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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.

Human Security: A Framework for Assessment in Conflict and Transition: by Leaning, Jennifer; Human security is a concept that dates back to the Enlightenment. Various strains of meaning, spanning a focus on individual rights and a preoccupation with territorial integrity of states, have...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2000 More

Reframing HIV and AIDS: by Leaning, Jennifer; (From BMJ, Volume 327, 8 November 2003) Over the past 20 years, the public health community has learnt a tremendous amount about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Yet,despite widespread discussion about the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2003 More

Better Together: Restoring the American Community: by Putnam, Robert D.; Research has begun to show how powerfully social capital, or its absence, affects the well being of individuals, organizations, and nations. Economics studies demonstrate that social capital makes...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: August 2004 More

What Can an Economic Adviser Do When He Disagrees with the President?: by Frankel, Jeffrey; Assuming he is confirmed by the Senate, Greg Mankiw, a leading Harvard economics professor, will soon be the new Chairman of President Bush?s Council of Economic Advisers. The president should be...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2003 More

The Role of Industrial Country Policies in Emerging Market Crises: by Frankel, Jeffrey; This paper considers policies of the industrialized countries, as they pertain to crises in emerging markets. These fall into three areas: (1) their own macroeconomic policies, which determine the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2001 More

You're Getting Warmer: The Most Feasible Path for Addressing Global Climate Change Does Run Through Kyoto: by Frankel, Jeffrey; When I first arrived at the White House in September 1996, I had no idea that one of the issues on which I would spend the most time during my period as a Member of President Clinton?s Council of...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2002 More

Promoting Better National Institutions: The Role of the IMF: by Frankel, Jeffrey; [Third Annual IMF Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 7?8, 2002.] What do we mean by institutions? The generality of the word cries out for a definition. I am not going to attempt it. A...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2002 More

Republican and Democratic Presidents Have Switched Economic Policies: by Frankel, Jeffrey; [This article expands on ideas in an op–ed that appeared in the Financial Times, September 13, 2002. The author would like to thank for useful comments Jack Frankel, Bill Gale, Jeff Liebman,...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 2003 More

Currency Blocs and Market Integration: Implications for Trade and Business Cycle Correlations: by Frankel, Jeffrey; Recent econometric estimates suggest that currency unions have far greater effects on trade patterns than previously believed. Since currency unions are good for trade, and trade is good for growth,...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2002 More

Experience of and Lessons from Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Economies: by Frankel, Jeffrey; This paper was written for Monetary and Financial Cooperation in East Asia, Macmillan Press, 2003, in consultation with the Regional Economic Monitoring Unit of the Asian Development Bank, and...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2003 More

Trade and Territorial Conflict: International Borders as Institutions: by Simmons, Beth A.; International borders are usefully conceptualized as international political institutions that provide joint gains for the polities whose jurisdictions they distinguish. Far from irrelevant in an...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: May 2002 More

Why Commit? Explaining State Acceptance of International Human Rights Obligations: by Simmons, Beth A.; This research note presents evidence on the conditions that influence governments? decisions to commit themselves to international human rights regimes. Are governments pressured by powerful state...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: May 2002 More

The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy: by Simmons, Beth A.; One of the most important developments over the past three decades has been the spread of liberal economic ideas and policies throughout the world. These policies have affected the lives of millions...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: February 2004 More

The State in a Changing World: A Critique of the 1997 World Development Report: by Kapur, Devesh; In recent years, the World Bank has been at the vanguard in pressing for a circumscribed role for the State in developing countries. It therefore comes as somewhat of a surprise that the 1997 World...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: January 1998 More

Why and How Did Mexico's 2000 Presidential Election Campaign Matter?: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; [in Jorge I. Domínguez and Chappell Lawson, eds., Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp....; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2004 More

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