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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 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.

Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Talks America's Strengths And Weaknesses: by Allison, Graham T., Jr.; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Type: Op-ed; Both in the United States and abroad, many influential observers argue that the U.S. is in systemic decline. Not so, says Lee Kuan Yew, the sage of Singapore. Lee is not only a student of the rise...; Published Date: February 2013 More

Will China Ever Be No. 1?: by Allison, Graham T., Jr.; Publisher: Foreign Policy; Publication Type: Op-ed; Will China continue to grow three times faster than the United States to become the No. 1 economy in the world in the decade ahead? Does China aspire to be the No. 1 power in Asia and ultimately the...; Published Date: February 2013 More

Theses on Urbanization: by Brenner, Neil; The urban has become a keyword of early twenty-first-century economic, political, and cultural discourse. But as its resonance has intensified in social science and in the public sphere, the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 2013 More

Harvard Economist Gita Gopinath Offers a Euro Cure: by Gopinath, Gita; Publisher: Businessweek; Publication Type: Op-ed; When French President François Hollande unveiled a plan in November for a business tax credit and higher sales taxes as a way to revive the economy, he was implementing an idea championed by...; Published Date: February 2013 More

Currency War Denial is Wishful Thinking: Publisher: Business Spectator; Publication Type: Op-ed; The leaders of the Group of Seven and Group of 20 largest economies have recently tried to talk down the risk of a currency war. This will not necessarily be sufficient to avoid one. The reason is...; Published Date: February 2013 More

A Chance at Justice in Guatemala: by Weld, Kirsten A.; Publisher: New York Times; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; Last Monday, a brave Guatemalan judge made history. In greenlighting a public trial for the former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide, the judge, Miguel Ángel Gálvez, made his...; Published Date: February 2013 More

Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe: by Stroschein, Sherrill; In societies divided on ethnic and religious lines, problems of democracy are magnified—particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. With the principle of majority rule, minorities should...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: May 2012 More

Sen named Chevalier Scholar: Bestowed France’s Highest Public Decoration: by Sen, Amartya; Publisher: Harvard Gazette; Publication Type: Magazine Article; Amartya Sen, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, has been decorated with the title of Chevalier in France’s Legion of Honor. Currently the Thomas W. Lamont University...; Published Date: November 2012 More

Do Primaries Improve Electoral Performance? Clientelism and Intra-Party Conflict in Ghana: by Nathan, Noah; Ichino, Nahomi; We consider the effect of legislative primaries on the electoral performance of political parties in a new democracy. While existing literature suggests that primaries may either hurt a party by...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2012 More

The EU and the Arctic: Which Way Forward?: by Airoldi, Adele; The long-awaited joint communication by the Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy “Developing a European Union Policy towards the Arctic Region: Progress...; Publication Type: Working Papers; Published Date: November 2012 More

Dignity in Resolving Conflicts is Topic of November 11 Cape Ann Forum: by Hicks, Donna; Publisher: Wicked Local; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; The Cape Ann Forum will host internationally known conflict resolution expert Donna Hicks on the importance of dignity in both causing and resolving clashes between individuals, groups and countries...; Published Date: November 2012 More

Political Budget Cycles and Intergovernmental Transfers in a Dominant Party Framework: Empirical Evidence from South Africa: by Kroth, Verena; This paper tests the theory of context-conditional political budget cycles in South Africa’s dominant party framework and demonstrates that the central government has both an incentive and the...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: November 2012 More

Election Reflection by Dukakis: by Huntington, Lucia; Publisher: The Harvard Gazette; Publication Type: Magazine Article; As the last days before the presidential election tick down, a man who has seen the sausage-making process from the inside said that there’s much at stake, and “every day is important here.”; Published Date: November 2012 More

Where Was Asia?: by Grietens, Sheena Chestnut; Publisher: New York Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; Tonight both presidential candidates acknowledged the centrality of Asia to America’s interests. The Obama administration offers its “Asia pivot” as a foreign policy success story. Mitt Romney...; Published Date: October 2012 More

A Précis of On Global Justice, With Emphasis on Implications for International Institutions: by Risse, Mathias; The two traditional ways of thinking about justice at the global level either limit the applicability of justice to states or else extend it to all human beings. The view I defend rejects both these...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2012 More

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