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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.

What about austerity?: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Enriquez, Juan; Publisher: The Boston Globe; Publication Type: Op-ed; Within the billions of sentences about the financial bailout there is one word notably absent, austerity. All talk is of payments, supports, subsidies, incurring more debt, stimulus packages. The...; Published Date: October 2008 More

Population Shifts and Civil War: A Test of Power Transition Theory: by Toft, Monica Duffy; Do shifts in the distribution of ethnic group populations within a multinational state make civil war more likely? This article tests the proposition that they do using the competing logic of two...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2008 More

The Myth of the Borderless World: Refugees and Repatriation Policy: by Toft, Monica Duffy; This essay explores the impact of the end of the Cold War on the counter-refugee-crisis policies of the United Nations and its strongest member states. I argue that during the ColdWar, state...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2007 More

Why God is Winning: by Toft, Monica Duffy; Shah, Timothy; The belief that outbreaks of politicized religion are temporary detours on the road to secularization was plausible in 1976, 1986, or even 1996. Today, the argument is untenable. As a framework for...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: More

Why Islam Lies at the Heart of Iraq's Civil War: by Toft, Monica Duffy; Publisher: Christian Science Monitor; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; It matters what we call things. It took too long for the Bush administration to admit that its intended liberation of Iraq had become an occupation, that US forces faced a home-grown insurgency...; Published Date: June 2008 More

Do All Bridges Collapse? Possibilities for Democracy in the European Union: by Rodrik, Dani; Fung, Archon; It is tempting, but wrong, to infer from the failures of the EU draft constitution that all reforms based on increasing citizen participation in the European Union are doomed to fail. Andrew...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 2007 More

Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion?: by Rodrik, Dani; Proponents and critics alike agree that the policies spawned by the Washington Consensus have not produced the desired results. The debate now is not over whether the Washington Consensus is dead or...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 2006 More

What You Export Matters: by Rodrik, Dani; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hwang, Jason; When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2007 More

How to Save Globalization from its Cheerleaders: by Rodrik, Dani; When future economic historians write their textbooks, they will no doubt marvel at the miraculous turn the world economy took after 1950. Over the long stretch of history, neither the Industrial...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: More

Second-Best Institutions: by Rodrik, Dani; The focus of reforms in the developing world has moved from getting prices right to getting institutions right. This reflects the recognition that markets are unlikely to work well in the absence of...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 2008 More

Normalizing Industrial Policy: by Rodrik, Dani; The theoretical case for industrial policy is a strong one. The market failures that industrial policies target—in markets for credit, labor, products, and knowledge—have long been at the core of...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: 2008 More

Biofuels and Sustainable Development: by Clark, William C.; Devereux, Michael; Lee, Henry; The goals and concerns surrounding the debate over government policies related to the greater use and production of biofuels were addressed in an executive session convened by the John F. Kennedy...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2008 More

The Legacies of Law: by Meierhenrich, Jens; Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650–2000, this highly original book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. The Legacies of Law sheds light on the...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: October 2008 More

Modeling Immigrant Political Incorporation: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Mollenkopf, John; By definition, immigrants have always been included in some fashion or other in states to which they permanently migrate. In some countries and at some times, immigrants have been granted or have...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2009 More

Contingent Public Policies and Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policies: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Burch, Traci; Individually or in combination, two federal policies have the potential to transform the American racial and ethnic hierarchy more than any other policy changes since the civil rights movement. They...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2007 More

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