Annual Report 2011 | 2012

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Introduction...... 3 Administration...... 7 Advisory Committee ...... 7 Executive Committee & Senior Advisers...... 7 Steering Committee...... 8 Administration...... 9 Research Activities...... 11 Opportunities for Faculty...... 11 Small Grants for Faculty Research Projects and Author’s Workshops...... 11 Medium Research Grants for Faculty...... 12 Research Incubation Fund...... 12 Conferences & Special Events...... 13 Seminars...... 21 Open Seminars...... 21 Africa Research Seminar...... 21 Canada Seminar...... 21 Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: European and American Perspectives...... 21 Conversations across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies...... 21 Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...... 23 Economic Development Workshop...... 23 Economic History Workshop...... 25 Ethics, Economics, and International Relations...... 27 Harvard Business School International Seminar...... 27 Harvard International and Global History Seminar...... 28 Harvard Seminar on History and Policy...... 30 Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution...... 30 International Economics Workshop...... 31 Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics...... 33 Middle East Seminar...... 34 Nigeria in the World...... 36 Political Violence Workshop...... 36 Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar...... 37 Religion and Politics Seminar: Local and Global...... 37 Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard...... 39 Study Group on the Future of the European Union...... 41 Transatlantic Relations Seminar...... 41 Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics...... 41 Turkey in the Modern World...... 43 WCFIA Roundtable on World Affairs...... 44 Weatherhead Initiative on Global History...... 44 Workshop on Culture, History, and Society...... 45 Invitation Only...... 46 Communist and Post-Communist Countries Seminar...... 46 Director’s Faculty Seminar...... 47

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 1 Faculty Discussion Group on Comparative Politics...... 47 Faculty Discussion Group on Political Economy...... 48 Graduate Workshop on Latin American Politics...... 51 International Law and International Relations Seminar...... 52 Program on Global Society and Security Seminar...... 53 Research Workshop in Comparative Politics...... 53 Research Workshop in International Relations...... 57 Research Workshop in Political Economy...... 59 Workshop on the Sustainability of the World’s Food and Farming Systems...... 62 Special Seminars...... 63 Research Programs...... 67 Canada Program...... 67 Center for History and Economics...... 70 Fellows Program...... 74 Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies...... 78 Program on Global Society and Security...... 89 Program on Transatlantic Relations...... 90 Program on U.S.-Japan Relations...... 95 Student Programs...... 102 Introduction

Albert J. Weatherhead III, 1925–2011. Photo credit: Martha Stewart

esearch is the lifeblood of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In 2011–2012, as in every recent year, free inquiry within the realms of international, transnational, global, and Rcomparative themes, mostly in the disciplines of anthropology, economics, government, history, and sociology—but touching upon and being informed by the work of all of Harvard’s professional schools—animated everything we did. Constructed upon the assumption that scholars young and old, from a wide variety of disciplines, must work together to discover complex truths, this institution, both well endowed and well run, once again provided the necessary glue through conscious acts of consistent engagement.

After a spirited orientation and the passage of the first few weeks of the fall term, our academic year took on a suddenly sad turn when news reached us on September 20 of the death of Albert J. Weatherhead III, 1925–2011, the Center’s greatest benefactor and friend. Al came to the support of the Center at a particularly difficult financial time, giving international research a much needed boost through his extraordinary generosity. In April 1998, through the Weatherhead Foundation and with the strong support of his wife, Celia, the Foundation’s vice president, he endowed the Center and put international relations research on a firm financial footing at Harvard. Beyond the founding gift, Al and Celia made additional significant endowment grants through the Weatherhead Foundation to the Weatherhead Center in May 2003 and February 2004.

Al was interested in supporting people with cutting-edge ideas who would have an impact on the world. His generosity was matched by his belief, as Jorge Domínguez put it, “that the world was improvable, and that bright, hard-working individuals were the right vehicle to advance this vision.” We Weatherhead Center scholars, staff, and innumerable annual visitors realized all the more this year our indebtedness to Al Weatherhead, the man—and to his vision.

