Centerpiece: Fall 2014

2014–2015 Kenneth I. Juster Fellows The Weatherhead Center is pleased to announce its 2014-2015 class of Juster Fellows. Now in its fourth year, this grant initiative is made possible by the generosity of the Center’s Advisory Committee Chair, the...

The Weatherhead Center community and Fellows Program mourn the recent loss of three former Fellows: Paul Stewart Dingledine passed away on June 12, 2014, at his home in Ottawa. A Fellow at the Center for International Affairs in 1993–1994, Paul came to...

Behind the Cartoonist’s Drawing Board By Shreyas Navare The cartoonist’s daily hunt for an idea is not unlike a cat and mouse game. It boasts of the same elements—nervous excitement, sharp focus, loads of patience, ridiculous scramble, and maddening...

Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective Edited by Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James A. Robinson, and Emmanuel Akyeampong This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa’s persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée...

Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates Honored with Imperial Decoration by the Japanese Government Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates and Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Faculty Advisory Committee Members Andrew Gordon and Joseph Nye were honored with...

Sixteen Harvard College students received summer 2014 travel grants from the Weatherhead Center to support their thesis research on topics related to international affairs. Since their return in August, the Weatherhead Center has encouraged these...

By Ashley Anderson The completion of Tunisia’s second democratic election on October 26, 2014, marked a watershed moment in the history of Middle Eastern politics. Amidst a litany of Arab Spring “failures”—resulting in state collapse in Libya, civil war...

From its earliest days, the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) included Fellows, practitioners of international affairs, near the core of its community. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean McGeorge Bundy stated in a 1962 report on the Center...

The fall 2014 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including a profile on Fellow and cartoonist Shreyas Navare, tributes to three former Fellows who have recently passed away, and a student program update. The feature, “ The...