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: 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.


Avoiding the worst: International economic cooperation and domestic politics
by Frieden, Jeffry
Publisher: Vox
Publication Type: Op-ed
If the crisis turns into a new Great Depression, it will most likely be due to a breakdown of cooperation among the major economies. But sustaining international cooperation requires domestic...
Published Date: February 2009 More
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Names Manela Visiting Scholar
Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publication Type: Op-ed
Erez Manela, the Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History at Harvard University, is among eight individuals who have been awarded fellowships as part of the American Academy of Arts and...
Published Date: January 2009 More
Intimate Enemies: Towards a Social Psychology of Reconciliation
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
On August 28, 2003, the Commissioners of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) submitted their Final Report to President Alejandro Toledo and the nation. After two years of work and...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: December 2005 More
Género en transición: sentido común, mujeres y guerra
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
Este artículo explora algunos testimonios surgidos en las comisiones de verdad en el Perú y sus implicaciones en relación con las mujeres y la guerra. Examina lo que constituye las estrategias de...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: February 2007 More
Truth with Consequences: Justice and Reparations in Post-Truth Commission Peru
by Theidon, Kimberly S.; Laplante, Lisa J.
Truth commissions have become key mechanisms in transitional justice schemes in post conflict societies in order to assure transitions to peace, the rule of law, and respect for human rights....
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: February 2007 More
The Mask and the Mirror: Facing up to the Past in Postwar Peru
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
In this article Theidon draws upon research conducted with communities in Ayacucho, the region of Peru that bore the greatest loss of life during the internal armed conflict of the 1980-1990s. The...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: 2006 More
Practicing Peace, Living with War: Going Upriver in Colombia
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
It is disconcerting to share a hotel room with someone who needs to tell you in detail how he learned to use a machete to chop the human body up into unrecognizable chunks of flesh. Vladimiro's...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 2009 More
Terror's Talk: Fieldwork and War
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
My purpose in this essay is to raise some questions about what is involved in research on political violence. Since 1995 I have conducted ethnographic research in rural villages throughout Ayacucho,...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2001 More
Disarming the Subject: Remembering War and Imagining Citizenship in Peru
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
War and its aftermath serve as powerful motivators for the elaboration and transmission of individual, communal, and national histories. These histories both reflect and constitute human experience...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: April 2003 More
Justice in Transition: The Micropolitics of Reconciliation in Postwar Peru
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
This article draws on anthropological research conducted with communities in Ayacucho, the region of Peru that suffered the greatest loss of life during the internal armed conflict of the 1980s and...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: June 2006 More
Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women, and War
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
On August 28, 2003, the Commissioners of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (PTRC) submitted their Final Report to President Alejandro Toledo and the nation, thus joining the growing...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 2007 More
The Impact of Alternative Constitutional Regimes on Religious Freedom in Canada and England
by Liviatan, Ofrit
This article examines whether the global trend of codifying rights in entrenched bills accompanied by judicial review to broaden rights protection is justified. By comparing the religious freedom...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: Winter 2009 More
Transitional Subjects: The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of Former Combatants in Colombia
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
A key component of peace processes and postconflict reconstruction is the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants. DDR programs imply multiple transitions: from the...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2007 More
The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Development: Quantile Effects of Income and Education
by Alexander, Marcus; Harding, Matthew C.; Lamarche, Carlos
Does development lead to the establishment of more democratic institutions? The key to the puzzle, we argue, is the previously unrecognized fact that based on quantitative regime scores, countries...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 9, 2009 More
Seminar focuses on human rights
by Simon, Emily T.
Publisher: Harvard University Gazette
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
The undergraduates who gather around the seminar table at 61 Kirkland St. have a lot on their minds. Not just final papers, athletic matches, and music performances, but a range of issues that run...
Published Date: December 2008 More