In all, the Center sponsored thirty-eight seminar series in 2011–2012—the most in recent memory and, very likely, the most ever. One might think that such an expansion in times of recession was at the very least surprising or, perhaps, unwise. We were, however, mindful to pick up slack that existed in other places around the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, doing our best to provide resources where they dried up elsewhere, and fanning initiatives that we thought would stimulate

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 3 thinking and promote further intellectual growth. To this end, Orlando Patterson’s Workshop on Culture, History, and Society joined a wide array of offerings of very long-standing as well as these still relatively new seminars: Religion and Politics; Turkey in the Modern World; Nigeria in the World; Sustainability of the World’s Food and Farming Systems. Needless to say, there was no lack of traffic in our halls during the typical weekday afternoon.

Further to the theme of expansiveness, we awarded twenty-nine grants to Harvard graduate students to support their pre- and mid-dissertation research, along with grants for language study, for a cumulative amount of $96,054. This was in addition to our awarding of 5½ dissertation-completion grants, each valuing some $29,000. The reasons for this largesse? With Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences still in deficit, we met the challenge not only to cover FAS financial obligations but also to volunteer additional funds to students whose research-funding needs, though not technically entitled, were no less real or compelling. How, after all, could one complete an outstanding dissertation without beforehand finding the wherewithal to spend significant time in the field or in language study?

Perhaps most dramatically expansive in 2011–2012 were two funding initiatives provided to collaborative groups of faculty. A Weatherhead Initiative grant, along the lines of funding that we have traditionally maintained for over ten years, began in July 2011, led by a research team comprised of principal investigators Professors Michael B. McElroy of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dale W. Jorgenson of the Department of Economics; Harvard-based researchers Chris P. Nielsen, Mun S. Ho, and Zhao Yu; and Tsinghua University–based and Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning–based colleagues. Their project, “The Costs and Benefits of Carbon and Air Pollution Control in China: An Interdisciplinary and Analytical Framework,” began to investigate the effects of two kinds of emission control policies—carbon taxes and anticipated technology mandates for control of nitrogen oxides—with the ultimate goal of influencing Chinese public-policy decisions on this very serious and growing problem. Astride that project began the first Weatherhead Initiative “Research Cluster.” Toward an exploration of “Global History,” historians Sven Beckert and Charles Maier started a multi-year project to mobilize scholars from around the world, providing funding for graduate students, undergraduates, and post-doctoral researchers, strengthening teaching on global history, and cooperating with sister institutions on other continents to ignite, in Sven Beckert’s words, “the search to understand how human societies have developed as an interactive community across the world...examining processes, networks, identities and events that cross the boundaries of modern nation states.” We were excited about the establishment of this new model for scholarly interaction and look forward to developing more “clusters” in the future.

In 2011–2012 we started with an unprecedented 174 Faculty Associates and quickly added a half dozen more, a majority of whom hail from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but a growing number whose primary appointments reside in Harvard’s professional schools. These faculty participated in the life of the Center by initiating and chairing our public and private events, serving on our various selection committees, and, most importantly, seeking the grants available to them from the Center to advance their research agendas.

We were particularly pleased to include in our scholarly community in 2011–2012 the inaugural group of five Prize Fellows in Economics, History, and Politics. This new initiative, led by Emma Rothschild, encourages outstanding scholarship from across the disciplines that is animated by a desire to understand economic change. The fellowship is closely associated with the Joint Center for History and Economics, based at Harvard and at Magdalene College and King’s College, University

4 Introduction of Cambridge. We were very proud to have the opportunity to work with and learn from these extraordinary young scholars.

The Center was also pleased to greet a few visiting faculty members for the year. James R. Dunn was our 2011–2012 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. His appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health enabled him to lead our Canada Program and to teach one course each semester. An associate professor in the Department of Health, Aging, and Society at McMaster University, Jim expressed his interest, broadly, in public health as it relates to societal inequalities, particularly in the realm of housing and neighborhood settlement patterns. Joining him in the Canada Program was Daniyal Zuberi, our Mackenzie King Visiting Research Fellow, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia working on matters of urban poverty and social welfare. Finally, our Program on Transatlantic Relations and its director, Karl Kaiser, managed to entice long-time friend Jacques Mistral, professor of economics and head of economic studies at the French Institute of International Relations and a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique, to join us as our spring-term Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

We were pleased to welcome Erez Manela to lead our Program on Global Society and Security (PGSS), the newest iteration of what for many years was the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and in recent years operated as the National Security Studies Program (under the constant leadership of Stephen Peter Rosen). Seven graduate fellows gathered in a frequently meeting seminar that will be a springboard for future program developments on a theme of crucial importance, security, both within the Center’s long heritage and, of course, for the world.

