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.


The Impact of Protestant Fundamentalism on Educational Attainment
by Alfred Darnell and Darren Sherkat
After the debates that raged during the 1960s and 1970s, sociologists lost interest in studying the material consequences of religious orientations. In this article, Alfred Darnell and Darren...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: April 1997 More
Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics
by Keohane, Robert
Thomas Hobbes posited a dilemma between insecure anarchy and predatory despotism, but both of these situations are highly unsatisfactory. In a nuclear age, insecure anarchy is too dangerous; in a...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1993 More
Contested Meanings: India's National Identity, Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Anxiety
by Varshney, Ashutosh
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1993 More
Linkage and Legalism in Institutions: Evidence From Agricultural Trade Negotiations
by Davis, Christina
In a comparative study of Japanese and European trade policy, this paper explains how the institutional context of negotiations affects political outcomes. I examine two pathways by which...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: February 2001 More
Paying for the Privilege of Bank of England Charters, 1694-1843
by Broz, J. Lawrence
To discern the public and private motivations behind the establishment and continuance of the Bank of England, we analyze the timing of legislation that renewed the Bank’s charter. The Bank’s...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 2001 More
Organizing Violence
by Bates, Robert H.
Coercion is as normal a part of life as is exchange; what matters is not its presence or magnitude but rather its structure and form. Violence can take the form of predation; it then results in mere...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 2001 More
Mutual Recognition Regimes: Towards a Comparative Analysis
by Nicolaïdis, Kalypso
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1998 More
Explaining the Emergence of Human Rights Regimes: Liberal Democracy and Political Uncertainty in Postwar Europe
by Moravcsik, Andrew
Formal international human rights regimes differ from most other forms of international cooperation in that their primary purpose is to hold governments accountable to their own citizens for purely...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: December 1998 More
In the Shadow of the Wall: Germany's Eastern Trade Policy After Unification
by Wallander, Celeste A.
Since 1989, Germany's domestic and international environments have experienced significant changes. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that the country's long–standing foreign and domestic policies...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1996 More
Large-Bank Finance and the Limits of Mass Privatization in Eastern Europe: The Case of the Czech Republic
by Desai, Raj M.
For its speed, scope, and openness, the Czechoslovak mass privatization program is considered the model to be followed by economies in Eastern Europe and elsewhere grappling with stalled or...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1996 More
Crime and Punishment: The Role of Norms in Crisis Bargaining
by Gelpi, Christopher
In this work I test the proposition that normative standards of behavior can influence state actions in security related conflicts. Specifically, I examine the construction of norms in the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1995 More
Ethnic Conflict and Rational Choice: A Theoretical Engagement
by Varshney, Ashutosh
The world is going through an ethnic and nationalistic resurgence. In political science, however, rational choice theories and methods have acquired great popularity over the last decade and a half....
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1995 More
Obedient Servant or Runaway Eurocracy? Delegation, Agency, and Agenda Setting in the European Community
by Pollack, Mark A.
The European Community features a number of important supranational institutions, including the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the European Parliament. The nature and extent...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1995 More
Is Growth in Developing Countries Beneficial to Developed Countries?
by Cooper, Richard N.
Growth in developing countries, particularly that brought about through trade liberalization, will affect developed countries in many ways, mostly to their benefit. Trade liberalization will...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1995 More
The Political Economy of Nontariff Barriers: A Cross-National Analysis
by Busch, Marc L.
This article develops and tests a model in which nontariff barriers are expected to be most pervasive when deteriorating macroeconomic conditions give rise to demands for protection by pressure...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1995 More