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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.

Implementing the Right to Development: The Role of International Law: by Marks, Stephen; This collection of papers deals with the legal issues involved in considering an international convention on the right to development. It is the outcome of a meeting jointly convened by the Program...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: 2008 More

Health, Development, and Human Rights: by Marks, Stephen; The purpose of this chapter is to explore how the three concepts of human rights, health and human development have been defined and linked and what implications these linkages have for international...; Published Date: December 2008 More

How Development Matters: A Research Note on the Relationship between Development, Democracy and Women's Political Representation: by Viterna, Jocelyn; Fallon, Kathleen M.; Beckfield, Jason; Most studies find that the substantial cross-national variation in women's legislative representation is not explained by cross-national differences in socioeconomic development. By contrast, this...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: 2008 More

Democratization, Women’s Movements, and Gender-Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison: by Viterna, Jocelyn; There is a rich collection of case studies examining the relationship between democratization, women’s movements, and gendered state outcomes, but the variation across cases is still poorly...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: August 2008 More

Gendering Class in Latin America: How Women Effect and Experience Change in the Class Structure: by Viterna, Jocelyn; Female participation in the Latin American paid labor force is increasing dramatically. Building upon Fortes and Hoffman's (2003) model, we use occupational data to measure gendered changes in Latin...; Published Date: September 2004 More

Pulled, Pushed, and Persuaded: Explaining Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army: by Viterna, Jocelyn; Using a rare representative sample of grassroots activists and nonactivists, this study identifies three paths that consistently led Salvadoran women to involvement in the FMLM guerrilla army:...; Published Date: July 2006 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

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

If Democracies Need Informed Voters, Why Is It Democratic to Expand Enfranchisement?: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Three uncontroversial points add up to a paradox: 1) Almost every democratic theorist or democratic political actor sees an informed electorate as essential to good democratic practice. Citizens...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: September 20, 2009 More

United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Fernandez de Castro, Rafael; By sharing one of the longest land borders in the world, the United States and Mexico will always have a special relationship. In the early twenty-first century, they are as important to one another...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: March 2009 More

Consolidating Mexico's Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Lawson, Chappell H.; Moreno, Alejandro; In 2006, Felipe Calderón narrowly defeated Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico's hotly contested presidential election. Mexico's 2006 presidential race demonstrated the importance of contested...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: August 2009 More

The Past and Future of the Separation of Human Rights into Categories: by Marks, Stephen; It is a commonplace to recall that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) integrated civil and political rights (CPR) with economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), and that the two...; Published Date: April 2009 More

Globalization and Exchange Rate Policy: by Frieden, Jeffry; Exchange rates powerfully affect cross-border economic transactions. Trade, investment, finance, tourism, migration, and more are all profoundly influenced by international monetary policies. Many...; Published Date: January 2008 More

Global Governance of Global Monetary Relations: Rationale and Feasibility: by Frieden, Jeffry; Is there a valid argument for international cooperation, and some form of international governance structure, in the international monetary realm? On the purely economic front, the argument is not...; Published Date: March 2009 More

How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment: by Lamont, Michèle; Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it?; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: March 2009 More

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