Also, we were pleased to have co-sponsored, with the Harvard Divinity School, Nigeria’s Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Saád Abubakar, to deliver a Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture “for the promotion of tolerance, understanding and good will among nations, and the peace of the world.”

Finally, we focused our attention to the dissemination of our research to a world interested to know about international affairs, and especially what Harvard researchers might have to say about various aspects thereof. Several years ago, on the doorstep of the financial crisis that hit the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (and as result, the Center itself), we were forced to eliminate hard copies of our Working Paper Series, and thus redoubled our efforts to harvest the work of our affiliates and put it on display on our website where by year’s end we had posted over 2000 books, working papers, journal articles, and news articles. The Center’s website attracted over 48,000 unique visitors and 137,000 page views by people from all over the world during this academic year alone. We also decided to harness social media to our advantage, coming of age with a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WCFIA and putting more resources into video recording Center events—available on our Vimeo channel at http:// vimeo.com/wcfia.

I am pleased to offer this Annual Report as a record of a most productive year.

Beth A. Simmons Center Director

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Administration

Advisory Committee Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. The Advisory Committee periodically reviews the work of the Center and its programs, assesses the Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor in Center’s performance, expresses its judgment, International Relations, Faculty Chair, South East and makes recommendations regarding the European Studies, St Antony’s College, University Center’s strategic direction. It may also review, of Oxford. assess, and make recommendations regarding specific Center programs. Sir Michael Palliser, (1922–2012), Vice-Chairman of the Board, Salzburg Seminar. The Honorable Kenneth I. Juster (chair), Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. Dr. Carol Richards, Philanthropic Advisor.

Mr. Frank Boas, Attorney. Mr. Hartley R. Rogers, Managing Director, Aries Advisors, LLC. Hon. Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Dr. Adele S. Simmons, Vice Chair and Senior Executive, Metropolis Strategies. Dr. Diego Hidalgo, President, Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior Mr. Albert J. Weatherhead, (1925–2011), (FRIDE). The Weatherhead Foundation.

Dr. Pierre B. A. Keller, Former Senior Partner, Mrs. Celia J. Weatherhead, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie. The Weatherhead Foundation.

Professor Byung-Kook Kim, Professor of Political Science, Korea University. Executive Committee & Senior Advisers Dr. Ira Kukin, Chair of the Board, Apollo The Executive Committee—including Senior Technologies International, Corp. Advisers—is made up of Harvard faculty and provides overall policy guidance to the Professor Helen V. Milner, B.C. Forbes Professor Weatherhead Center and is a forum for scholarly of Politics and International Affairs, Founding exchange among its members. Senior Advisers are Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 7 ex-officio members of the Executive Committee Kathleen Molony, Director, Fellows Program. because of their long-time commitment to the governance of the Center. Susan J. Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Executive Committee Japanese Politics, Department of Government.

David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of Steffen Rimner, Research Fellow, Canada History, Department of History. Program, Graduate Student Associate, PhD Candidate, Department of History. Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Professor of Public Policy, Joan Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Department of Government.

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Department of History. Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Director of Undergraduate Student Programs, Postdoctoral Fellow, Senior Advisers Department of Anthropology. Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard Academy Steven B. Bloomfield, Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies, Antonio Executive Director. Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Department of Government, Vice Provost for Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of International Affairs. Sociology, Department of Sociology. Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of European Studies, Department of Government. International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development, Harvard Kennedy School. J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Caroline Elkins, Professor of History, Department Life, Harvard Kennedy School, Secretary for Health of History, Professor of African and African and Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston. American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies. Stanley H. Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Department Baber Johansen, Director, Center for Middle of Government. Eastern Studies, Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School. Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Department of History. Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology, Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Department of Sociology, Professor of African Professor of Public Policy, Department and African American Studies, Department of of Government. African and African American Studies.

Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Steering Committee Department of Government. The Steering Committee is comprised of Faculty Associates of the Center who convene Erez Manela, Director, Graduate Student Programs, periodically during the academic year to consider Director, Program on Global Society and Security, applications for faculty research funding. Professor of History, Department of History.

