy in the world in the decade ahead? Does China aspire to be the No. 1 power in Asia and ultimately the...
Published Date: February 2013 More
Theses on Urbanization
by Brenner, Neil
The urban has become a keyword of early twenty-first-century economic, political, and cultural discourse. But as its resonance has intensified in social science and in the public sphere, the...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 2013 More
Harvard Economist Gita Gopinath Offers a Euro Cure
by Gopinath, Gita
Publisher: Businessweek
Publication Type: Op-ed
When French President François Hollande unveiled a plan in November for a business tax credit and higher sales taxes as a way to revive the economy, he was implementing an idea championed by...
Published Date: February 2013 More
Currency War Denial is Wishful Thinking
Publisher: Business Spectator
Publication Type: Op-ed
The leaders of the Group of Seven and Group of 20 largest economies have recently tried to talk down the risk of a currency war. This will not necessarily be sufficient to avoid one. The reason is...
Published Date: February 2013 More
A Chance at Justice in Guatemala
by Weld, Kirsten A.
Publisher: New York Times
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Last Monday, a brave Guatemalan judge made history. In greenlighting a public trial for the former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide, the judge, Miguel Ángel Gálvez, made his...
Published Date: February 2013 More
Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe
by Stroschein, Sherrill
In societies divided on ethnic and religious lines, problems of democracy are magnified—particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. With the principle of majority rule, minorities should...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: May 2012 More

Sen named Chevalier Scholar: Bestowed France’s Highest Public Decoration
by Sen, Amartya
Publisher: Harvard Gazette
Publication Type: Magazine Article
Amartya Sen, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, has been decorated with the title of Chevalier in France’s Legion of Honor. Currently the Thomas W. Lamont University...
Published Date: November 2012 More
Do Primaries Improve Electoral Performance? Clientelism and Intra-Party Conflict in Ghana
by Nathan, Noah; Ichino, Nahomi
We consider the effect of legislative primaries on the electoral performance of political parties in a new democracy. While existing literature suggests that primaries may either hurt a party by...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: November 2012 More
The EU and the Arctic: Which Way Forward?
by Airoldi, Adele
The long-awaited joint communication by the Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy “Developing a European Union Policy towards the Arctic Region: Progress...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: November 2012 More
Dignity in Resolving Conflicts is Topic of November 11 Cape Ann Forum
by Hicks, Donna
Publisher: Wicked Local
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
The Cape Ann Forum will host internationally known conflict resolution expert Donna Hicks on the importance of dignity in both causing and resolving clashes between individuals, groups and countries...
Published Date: November 2012 More
Political Budget Cycles and Intergovernmental Transfers in a Dominant Party Framework: Empirical Evidence from South Africa
by Kroth, Verena
This paper tests the theory of context-conditional political budget cycles in South Africa’s dominant party framework and demonstrates that the central government has both an incentive and the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: November 2012 More