Centerpiece: Spring 2013

The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Student Associates for the 2013–2014 academic year and have received grants to support travel in connection with their senior thesis research on international affairs. Ainara Arcelus (Applied...

The Canada Program has concluded another successful year with the support of the William Lyon Mackenzie King Endowment. The program hosted two annual visiting professorships with accomplished scholars engaged in comparative teaching and research on Canada...

Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe By Sherrill Stroschein In societies divided on ethnic and religious lines, problems of democracy are magnified—particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. With the principle of...

Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate Receives Gold Medal of Honor Herbert C. Kelman, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, received the Gold Medal of Honor from the Federal Capital of Vienna, “in recognition of his significant...

Beth A. Simmons The past seven years have been extraordinarily positive ones for me and for the intellectual life of the Center. I assumed the directorship one year after moving into the glorious Knafel Building at 1737 Cambridge Street. The new...

by Janet I. Lewis International donors have heavily invested in decentralization programs in developing countries, to the tune of over 7.4 billion dollars since 1990. 1 They did so amidst a global shift in the 1980s and 1990s away from centralized...

Interview by Kristin Caulfield & Megan Countey Dara Kay Cohen has always been interested in studying violence, but she explored several different directions before she found her current path. Initially, Cohen considered becoming a lawyer working within...

The spring 2013 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including the Undergraduate Thesis Conference and the Fellows reunion. The feature, “ Local Governance and the Recentralization of Political Power in African States” by Janet...