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.


A Living Constitution
by Jasanoff, Sheila
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation are just beginning to unfold.
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: February 2011 More
Constitutional Moments in Governing Science and Technology
by Jasanoff, Sheila
Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) have recently been called upon to advise governments on the design of procedures for public engagement. Any such instrumental function should be...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: December 2011 More
Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics
by Toft, Monica Duffy; Kaufmann, Eric ; Goldstone, Jack A.
The field of political demography—the politics of population change—is dramatically underrepresented in political science.
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: May, 2012 More

Top Ten Media Failures in the Iran War Debate
by Walt, Stephen M.
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Op-ed
I did a brief interview for All Things Considered last Friday, on the topic of media handling of the current war scare over Iran. Here's a link to the story, which ran over the weekend. The...
Published Date: March 2012 More
Why Afghanistan was Obama's Biggest Mistake
by Walt, Stephen M.
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Op-ed
The killing of 16 Afghan civilians - nine of them children—by a rogue U.S. soldier is a tragedy in several senses. First, because of the loss of innocent life. Second, because the alleged...
Published Date: March 2012 More
Intermediaries for the IP market
by Yoffie, David B.; Hagiu, Andrei
During the past decade, a variety of intermediaries have emerged to facilitate the trading of patents: brokers, non-practicing entities (NPEs), defensive aggregators, online platforms, auctions and...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: October 2011 More
Socio-Psychological Motives of Socially Responsible Investors
by Puaschunder, Julia M.
The 2008/09 World Financial Crisis underlined the importance of social responsibility for the sustainable functioning of economic markets. Heralding an age of novel heterodox economic thinking, the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: March 2012 More
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
by Skocpol, Theda
On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli delivered a dramatic rant against Obama administration programs to shore up the plunging housing market. Invoking the Founding Fathers and...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: December 2011 More

Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Weaver, Vesla; Burch, Traci
The American racial order—the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities—is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s....
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March, 2012 More

Cuban Economic and Social Development: Policy Reforms and Challenges in the 21st Century
by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Pérez Villanueva, Omar; Prieto, Mayra Espina ; Barberia, Lorena
The Cuban economy has been transformed over the course of the last decade, and these changes are now likely to accelerate. In this edited volume, prominent Cuban economists and sociologists present a...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March, 2012 More

A North Korean Corleone
by Grietens, Sheena Chestnut
Publisher: New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
What kind of deal do you make with a 20-something who just inherited not only a country, but also the mantle of one of the world’s most sophisticated crime families? When Kim Jong-un, who is...
Published Date: March 2012 More
GAM Risks Becoming What It Fought
by Wandi, Agus
Publisher: The Jakarta Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
George Orwell’s classic novel “Animal Farm” is the definitive depiction of how any rebellion or social revolt risks not just failure but a reversal where one type of domination is merely...
Published Date: February 2012 More
The Strange Career of Voter Suppression
by Keyssar, Alexander
Publisher: NYtimes.com
Publication Type: Op-ed
The 2012 general election campaign is likely to be a fight for every last vote, which means that it will also be a fight over who gets to cast one.
Published Date: February 2012 More
Civilization: The West and The Rest
by Ferguson, Niall
The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of people...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: November 2011 More

Unexpected Consequences of Mexico's Drug War for US National Security: More Mexican Immigrants
by Rios, Viridiana
Mexican immigration figures have reached its lowest point since 2000. Yet, even if as a whole the US is receiving less Mexican migrants, the opposite is true for cities at the border. In this paper,...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: February 13, 2012 More