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.


From Possibility to Austerity
by Mylonas, Harris
Publisher: Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review
Publication Type: Op-ed
In the wake of the Cold War, the United States faced an ongoing dilemma of superpower proportions: Should it accept the global policeman’s badge and use its military might to patrol the world’s...
Published Date: April 2011 More
The Empire Strikes Back?
by Mylonas, Harris
Publisher: Kathimerini
Publication Type: Op-ed
The ripples from the debates in the capitals of European powers concerning military intervention in an oil-producing Middle Eastern country run by an enigmatic dictator once thought to have a WMD...
Published Date: April 2011 More
Analysis of Greece’s Cabinet Reshuffle
by Mylonas, Harris
Publisher: CNN.com
Publication Type: Op-ed
Three weeks of peaceful street protests; a couple of Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) members of parliament resigning this week; a few more PASOK members of parliament challenging the...
Published Date: June 2011 More
The End of Peaceful Protest?
by Mylonas, Harris
Publisher: Kathimerini
Publication Type: Op-ed
During the three days that the Greek Parliament was discussing and voting on the latest round of austerity measures, 138 police officers were injured, more than 500 protesters were hospitalized with...
Published Date: October 2011 More
Legal Transnationalism: The Relationship between Transnational Social Movement Building and International Law
by Kay, Tamara
This article examines the compelling enigma of how the introduction of a new international law, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), helped stimulate labor cooperation and...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: April 2011 More
Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
by Williamson, Jeffery G.
How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: January 2011 More

The Future of American Power
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: Foreign Affairs
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
The twenty-first century began with a very unequal distribution of power resources. With five percent of the world's population, the United States accounted for about a quarter of the world's...
Published Date: December 2010 More
Zakaria's World
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Op-ed
Fareed Zakaria is one of our most perceptive analysts of America's role in the world, and I generally agree with him. But in the case of his new special essay for Time, "Are America's Best...
Published Date: March 2011 More
American and Chinese Power after the Financial Crisis
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: Washington Quarterly
Publication Type: In the News
The United States has been widely blamed for the recent financial crisis. As the U.S. economy floundered and China continued to grow in the great recession of 2008–2009, Chinese authors launched...
Published Date: October 2010 More
The Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India.
by Iyer, Lakshmi
Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: March 2011 More
International Affairs and the Public Sphere
by Walt, Stephen M.
Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems. There is today no shortage of global problems that social scientists should study...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: August 2011 More
Oteka Okello Mxoka Lengomoi: A Legend Among the Acholi of Uganda
by Ocitti, Jim
Dr. Jim Ocitti is the author of two highly acclaimed books on Uganda: Political Evolution and Democratic Practice in Uganda 1952–1996 and Press, Politics and Public Policy in Uganda: The Role of...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: October 2010 More

America’s Choices—and Their Costs
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
America's last 10 years might be called “The Decade the Locusts Ate.’’ A nation that started with a credible claim to lead a second American century lost its way after the terrorist attacks...
Published Date: September 2011 More
Op-ed Moment: How to Protect the Homeland
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: the New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
Joseph S. Nye: ‘Protect the Homeland’ Joseph S. Nye reflects on his Op-Ed from Sept. 25, 2001, about the strategies needed to defeat terrorism. Read the original Op-ed, “How to Protect the...
Published Date: September 2011 More
How to Protect the Homeland
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: the New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
Five years ago, with James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, I headed a government study that found a lack of preparedness to face catastrophic terrorism. Our warnings and...
Published Date: September 2001 More