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.


Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents, Third Edition
by Marks, Stephen
The collection of materials in this latest edition of Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents has been updated and expanded from the first two editions to provide the practitioner,...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: January 2013 More

Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations
by Tambiah, Stanley J.; Fischer, Michael, M. J.; Aulino, Felicity ; Goheen, Miriam
In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March 2013 More

Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Terrorism
by Heymann, Philip B.; Blum, Gabriella
In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its "global war on terrorism," the Bush administration...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: February 2013 More

China Doesn't Belong in the BRICS
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: The Atlantic
Publication Type: Op-ed
China's new president, Xi Jinping, arrives in Durban, South Africa today for a summit of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. A geo-economic acronym invented in 2001 by a...
Published Date: March 2013 More
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.; Blackwill, Robert D.; Wyne, Ali
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: February 2013 More

From Abortion to Islam: The Changing Function of Law in Europe's Cultural Debates
by Liviatan, Ofrit
The Article rethinks the law’s role in present-day European debates over Islam in light of its calming effects on the once fiercely-fought abortion reforms across Western Europe. Using examples...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 2013 More
From Abortion to Islam: The Changing Function of Law in Europe's Cultural Debates
by Liviatan, Ofrit
The Article rethinks the law’s role in present-day European debates over Islam in light of its calming effects on the once fiercely-fought abortion reforms across Western Europe. Using examples...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 2013 More
Varieties of Popular Nationalism in Modern Democracies: An Inductive Approach to Comparative Research on Political Culture
by Bonikowski, Bart
Contemporary nationalism is typically framed as an oppositional ideology that legitimates the struggles of ethnic minorities for political sovereignty or, alternatively, justifies the xenophobic...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: March 2013 More
The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities
by Mylonas, Harris
What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: February 2013 More

Is This Any Way to Run US Foreign Policy?
by Walt, Stephen M.
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Op-ed
Watching the musical chairs taking place in the first months of Obama's second term reminds me of how fundamentally unserious America's approach to foreign affairs really is. Kerry and Hagel are now...
Published Date: March 2013 More
Treat Millionaires Like They’re Billionaires
by Feldman, Noah
Publisher: Bloomberg
Publication Type: Op-ed
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether it violates free speech to bar you from donating more than $117,000 every two years to your favorite political candidates and national party...
Published Date: February 2013 More
Are They Watching You? That’s a Secret
by Feldman, Noah
Publisher: Bloomberg
Publication Type: Op-ed
Think Big Brother is tapping your phone and reading your e-mail? Want to go to court and make the government prove its surveillance program is constitutional? Well, you can’t, according to the...
Published Date: March 2013 More
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