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.


Institutions over Norms: Reevaluating the Literature on the Democratic Peace
by Dassel, Kurt
In reviewing the last 15 years of political science literature on this subject, I argue that scholars have correctly identified the central theoretical debate, for the contest between the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1998 More
Should Capital Controls Be Banished?
by Cooper, Richard N.
Unless certain conditions are met, serious misallocation could occur if capital movements are fully liberalized; and considerable vulnerability is created for economies where the exchange rate is...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 1999 More
Key Currencies After the Euro
by Cooper, Richard N.
This paper will address various issues. It first takes up the reasons why national currencies might be used internationally, and provides some data on the international role of currencies today, and...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: November 1997 More
International Approaches to Global Climate Change
by Cooper, Richard N.
This paper surveys the issues involved in cooperation among nations to slow down the climate change which many believe the extensive consumption of fossil fuels and other aspects of modern life are...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1999 More
Currency Convertibility in Transforming Economies: Was It a Mistake?
by Cooper, Richard N.
A rapid move to currency convertibility by the transforming countries of eastern Europe does not seem to have hurt those countries that undertook it compared to those that moved more gradually....
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: December 1996 More
A Treaty on Global Climate Change: Problems and Prospects
by Cooper, Richard N.
International treaties in pursuit of common endeavors can be classified into two categories: those that set mutually agreed national objectives and leave each signatory to pursue them in their own...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: December 2006 More
Technological Revolutions
by Caselli, Francesco
I present a simple model of technological revolutions. A technological revolution is the introduction of a new generation of machines that can only be operated by workers who have learned a set of...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 1999 More
International Capital Mobility and Monetary Politics in the U.S. Congress, 1960-1997
by Broz, J. Lawrence
Prevailing approaches to the politics of monetary policy in the United States are based on closed economy assumptions, which is appropriate for analyzing the period before about 1980. However, the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: October 1998 More
International Relations À La Carte: A New Swiss Neutrality in Europe
by Brackett, David S.
Conventional wisdom brings into question the utility of a foreign policy of neutrality in the post–Cold War era. Yet, while neutrality is clearly evolving, the European neutrals continue to...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 1997 More
Making Social Capital Work: A Review of Robert Putnam's 'Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy'
by Boix, Carles; Posner, Daniel N.
Since the publication of Robert Putnam's "Making Democracy Work," the concept of social capital has achieved a new prominence in the social science community. This essay explores the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1996 More
Long Run Political Convergence? A State-by-State Analysis
by Blomberg, Brock S.
This paper constructs and examines state level political ideology from 1789 to 1996 to sort out the long run political trends of the United States. The purpose is twofold: First, to contrast a...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 1998 More
Political Institutions, Ethnic Elites and the Civic Engagement of Immigrants: A Comparison of Canada and the United States
by Irene Bloemraad
In this paper I argue that there is a significant isomorphism between a host country?s political system and newcomers? participation. During the "first wave" of mass migration to North...
Publication Type: Conference Paper
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Key Issues in Congressional Foreign Policy Making
by Bereuter, Doug
I have been asked to speak today about the role of Congress in the formulation of foreign policy. This certainly is a broad mandate, but I will do my best to address the issue. Let me say at the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: March 1999 More
Conflict in Time and Space
by Tucker, Richard
Scholars in international relations (IR) are increasingly using time-series cross-section data to analyze models with a binary dependent variable (BTSCS models). IR scholars generally employ a...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: November 1997 More
Ethnicity, Capital Formation, and Conflict
by Bates, Robert H.
Ethnicity plays an ambiguous role in the great transformation. On the one hand, ethnicity creates: by providing incentives that organize the flow of resources across generations, it provides the...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: October 1999 More