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.


Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
by Alfaro, Laura
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: January 2010 More

Constructing the International Economy
by Abdelal, Rawi E.
Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: May 2010 More

Dignity... We All Crave It, So Why Do We Keep Ignoring It?
by Hicks, Donna
Publisher: Fox News
Publication Type: Op-ed
“Treat people as they want to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   What is the motivating force behind all human interaction—in...
Published Date: October 2011 More
Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations
by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Hernandez, Rafael; Barberia, Lorena
Two decades ago affairs between the United States and Cuba had seen little improvement from the Cold War era. Today, US-Cuban relations are in many respects still in poor shape, yet some cooperative...
Publication Type: Edited Work
Published Date: August 2011 More

Making Democratic-Governance Work: The Consequences for Prosperity
by Norris, Pippa
Does democratic governance expand wealth and prosperity? There is no consensus about this issue despite the fact that for more than half a century, rival theories about the regime-growth relationship...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: October 2011 More
Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
by Hanna, Rema; Greenstone, Michael
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: September 2011 More
The Future of Convergence
by Rodrik, Dani
Novelists have a better track record than economists at foretelling the future. Consider then Gary Shteyngart’s timely comic novel Super Sad True Love Story (Random House, 2010), which provides a...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: October 2011 More
The Resurgence of the Latin American Left
by Levitsky, Steven
Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: July 2011 More

Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
by St. John, Rachel
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western US-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: June 2011 More

“There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism
by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Weaver, Vesla
For the first time in American history, the 2000 United States census allowed individuals to choose more than one race. That new policy sets up our exploration of whether and how multiracialism is...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: September 2010 More
Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America
by Kay, Tamara
Many sociologists have considered the intersection of race and gender in the production of social life, but while works on “intersectionality” have offered a useful paradigm for analyzing the...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: October 2004 More
Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance: The Impact of NAFTA on Transnational Labor Relationships in North America
by Kay, Tamara
This article examines how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) catalyzed cross-border labor cooperation and col- laboration (i.e., labor transnationalism), by creating a new political...
Publication Type: Published Work
Published Date: October 2005 More
Is Greece a Failing Developed State?
by Mylonas, Harris
Is the Greek crisis an isolated case or the first of a series of future failing developed states? The Greek financial crisis is not on the front page of the Financial Times anymore, but it is far...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 2011 More
This is No 1989 Moment for the Arab World
by Mylonas, Harris
Publisher: Guardian.co.uk
Publication Type: Op-ed
Analogies will be drawn in the coming weeks between the recent popular uprisings, most notably in Egypt, and the events beginning in 1989 and continuing into the early 1990s that brought democracy to...
Published Date: February 2011 More