Centerpiece: Spring 2018

Gene Sharp, 1928–2018 Gene Sharp, former CFIA Associate and scholar of nonviolent political resistance, dies at 90 The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently mourned the loss of Gene Sharp, a political scientist and former associate of the...

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2017–2018 academic year: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and African and African...

2018 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners The Weatherhead Center congratulates the following Undergraduate Associates who were awarded 2018 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes on the basis of their outstanding scholarly work. Benjamin David Grimm, “Being Muslim...

Nearly two years ago, the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) opened a second location at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the first of which started at Stanford University thirty years ago. The SCANCOR...

On April 20, 2018, Harvard hosted a retirement symposium for Professor Robert D. Putnam. The event featured five panels that focused on the most important work of Putnam’s career—his “Two-Level Games” essay, and the books Making Democracy Work, Bowling...

How Democracies Die By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty...

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture by Michael Ignatieff and Craig Calhoun | March 21, 2018 "Academic Freedom and Authoritarian Populism: Lessons from the Front Line" Delivered by Michael Ignatieff, president of Central European University In the...

Interview by Michelle Nicholasen Assistant Professor of Government Joshua D. Kertzer studies what might be called the gray matter of international security—what lies behind the decisions of leaders, and the foreign policy attitudes of the public. His work...

As we close out another semester, I would like to share a few of our accomplishments from the past few months. Our executive committee just approved the creation of two new Weatherhead Research Clusters: Religion in Public Life in Africa will be co...

The spring 2018 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including updates on student programs and the SCANCOR-Weatherhead Partnership. In the Message from the Director, Michèle Lamont outlines some of the semester's highlights...