8 Administration Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Jaronica Fuller, Assistant to Professor Department of History. Robert H. Bates.

William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of Emily Gauthier, Administrator, Center for History International Science, Public Policy, and Human and Economics. Development, Harvard Kennedy School. Sophia Holtz, Assistant to Professor Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor Herbert C. Kelman. of European Studies, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Professor of African Kathleen Hoover, Executive Assistant to Professor and African American Studies, Department of Jorge I. Domínguez, Program Coordinator, African and African American Studies. Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Department of Government. Marina Ivanova, Event Planning Assistant, Staff Assistant to Professors Richard N. Cooper and Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, Jeffry A. Frieden. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government. Karl Kaiser, Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Administration Nirvana Abou-Gabal, Program Coordinator, Patrick McVay, Director of Finance. Fellows Program. Kathleen Molony, Director, Fellows Program. Jessica Barnard, Project Officer, Project on Thomas C. Murphy, Front Office Manager, Justice, Welfare, and Economics, Coordinator, Coordinator of Housing Services. Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics. William Nehring, Program Coordinator, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Steven B. Bloomfield, Weatherhead Center Executive Director. Clare Putnam, Program Coordinator, Student Programs and Fellowships. Katherine Brady, Assistant to the Executive Director. Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director.

Kristin Caulfield, Manager of Communications. Charles Smith, Financial Administrator.

Helen Clayton, Administrator, Canada Program. Xiao Tian, Staff Assistant, Program on U.S.- Japan Relations. Megan Countey, Publications Assistant, Event Planner. Ann Townes, Program Coordinator, Program on Global Society and Security, Assistant Caitlin Cronin, Research Assistant, Program on to Professors Iain Johnston, Karl Kaiser, and U.S.-Japan Relations. Stephen Peter Rosen, Undergraduate Research Ashley DiSilvestro, Executive Assistant to Program Assistant. the Director. Monet Uva, Staff Assistant. Michelle L. Eureka, Administrative Officer. Laurence H. Winnie, Executive Officer, Harvard Shinju Fujihira, Executive Director, Program on Academy for International and Area Studies. U.S.-Japan Relations.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 9 Research Activities Research Activities

Opportunities for Faculty understanding of the forces, both domestic and international, that are transforming many The Center has a longstanding commitment countries as well as the international system. Our to support analytical research, principally goal is to foster a vibrant research community in the social sciences in the Faculty of Arts of Weatherhead Center–affiliated faculty across and Sciences and in related disciplines in the the University. University’s professional schools. This research focuses on international, transnational, global, and The following is a list of the faculty research comparative issues. Eligible projects may address projects selected in academic year 2011–2012 to contemporary or historical topics, including receive Center funding: rigorous policy analysis.

Among our successful initiatives of recent years are: Small Grants for Faculty Research Projects and • an opportunity for every junior Faculty Author’s Workshops Associate to hold a book conference on a soon- Each year the Weatherhead Center awards a limited to-be-published manuscript; number of grants for faculty research projects of • the Research Incubation Fund, which supports up to $10,000 and for author’s workshops of up to faculty in their preparation of major research $5,000. This research must focus on international, proposals for outside funding agencies transnational, global, or comparative national issues or foundations; and may address contemporary or historical topics. • an emphasis on utilizing media conferencing to It must include rigorous policy analysis as well as lower financial cost; and the study of countries and regions outside the • a globalization supplement to encourage and United States. Listed below are the recipients and enable scholars from outside of North America their research areas. to participate in Center conferences. Caroline Elkins, “British Accounts of Mau In these and our more traditional ways, the Mau Emergency” Center continues to invite the generation of new ideas and to encourage discussions within and Mark Elliott, “Reinventing the Manchus: An across scholarly disciplines. The Weatherhead Imperial People in Postimperial China” Center supports research that deepens the

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 11 Jeffrey Frankel, “Over-Optimism in Official to) facilitating work sessions among collaborators, Forecasts as a Source of Budget Deficits covering summer salaries for those faculty Among Industrialized Countries and devoting their full time to project development, Commodity Exporters” and providing short-term office space.

