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Annual Report 01-02.QXD TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 4 Faculty Grants for Individual Research 4 Other Faculty Support and Faculty Nominations 4 Faculty Research Leaves 5 Conferences 5 Weatherhead Initiative in International Affairs 5 LIBRARY 6 WEB DEVELOPMENT 6 FINANCES 6 RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND SEMINARS 9 Africa 9 Canada and U.S.–Canada Relations 9 Communist and Postcommunist Countries 10 Comparative Politics 11 Director’s Seminar 13 Ethics and International Affairs 13 Europe 14 Fellows Program 15 Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies 18 International Economics 26 John H. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies 46 Justice 30 Middle East 36 Political Development 39 Political Economy 40 Political Violence 43 Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution 25 Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival 36 Program on U.S.–Japan Relations 28 Redefining Boundaries of Belonging 44 South Asia 45 Student Programs 50 Transnational Security 57 U.S. Foreign Policy 58 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 59 PUBLICATIONS 79 ADMINISTRATION 92 Visiting Committee 92 Executive Committee 92 Staff 93 CONTENTS 2001/2002 1 WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 2001–2002 THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS WAS FOUNDED IN 1958.In the spring of 1998 it was renamed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in gratitude for the magnificent endowment established by Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The Center is the largest international research center in the social sciences within Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The core interests of the Weatherhead Center are broadly defined to encompass research on international, transnational, and comparative topics (both contemporary and historical) and include rigorous policy analysis as well as the study of specific countries and regions besides the United States. The Center is structured to encourage the highest practical level of personal and intellectual interaction among a diverse community of scholars and practitioners. It is distinctive in its recognition that knowledge is a product not only of individual academic research, but also of vigorous, sustained intellectual dialogue among scholars and nonacademic experts. To stimulate this dialogue, the Center sponsors an array of seminars, research programs, workshops, and conferences. These activities encourage interaction among resident affiliates and involve a wide variety of scholars, government and military officials, corporate executives, and practitioners from around the world. The Center houses over a dozen professors, several- dozen graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, nearly two-dozen Fellows, and many visiting scholars, associate, and staff. The Weatherhead Center is composed of diverse research communities, including faculty from all ranks, graduate and undergraduate students principally at the dissertation or senior thesis stages, visiting scholars, and nonacademic Fellows. The faculty and students come from all the social science departments, and nearly all schools of the University. It is part of the Center’s mission to support and connect work conducted throughout the University on the affairs of other countries and cultures. Faculty research defines the fundamental activities of the Center and orients its priorities. The specific research activities and programs of the Center respond to faculty initiative, and they change as faculty and research priorities shift. The Center, therefore, is structured to maximize a capacity for responding, flexibly and swiftly, to scholarly initiative. The Weatherhead Center supports the research, houses, and helps finance the work of graduate students from various schools of the University. The Center awards many grants to undergraduates for conducting field research in various countries for senior theses. The results of Center research are made available to the public policy community through books, working papers, articles, reports, seminars and lectures, and through the personal participation of Center members in policy planning and decision-making in governments and institutions outside the University. A faculty director who is assisted by an executive director heads the Center. An executive committee, primarily composed of senior Harvard faculty involved in Center-sponsored programs, provides guidance on matters of substance and policy. Professor Jorge I. Domínguez, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, is the Center director. James A. Cooney is the executive director. Academic year 2001–02 was the Center’s last at Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. On June 12, 2002, the Center’s doors re-opened at its new home, 1033 Massachusetts Avenue, on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We expect to move yet again, during the latter part of academic year 2004–05, to new facilities to be built approximately on the site of Coolidge Hall. ANNUAL REPORT 2001/2002 3 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Other Faculty Support And Faculty Nominations Faculty Grants for Individual The Weatherhead Center also offers faculty Research associates support for a variety of research- The Center annually awards a limited number related purposes. Small grants of up to $1,500 of grants, up to $5,000, to individual scholars per academic year are awarded to faculty to pursue research on important international associates to fund, for example, research and comparative topics. The Center supports assistance or indexing. Dissemination of basic research that deepens an understanding research is facilitated by inviting junior faculty of the forces, both domestic and international, to request, once per semester, that the Center that is transforming many countries as well as circulate copies of their published or the international system. Proposals may unpublished work, with a cover letter, to up to include requests for travel, research assistance, ten scholars in their field. The Center also and other project-related expenses. They may offers staff support for resident faculty also include authors’ workshops for recently associates through a program that subsidizes published books. The subcommittee of the the services of administrative staff. Center’s Executive Committee reviews all these Applications for small grants and proposals. There are three deadlines during the dissemination of research are accepted academic year for these grants. throughout the academic year. Requests for Twelve faculty members received the following staff support must be submitted before the grants for 2001–02: beginning of each semester. Encouraging them Health and Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: An to nominate visiting scholars, students and Interdisciplinary Workshop Fellows to the Center also supports the work of –Emmanuel Akyeampong faculty associates. Through these nominations, the faculty is able to bring to the Center those Research on Religion, Economics, and Political with whom they wish also enriching the Institutions intellectual life of the Center. Deadlines for –Robert Barro nominations vary according to the Systems Theory of World Politics appointment or award. –Lars-Erik Cederman Conferences State Appraisal: Transformations in Statistical The following conferences were sponsored or Institutions and the Russia State co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center –Yoshiko M. Herrera during 2001–02: Diasporas and Development A Demographic Study of the Partition of –Devesh Kapur India: Is it Feasible? Odious debt policies, refugee policy, and –Jennifer Leaning military outsourcing Conference on the Measurement of Identity in –Michael Kremer the Social Sciences Words and Deeds: Mistrust and Reassurance in –Alastair Iain Johnston International Relations, Research Assistance Conference on Military Conflict and Public –Andrew Kydd Health International Organization –Lisa Martin –Lisa Martin The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy “Race” and the Transnational Genesis of –Steven Walt, Jorge Domínguez, and Jim “Blackness” Cooney –James Lorand Matory Informal Institutions and Politics in the Origins and Evolution for worker patrols in Developing World China –Steven Levitsky –Elizabeth Perry Mobilizing Science and Technology for The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Sustainable Development: Challenges for Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory International Institutions –Monica Duffy Toft –William Clark In America’s Shadow: Global Responses to U.S. Research Group on Political Institutions and Preponderance Economic Policy (PIEP) –Stephen M. Walt –Jeffry Frieden and Ken Shepsle Social Movements in the South: Brazil, “diasporas” are a form of international social India and South Africa in capital. Comparative Perspective Ken Shepsle, faculty associate and Markham –Sanjeev Khagram Professor of Government, received a one- Transatlantic Perspectives on the U.S.–EU semester Faculty Research Fellowship for the Economic Relations: Convergence, Conflict academic year 2001–02 to complete a project and Cooperation that seeks to incorporate demographic –Robert Z. Lawrence thinking into political-economic modeling by linking theory and the events of the empirical Faculty Research Leaves world. Theoretically, Shepsle aims to build Stanley Hoffmann, faculty associate and Paul interest in “demographic dynamics” and create and Catherine Buttenwieser University a formal structure that accommodates a range Professor, received a one-semester Faculty of intertemporal phenomena that often are Research Fellowship for the academic year treated separately when, in fact,
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