Publications

Published Papers

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty: by Lamont, Michèle; Small, Mario Luis; Harding, David J.; Publisher: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: May 2010 More

Israel and Palestine—Two States for Two Peoples: If Not Now, When?: by Kelman, Herbert C.; Martin, Lenore G.; Walt, Stephen M.; Berger, Alan; Cox, Harvey ; Mendelsohn, Everette; Norton, Augustus Richard; Steiner, Henry J.; The Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace is comprised of professional and academic members with strong interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some have been intensely engaged with this...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2010 More

The Impact of Alternative Constitutional Regimes on Religious Freedom in Canada and England: by Liviatan, Ofrit; This article examines whether the global trend of codifying rights in entrenched bills accompanied by judicial review to broaden rights protection is justified. By comparing the religious freedom...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: Winter 2009 More

Judicial Activism and Religion-Based Tensions in India and Israel: by Liviatan, Ofrit; Contemporary democratic reality is characterized by the growing role of courts in politics, as social activists regularly utilize the judicial process in an attempt to secure their values and...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2009 More

Unpacking the State's Reputation: by Brewster, Rachel; International law scholars debate when international law matters to states, how it matters, and whether we can improve compliance. One of the few areas of agreement is that fairly robust levels...; Published Date: September 2009 More

A New Trichotomous Measure of World-system Position Using the International Trade Network: by Beckfield, Jason; Clark, Rob; Snyder and Kick’s (1979) measure of world-system position continues to serve as the premier trichotomous network indicator of a state’s location in the capitalist world economy. In this study, we...; Published Date: July 2009 More

Japan and the Axis, 1937-8: Recognition of the Franco Regime and Manchukuo: by Rodao, Florentino; After just one year of the Spanish Civil War, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident led to the Sino-Japanese War, both conflicts remaining for two years as daily reminders of the world conflicts of the...; Published Date: July 2009 More

The limits of reputation on compliance: by Brewster, Rachel; This short paper is a response to Andrew Guzman's book, How International Law Works. Guzman presents a novel synthesis of the IR approaches to IL by arguing that a state's concern with its reputation...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2009 More

Conflict Nightmares and Trauma in Aceh: by Grayman, Jesse Hession; Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio; Good, Byron J.; In both the Acehnese and Indonesian languages, there is no single lexical term for “nightmare.” And yet findings from a large field research project in Aceh that examined post traumatic...; Published Date: June 2009 More

Epi+demos+cracy: Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities—Evidence, Gaps, and a Research A: by Beckfield, Jason; Krieger, Nancy; A new focus within both social epidemiology and political sociology investigates how political systems and priorities shape health inequities. To advance—and better integrate—research on...; Published Date: May 2009 More