Steven Levitsky and Jorge I. Domínguez, “Party- Bart Bonikowski, “Populist Politics in Building (and Non-Building) in Latin America” Contemporary Democracies”

Kimberly Thiedon, “After the Truth: Legacies of Sexual Violence in Peru”

Medium Research Grants for Faculty Faculty Associates are eligible for medium grants up to $25,000 for research that brings together faculty from different fields. This research must focus on international, transnational, global, or comparative national issues and may address contemporary or historical topics. It must include rigorous policy analysis as well as the study of countries and regions outside the United States. Listed below are the recipients and their research areas.

James Alt, “Fiscal Gimmickry in OECD Countries”

Neil Brenner, “World Urbanization: Theory, Method, Policy”

Mary C. Brinton, “Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies: A Cross-Region Comparative Study”

Rohini Pande, “Value for Money in Purchasing Votes: A Lab Experiment in the Field”

Monica Singhal, “Policy Mechanisms for Improving State Fiscal Capacity: Field Tests of Alternative Approaches”

Research Incubation Fund The Weatherhead Center annually earmarks three awards of $30,000 each to support the development of what will become large-scale faculty research proposals. To receive incubation funds from the Weatherhead Center, principal investigators must intend to apply for major outside funding to carry out the bulk of the proposed research. Center funds may be used for a variety of purposes, including (but not limited

12 Research Activities Conferences & Special Events

Lac d’Annecy in Talloires, France. Photo credit: Megan Countey

Samuel L. and Elizabeth bridges China studies and international relations Jodidi Lecture together with recognized scholars in these fields.

October 3, 2011 Whether China’s economic and political development is advancing toward rapid “Islam and Peace-Building in West Africa,” expansion in its relative power or an implosion Speaker: His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad born of socioeconomic and political inequality, Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto. there is growing demand in universities, The Sultan, as the titular ruler of Sokoto in government, and the business sector for reliable northern Nigeria, is head of Jama’atu Nasril Islam analysis of China’s role in global and regional (Society for the Victory of Islam), and president- economic, social, and security affairs. We general of the Nigerian National Supreme Council think that a sound understanding of China’s for Islamic Affairs. He is the spiritual leader of foreign relations depends on research that Nigeria’s 70 million Muslims, who entail half the draws on both theories and methods from the nation’s population. On October 3, the Sultan, discipline of international relations and on deep in the tradition of Jodidi lecturers addressing knowledge of China’s interaction with the outside “tolerance, understanding and good will among world. To this end, China and the World offers nations, and the peace of the world,” spoke about postdoctoral fellowships to encourage advanced Islam and peace-building in West Africa. graduate students and new PhDs to integrate their knowledge of international relations as a discipline with their knowledge of China. The Fifth Annual China and the program provides an opportunity for scholars World Program Fellows Workshop to advance their research, to develop a stronger sense of community with others working on October 6-7, 2011 both China and international relations, to forge interdisciplinary ties with China experts in Founded in 2005, the Princeton-Harvard China other fields as well as with policy makers and and the World Program (CWP) is committed to intellectuals without China expertise, and to integrating the advanced study of China’s foreign access the first-class resources in international relations into the field of international relations, by relations and China that both Princeton and bringing exceptional young scholars whose work Harvard have to offer.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 13 The China and the World program encourages “Meeting the Challenge of Building an Innovative research on neglected or inadequately studied Country: The Political Economy of Chinese Patent problems in Chinese foreign relations including, Policy in the New Century” but not limited to, the following: Speaker: Zhan Zhenqing, CWP Fellow. Commentators: Injoo Sohn, Assistant Professor, • China’s bilateral strategic interactions Department of Politics and Public Administration, • China’s participation in international security, University of Hong Kong; Regina Abrami, Senior economic, and social (e.g., health and Fellow and Faculty Chair, Immersion Experience education) institutions Program, Harvard Business School. • Sources and content of military and strategic thinking in China “Economic Statecraft with Chinese • China’s responses to the diffusion of global Characteristics: State Control and China’s norms Overseas Investment” • The role of misperceptions and cognitive biases Speaker: Will Norris, CWP Fellow. Commentators: in Chinese foreign policy Scott Kastner, Associate Professor, Department • China’s responses to and effect on economic of Government and Politics, University of globalization and regional interdependence Maryland, College Park; Zheng Yu, Assistant • The relationship between historical memory Professor, Department of Political Science, and contemporary foreign policy behavior University of Connecticut. • China’s evolving foreign policy decision making processes, including linkages between domestic Friday, October 7 economics, politics, and foreign policy “Politics of Ethnicity in the People’s Republic of China: International and Domestic Contestation” The 2011 China and the World Fellows Workshop Speaker: Han Enze, CWP Fellow. Commentators: was held October 6-7 at Harvard University. Jessica Chen Weiss, Assistant Professor, Current and past fellows participated in this Department of Political Science, Yale University; event. The current fellows presented their Allen Carlson, Associate Professor, Department of research on topics related to international Government, Cornell University. relations and to China’s role in world politics. “Concepts Past and Present: Late Qing Thursday, October 6 Legacies in Today’s Chinese International “China and the Pariah States: The View from the Relations Debates?” Speaker: Alison Kaufman, CWP Fellow. UN Security Council” Commentators: , Speaker: Joel Wuthnow, CWP Fellow. Manjari Chatterjee Miller Assistant Professor, Department of International Commentators: Todd Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Relations, Boston University; Yinan He, Associate Professor, Whitehead School of Diplomacy, Seton Toronto Mississauga; Thomas Christensen, William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace Hall University. and War, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Ruling Politics: The Formal and Informal Foundations of Power “Chinese Aerospace Development: in New Democracies Comprehensiveness and Converging Sectors” November 21–22, 2011 Speaker: Andrew Erickson, CWP Fellow. Commentators: Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor, Recent research has found that formal Department of Political Science, Massachusetts institutions have a weaker impact on political Institute of Technology; Xu Xin, Adjunct outcomes than is often believed. In many Associate Professor, Department of Government, countries, but particularly in developing and Cornell University. postcommunist ones, parchment rules are often widely manipulated, circumvented, or ignored in

