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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.

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

Genealogies of STS: by Jasanoff, Sheila; Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating some pages of the past while consigning others to forgetfulness. Official memories reinforce dominant cultural...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

The Twenty-First Century Will Not Be a Post-American World: by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.; One of the refreshing aspects of Christopher Layne’s work over the years has been his willingness to challenge conventional wisdom. But now, he is in the awkward position of being part of a new...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2012 More

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Understanding Human Security: by Norris, Pippa; Since the end of the Cold War, security studies have broadened to take into account a wide range of non-military threats ranging from poverty to environmental concerns rather than just national...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2012 More

Muslim Integration into Western Cultures: Between Origins and Destinations: by Norris, Pippa; Inglehart, Ronald; To what extent do migrants carry their culture with them, and to what extent do they acquire the culture of their new home? The answer not only has important political implications; it also helps us...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

God and Ceasar in America: by Putnam, Robert D.; Campbell, David E.; Publisher: Foreign Affairs; Publication Type: Op-ed; A Feb. 29 update to the print story from the March/April issue: In the wake of the Great Recession it would seem natural that the 2012 election would be fought over economic issues. Yet so far in...; Published Date: March 2012 More

The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short- and Long-Run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe: by Hornbeck, Richard; The 1930s American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. The Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

Saving Money or Just Saving Lives? Improving the Productivity of US Health Care Spending: by Chandra, Amitabh; Baicker, Katherine; Skinner, Jonathan S.; There is growing concern over the rising share of the US economy devoted to health care spending. Fueled in part by demographic transitions, unchecked increases in entitlement spending will...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2012 More

The Health Care Jobs Fallacy: by Chandra, Amitabh; Baicker, Katherine; The United States is in the throes of the most serious recession in post-war history. Despite improving employment numbers, the official unemployment rate still exceeded 8% in March 2012. Amidst this...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

A Comparison of Product Price Targeting and Other Monetary Anchor Options, for Commodity Exporters in Latin America: by Frankel, Jeffrey; Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which tend to be price...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2011 More

Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis: by Frankel, Jeffrey; Saravelos, George; We investigate whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Rather than looking for indicators with specific relevance to the recent...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2012 More

Religion and Politics, Now: by Hehir, J. Bryan; Publisher: The Harvard Gazette; Publication Type: Magazine Article; More than half a century after John F. Kennedy dismissed the role that his Catholic faith would play when he was elected president, today’s candidates for the nation’s highest executive office...; Published Date: October 2012 More

Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: "No Longer I": by Stang, Charles; This book examines the writings of an early sixth-century Christian mystical theologian who wrote under the name of a convert of the apostle Paul, Dionysius the Areopagite. This 'Pseudo'-Dionysius...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: April 2012 More

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