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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 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.

Reforming the International Financial System: by Cooper, Richard N.; Late in 2001 the new Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Anne Krueger, boldly suggested that under certain conditions international debt repayments by a sovereign...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: April 2002 More

Religion and Violence: Social Processes in Comparative Perspective: by John R. Hall; Religion is often held up as a vessel of peace, both inner and social. How, then, to understand its violent currents? Given an uneven trend over the centuries toward cultural pluralism and freedom,...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: August 2003 More

Educating Voters: by Gene M. Grossman; This landmark theoretical book is about the mechanisms by which special interest groups affect policy in modern democracies. Defining a special interest group as any organization that takes action...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: November 2000 More

Banking Crises and the Effect of Political Checks and Balances on Special Interest Influence: by Philip Keefer; This paper — a revision of an earlier draft that was entitled "When Do Special Interests Run Rampant? Disentangling the Role of Elections, Incomplete Information and Checks and Balances in...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: October 2001 More

Does Democracy Engender Equality?: by John E. Roemer; Many suppose that democracy is an ethos which requires, inter alia, a degree of economic equality among citizens. In contrast, we conceive of democracy as ruthless electoral competition between...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

Sharing the Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows: by Desai, Mihir A.; This paper argues that cross–border human capital flows from developing countries to developed countries over the next half–century will demand a new set of policy responses from developing...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2002 More

The Contested Governance of GM Foods: Implications for U.S.-EU Trade and the Developing World: by Paarlberg, Robert L.; Genetically modified (GM) foods are widely produced in the United States and in two other Western Hemisphere countries (Argentina and Canada) but almost nowhere else. In most other wealthy...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2002 More

Toward an Uncivil Society? Contextualizing the Recent Decline of Extremely Right-Wing Parties in Russia: by Umland, Andreas; Since the late 1990s, the relative weight of ultra–nationalist parties in Russian parliamentary and extra–parliamentary politics has, after reaching a certain peak in the mid–1990s, declined....; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: January 2002 More

The Global Governance of Trade -- As If Development Really Mattered (a UNDP Background Paper): by Rodrik, Dani; It is widely accepted, not least in the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO), that the purpose of the world trade regime is to raise living standards all around the world —...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2001 More

How Sushi Went Global: by Bestor, Theodore C.; A 500–pound tuna is caught off the coast of New England or Spain, flown thousands of miles to Tokyo, sold for tens of thousands of dollars to Japanese buyers…and shipped to chefs in New York and...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2000 More

The Neglected Epidemic: Road Traffic Injuries in Developing Countries: by Reich, Michael R.; (from the British Medical Journal, Volume 324, 11 May 2002) Road traffic injuries are a major cause of death and disability globally, with a disproportionate number occurring in developing...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: May 2002 More

Beyond Bin Laden: Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy: by Walt, Stephen M.; The terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon triggered the most rapid and dramatic change in the history of U.S.foreign policy. On September 10, 2001, there...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2001 More

The Ignored Transition: Post-Communist State Development: by Grzymala-Busse, Anna; Luong, Pauline Jones; This study reconceptualizes theories of the state in light of post–communist developments. After the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, scholars...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: March 2002 More

Tracking the Restructuring of American Religion: Religious Affiliation and Patterns of Religious Mobility, 1973-1998: by Darren Sherkat; Many of the theoretical controversies in the sociology of religion have pertained to trends and patterns of religious mobility . Recently, scholars have claimed that diminishing status differences...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2001 More

The Effect of Parents' Fundamentalism on Children's Educational Attainment: Examining Differences by Gender and Children's Funda: by Darren Sherkat and Alfred Darnell; New light has recently been shed on the influence of fundamentalist Protestant orientations on educational attainment; such reexamination has revived debates over the material consequences of...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 1999 More

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