14 Conferences & Special Events practice—or they change so repeatedly that they Chairs cannot effectively guide politicians’ expectations. Moreover, informal institutions often shape Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, political behavior in ways that deviate from the Department of Government, Harvard University; formal rules. This conference explores when, why, Dan Slater, Associate Professor of Political and under what conditions formal institutions Science, University of Chicago. matter. When do formal rules—or rule changes— Monday, November 21 have a significant impact on politicians’ behavior? Under what conditions are they unlikely to “Introduction and Overview” have such an effect? Participants wrote papers Speakers: Steven Levitsky, Professor of that examine the effects of a specific formal Government, Department of Government, Harvard institutional change in one or more countries, University; Dan Slater, Associate Professor asking why they did or did not generate a of Political Science, University of Chicago. substantive change in actual political practice. Discussants: John Carey, John Wentworth We examined the impact of formal institutional Professor in the Social Sciences, Department change in three broad areas: of Government, Dartmouth College; Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science, • The State, Bureaucracy, and Rule of Law. What Massachusetts Institute of Technology. role does institutional reform play in improving bureaucratic effectiveness, reducing corruption Speakers: Dan Slater, Associate Professor of and clientelism, or strengthening the rule of law? Political Science, University of Chicago; Kristin • Electoral Rules, Parties, and Party Systems. McKie, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Program on What impact does electoral reform have on Democracy, MacMillan Center for International politicians’ strategies and on the character of and Area Studies, Lecturer, Department of party systems and party-voter linkage? Political Science, Yale University (2011–2012). • Executive Power and Inter-Branch Relations. Discussant: Dan Posner, Total Chair on How informal institutions mediate the Contemporary Africa and Professor of Political relationship between constitutional Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. arrangements and inter-branch power relations; what noninstitutional factors shape the way Speakers: Simeon Nichter, Academy Scholar, different presidential and parliamentary Harvard Academy for International and Area systems function in practice? Studies, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (commencing Papers explored the role of preexisting informal July 2012); Anna Grzymala-Busse, Ronald institutions in blocking, undermining, or and Eileen Weiser Professor of European and facilitating formal institutional reforms, as well as Eurasian Studies, Department of Political Science, the circumstances that surround the rule change University of Michigan. Discussant: Dominika itself, including the sources of pressure for reform Koter, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of (e.g., international vs. domestic); the coalitions Political Science, University of Chicago. supporting and opposing reform; the character Speakers: Eduardo Dargent, PhD Candidate of the actors adopting the reform (e.g., new or in Government, University of Texas, Austin, old, stable or unstable); and the crisis or noncrisis Assistant Professor of Political Science, Pontificia environment in which reforms are adopted. They Universidad Católica del Perú; Alberto Vergara, also weighed the importance of country-specific PhD, Political Science; Allen Hicken, Director, factors—such as state capacity, rule of law, and Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of the level of institutionalization in the polity as a Michigan. Discussant: Daniel Ziblatt, Professor of whole—in shaping the prospects for new rules to Government, Harvard University. produce their intended political effects. Speakers: Thad Dunning, Associate Professor of Political Science, Research Fellow, Whitney

