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 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.


Nova regra de financiamento produzirá campanha eleitoral amarga nos EUA
by Keyssar, Alexander
Publisher: Folha de Sao Paulo
Publication Type: Op-ed
Depois que a primária republicana no Texas deu a Mitt Romney delegados suficientes para garantir formalmente a indicação de seu partido à Presidência, o presidente Obama telefonou ao rival para...
Published Date: June 2012 More
Voter Suppression Returns: Voting Rights and Partisan Practices
by Keyssar, Alexander
Publisher: Harvard Magazine
Publication Type: Op-ed
The 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the presidency—promises to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties, and their core constituents, believe that the stakes...
Published Date: July 2012 More
Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana
by Ichino, Nahomi
This article studies the effect of domestic observers deployed to reduce irregularities in voter registration in a new democracy, and in particular, the response of political parties’ agents to...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 2012 More
Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and Subjectivity in Java
by Good, Byron J.
This essay outlines the evolution of my personal thinking about phenomenology and subjectivity. In previous work, I drew heavily on cultural phenomenology for studying illness, subjective experience,...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2012 More
Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder: International Cooperation against Illicit Trade
by Efrat, Asif
From human trafficking to the smuggling of small arms to the looting of antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it so difficult to establish...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: June 2012 More

Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
In the aftermath of a civil war, former enemies are left living side by side—and often the enemy is a son-in-law, a godfather, an old schoolmate, or the community that lies just across the valley....
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: November 2012 More

Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity
by Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio
Culture counts has long been a rallying cry among health advocates and policymakers concerned with racial disparities in health care. A generation ago, the women s health movement led to a host of...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: November 2011 More

Senegal: What Will Turnover Bring?
by Kelly, Catherine
On 25 March 2012, Macky Sall of the Alliance for the Republic (APR) won the second round of Senegal’s presidential election with 65.8 percent of the vote, handily defeating incumbent president...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: July 2012 More
Did the June 23 Movement Change Senegal?
by Kelly, Catherine
Publisher: Possible Futures
Publication Type: Op-ed
During the Arab Spring, the key to toppling oppressive regimes was mass mobilization against leaders like Ben Ali and Mubarak, whose families controlled state resources and institutions. Mass...
Published Date: July 2012 More
Moral Hazard in an Economic Union: Politics, Economics, and Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe
by Alt, James; Dreyer Lassen, David; Wehner, Joachim
This paper examines empirically how transparency of the budget process affects fiscal rules and incentives for fiscal gimmickry or creative accounting in the European Union. Using stock-flow...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: July 2012 More
Power, Politics and Performance: A Partnership Approach for the Development
by Dookeran, Winston
The perception of politics as an obstacle to the advancement of the Caribbean must be removed. In Power, Politics and Performance, Winston Dookeran argues that for meaningful change, politics must be...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: April 2012 More

Europe Needs a German Marshall Plan
by Maier, Charles S.
Publisher: The New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
European leaders seemed to understand, at least until recently, that even a partial breakdown of the euro zone would have a devastating economic and political impact on departing countries and on...
Published Date: June 2012 More
Power, Personified
by Owen, E. Roger
Publisher: Harvard Gazette
Publication Type: Magazine Article
Long before the Arab republics in the Middle East and North Africa grabbed the world’s attention with inspiring democratic protests, they shared another curious political reality: leaders who,...
Published Date: May 2012 More
The Crisis of European Democracy
by Sen, Amartya
Publisher: The New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
If proof were needed of the maxim that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the economic crisis in Europe provides it. The worthy but narrow intentions of the European Union’s policy...
Published Date: May 2012 More
Greek Left Embarks On Coalition Talks But No End Seen In Political Deadlock
by Mylonas, Harris
Publisher: The Wall Street Journal
Publication Type: Op-ed
Greece continued to be gripped by political turmoil Tuesday amid diminishing hopes that leading political parties can form a coalition government after Sunday's splintered election result,...
Published Date: May 2012 More