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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y 2010–2011 ANNUAL REPORT 1737 Cambridge Street • Cambridge, MA 02138 www.wcfia.harvard.edu TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........................................ 3 ADMINISTRATION ...................................... 6 Advisory Committee ............................................................................... 6 Executive Committee ............................................................................... 6 Senior Advisers ........................................................................................7 Steering Committee ..................................................................................7 Administration .........................................................................................7 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ............................... 9 Small Grants for Faculty Research Projects and Author’s Workshops ........ 9 Medium Research Grants for Faculty ........................................................ 9 Large Research Grants for Faculty ............................................................ 9 Research Incubation Fund ........................................................................ 9 Weatherhead Initiative in International Affairs ....................................... 10 CONFERENCES AND SPECIAL EVENTS .......11 Understanding African Poverty in the Longue Durée ................................11 Fifth Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society (IPES) ............................................................. 13 After ‘Londonistan’: European Muslim Politics Today .............................. 16 Honor the Mick ....................................................................................... 16 PIEP: Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference .................... 17 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ........................... 17 We are Egypt .......................................................................................... 17 Inside The Egyptian Revolution: Meet an Egyptian Eyewitness ................ 17 The Mediterranean, Criss-Crossed and Constructed ................................. 18 WCFIA Fellows Symposium: Does Democracy Matter? A Nexus of Practice and Academia ..................20 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Conference in Talloires, France ................................................................20 Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture on American Foreign Policy ..............22 RESEARCH SEMINARS ................................23 Open Seminars.............................................................................23 Africa Research Seminar .........................................................................23 Canada Program Seminar........................................................................23 Challenges of the Twenty-first Century ...................................................23 Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies .......23 Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives .......................................25 Economic Growth and Development Workshop........................................25 Economic History Workshop ....................................................................27 Harvard Business School International Seminar ......................................28 Harvard International and Global History Seminar ..................................29 Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution ........................................30 International Economics Workshop ......................................................... 31 Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics .....................................................32 Middle East Seminar ...............................................................................34 Nigeria in the World ...............................................................................35 Political Violence Workshop ....................................................................35 Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar ..............................................36 Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics Seminar ...............................36 Religion and Politics Seminar: Local and Global ......................................36 Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard .............38 Study Group on the Future of the European Union .................................39 Transatlantic Relations Seminar ..............................................................39 Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics ...........................................39 Turkey in the Modern World .................................................................... 41 WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2010–2011 1 WCFIA Roundtable on World Affairs ........................................................42 Closed Seminars ...........................................................................42 Communist and Post-Communist Countries Seminar ...............................42 Director’s Faculty Seminar ......................................................................43 Faculty Discussion Group on Comparative Politics ...................................43 Faculty Discussion Group on Political Economy .......................................43 Friday Lunch Seminar for Fellows and WCFIA Visiting Scholars ...............46 Future of War Seminar ............................................................................46 Latin American Politics Graduate Workshop ............................................46 Research Workshop in Comparative Politics ............................................47 Research Workshop in International Relations: New Approaches to Security Studies .......................................................50 Research Workshop in Political Economy ................................................ 51 Workshop on the Sustainability of the World’s Food and Farming Systems ........................................................55 RESEARCH PROGRAMS ..............................56 Canada Program .....................................................................................56 Center for History and Economics (CHE) ..................................................58 Fellows Program ..................................................................................... 61 Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies ..............................66 National Security Studies PRogram (NSSP) .............................................74 Program on Transatlantic Relations ........................................................75 Program on U.S.-Japan Relations ............................................................79 Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics (JWE) ...................................84 Student Programs ...................................................................................87 INTRODUCTION The Weatherhead Center engaged in a very full program of research, sponsored seminars, and new initiatives in 2010–2011. In the fall we welcomed over a dozen new Faculty Associates, sixteen new Fellows, and six visiting scholars into our midst. Twenty-five graduate students made up our Graduate Student Associates program. After a summer of field research sponsored by the WCFIA, we welcomed back sixteen undergraduate senior thesis writers as part of our scholarly community. In 2010–2011 the WCFIA hosted a number of exciting events. Two special public lectures took place in the fall: the Paul-Henri Spaak Lecture was presented in September by Baroness Catherine Ashton, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy; and the Manshel Lecture on American Foreign Policy was presented in October by Seymour Hersh, journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. For the first time, the Weatherhead Center hosted, in November, the annual conference of the International Political Economy Society, during which faculty and advanced graduate students from around the country presented papers on topics ranging from the workings of international economic organizations to climate change and economic growth. The Center also experimented with international teleconferencing with a series of six seminars emanating from Harvard for politicians, scholars, journalists, and business people in Sri Lanka on issues of reconciliation, reconstruction, and development—an experiment made possible by our Executive Director Steve Bloomfield’s visit to that country in the summer of 2010. Of course, our central mission is to support research on international, transnational, and comparative social phenomena, and so we enthusiastically supported an array of interesting faculty research projects this past academic year. Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, launched an incubation project called “ChinaMap: A Framework for the Spatial Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Society” aiming to provide researchers with the means to map datasets on the web, combine different spatial layers, choose data for statistical analysis, and store and make their research accessible to other scholars. Another incubation grant designed to attract further outside support was initiated by Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, on “Lowest-Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies: Family Norms, Gender-Role Norms, and Economic Context,” an effort to build a theoretical framework positing
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