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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.

Complementary Rather than Contradictory: Diversity and Excellence in Peer Review and Admissions in American Higher Education: by Lamont, Michèle; Moraes Da Silva, Graziella; Diversity is largely accepted as a positive value in American society. Nevertheless, policies to encourage diversity, e.g. affirmative action, language policies and legalising illegal immigrants,...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: February 2009 More

How globalization shapes individual risk perceptions and policy preferences: by Walter, Stefanie; Maduz, Linda; How does globalization affect individuals and their perceptions and policy preferences? This paper uses new developments in international trade theory to propose a new way of conceptualizing and...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 2009 More

Access to Essential Medicines as a Component of the Right to Health: by Marks, Stephen; In Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors, Andrew Clapham wrote, "Perhaps the most obvious threat to human rights has come from the inability of people to achieve access to expensive...; Published Date: April 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

Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World: by Elliot, Mark C.; During the 64 years of Qianlong’s rule, China’s population more than doubled, its territory increased by one-third, its cities flourished, and its manufactures — tea, silk, porcelain — were...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: April 2009 More

Vanishing Third World Emigrants?: by Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffery G.; This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: February 2009 More

Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality: by Williamson, Jeffery G.; Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence—they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 2009 More

Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response: by Pamuk, Şevket; Williamson, Jeffery G.; India and Britain were much bigger players in the 18th century world market for textiles than was Egypt, the Levant and the core of the Ottoman Empire, but these eastern Mediterranean regions did...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: February 2009 More

Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation: by Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffery G.; Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems to have dealt with the volatility better. Why? This paper explores Australian...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2009 More

Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700: by David S. Jacks; Kevin H. O'Rourke; Williamson, Jeffery G.; Poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, and we know this volatility impedes their growth. We also know that commodity price volatility is a key source of those shocks. This paper...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: February 2009 More

Japan and the Axis, 1937-8: Recognition of the Franco Regime and Manchukuo: by Rodao, Florentino; After just one year of the Spanish Civil War, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident led to the Sino-Japanese War, both conflicts remaining for two years as daily reminders of the world conflicts of the...; Published Date: July 2009 More

Hello from Havana: Nuanced but unmistakable stirrings of change in Cuba: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Publisher: Harvard Magazine; Publication Type: Op-ed; President Raúl Castro’s principal contribution thus far to the lives of ordinary Cubans has been that television soap operas now start on time. He often reminds his fellow citizens of this...; Published Date: August 2009 More

A Fairer Credit Card? Priceless: by Bubb, Ryan; Kaufman, Alex; Publisher: New York Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; Industry representatives would have you believe that the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act enacted last month spells the end of the credit card as we know it. President...; Published Date: June 2009 More

Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Mollenkopf, John; For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether and how they assimilate. In Bringing Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: June 2009 More

World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions: by Frieden, Jeffry; Lake, David A.; Schultz, Kenneth A.; This new introduction to world politics by three leading scholars offers a contemporary analytical approach based on the way political scientists study international relations today. Each chapter...; Publication Type: Edited Work; Published Date: June 2009 More

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