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.


Honor in International Relations
by Joshi, Shashank
The concept of honor has an extensive and distinguished lineage in the study of international relations, although contemporary theory has lost sight of its importance. This study begins to remedy...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: December 2008 More
Assault on India’s fabled city of dreams
by Varshney, Ashutosh
Publisher: Financial Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
Terror has rocked India before but never have terrorists been so audacious. South Mumbai is India’s economic heart. This attack is "India’s 9/11". Mumbai is no routine urban agglomeration. It...
Published Date: November 2008 More
Why It Won’t Happen: The improbability of an Indian Obama
by Varshney, Ashutosh
Publisher: Times of India Delhi
Publication Type: Op-ed
On January 20, when Barack Obama is formally inaugurated as president, the US will have a tryst with destiny. As famously defined by Jawaharlal Nehru, a national tryst with destiny is “a...
Published Date: November 2008 More
Team 'Chimerica'
by Ferguson, Niall
Publisher: Washington Post
Publication Type: Op-ed
Future historians, I suspect, will look back on Saturday's anticlimactic G-20 gathering in Washington less as Bretton Woods 2.0 and more as a rerun of the London Economic Conference of 1933. Back...
Published Date: November 2008 More
Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican
by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Powell, Brenna M.
Between 1850 and 1930, demographic upheaval in the United States was connected to reorganization of the racial order. Socially and politically recognized boundaries between groups shifted, new...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: May 2008 More
Cover of The Declining Significance of Gender?The Declining Significance of Gender?
by Brinton, Mary C.; Blau, Francine D.; Grusky, David B.
In this book editors Francine Blau, Mary Brinton, and David Grusky bring together top gender scholars in sociology and economics to make sense of the recent changes in gender inequality, and to judge...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: May 2006 More

After Withdrawal, Engagement
by Erdmann, Andrew
Publisher: New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
Electing a Parliament under the new permanent Constitution was a significant achievement for the Iraqi people, who once again faced down terrorist violence and political intimidation to demonstrate...
Published Date: December 2005 More
Along With Trials, Iraq Needs Truth
by Philpott, Daniel
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
The trial of Saddam Hussein will likely result in his execution. Thus satisfied will be the Greek goddess of justice. Blind, with scales in her hand, she balances evil with justice, dollar for...
Published Date: December 2008 More
Beckert Tracks Cotton Trail: Uses its History to Study Globalization
by Powell, Alvin
Publisher: Harvard University Gazette
Publication Type: Magazine Article
Sven Beckert has been on a four-year international history hunt, tracking the trail of cotton through dusty archives from India to Argentina to see what it can tell him about one of globalization's...
Published Date: November 2005 More
Fruit that Falls Far from the Tree
by Kapur, Devesh
Publisher: Economist
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Might poor countries gain when their best and brightest leave? In the 2002 football World Cup, France, the reigning world champions, suffered a humiliating defeat to unfancied Senegal. All 11...
Published Date: November 2005 More
The World Watches as America Attempts its Restoration
by Walt, Stephen M.
Publisher: Financial Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
Americans normally shrug off newspaper headlines overseas, unconcerned by what the rest of the world thinks of us. But the events of recent months have turned a not-so-flattering mirror back upon...
Published Date: October 2005 More
Asia is in Danger of Repeating Europe's Mistakes
by Kaiser, Karl
Publisher: Financial Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
Just like Europe in the late 19th century, east Asia is experiencing a period of extraordinary industrialisation, economic growth and arms build-up. Warships have been deployed to mark positions on...
Published Date: October 2005 More
Koizumi's new party
by Estévez-Abe, Margarita
Publisher: International Herald Tribune
Publication Type: Op-ed
Another victory for Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party. What's new? This time a lot. Japanese politics has changed forever. This month's election was not just another victory for the LDP...
Published Date: September 2005 More
Beyond the Gaza Disengagement
by Kelman, Herbert C.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to disengage from the Gaza Strip by evacuating Israeli settlements there and withdrawing troops is scheduled to begin today. Advocates of a negotiated...
Published Date: August 2005 More
Think Again: Homeland Security
by Friedman, Benjamin M.
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Magazine Article
For the vast majority of Americans, the chances of dying in a terrorist attack are close to zero. There’s a higher probability that you’ll die by falling off a ladder than getting mixed up in...
Published Date: July 2005 More