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 15 and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Chairs Area Studies, Yale University; David Samuels, Professor, University of Minnesota. Discussant: Jeffry A. Frieden, Stanfield Professor of Nahomi Ichino, Assistant Professor, Department International Peace, Department of Government, of Government, Harvard University. Harvard University; Kenneth Shepsle, George D. Markham Professor of Government, Department Tuesday, November 22 of Government, Harvard University.

Speakers: Tulia Falleti, Assistant Professor, Co-sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Department of Political Science, University of Social Science Pennsylvania; Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin; Untitled Abby Blass, PhD Candidate, University of Texas Speakers: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago; at Austin. Discussant: Maria Victoria Murillo, Rodney Ramcharan, International Monetary Professor of Political Science and International Fund. Discussants: Raquel Fernandez, New York Affairs, Columbia University. University; Barry Weingast, Stanford University.

Speaker: Lily L. Tsai, Associate Professor “Trade Shocks, Mass Movements, and of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute Decolonization: Evidence from India’s of Technology. Discussant: Prerna Singh, Independence Struggle” Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Speakers: Saumitra Jha, Stanford University; Harvard University. Rikhil Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Discussants: Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University; David Stasavage, New York University. PIEP: Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference “Macro-Economic Voting: Local Information and December 3, 2011 Micro-Perceptions of the Macro-Economy” Speakers: Steve Ansolabehere, Harvard Over the past twenty-five years, two separate University; Marc Meredith, University of strands of research in political economy have Pennsylvania; Erik Snowberg, California Institute developed. The first is the rigorous analysis of of Technology. Discussants: Laurent Bouton, the impact of political institutions on political Boston University; Lisa Martin, University of behavior and political outcomes. The second Wisconsin, Madison. is the analysis of the making of economic policy, which has tried to develop theoretically 2012 weatherhead center consistent and empirically grounded explanations undergraduate thesis of economic policy outcomes. Typically, they conference have developed entirely segregated from each other: the analysis of political institutions without february 9–11, 2012 concern for economic policy-making implications, See Student Programs, page 102. and the study of economic policy making with limited attention to the institutional environment in which it takes place. The goal of this Friendship in International conference is to encourage the development of Relations: Conceptions and an approach to politics and policy making that is Practices theoretically rigorous and empirically systematic February 24, 2012 with regard to both political institutions and economic factors. See Program on Transatlantic Relations, page 90.

16 Conferences & Special Events Divided Cities, Divergent Life was the twenty-fifth gathering of this annual Chances in Canada and the conference, and it took stock of the US-European United States relationship: What crucial changes have occurred May 2–4, 2012 since our first meeting? Where do we stand today? Where do we appear to be headed as See Canada Program, page 67. we look twenty-five years into the future? What conclusions should we draw for the internal imperatives of this relationship and its role in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs evolving politics of the globe? conference in Talloires, France Chair June 15–17, 2012 Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, annually organizes a gathering of international Department of Government, Harvard University. participants in Talloires, France, to address Friday, June 15 current issues in international affairs. The topics covered in the past five years include: Welcome Speaker: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead • “Beyond Bilateral Relations: The United States, Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of Europe, and Issues of Global Importance” International Affairs, Department of Government, (2006) Harvard University. • “Democracy in Contemporary Global Politics: Global Governance, Foreign Policies, Domestic Session I: Shifts of Geopolitical Importance Politics” (2007) • “World Order as a US-European Issue” (2008) The Rise of Asia in World Politics • “Rising Powers Amidst International Turmoil: • The impact on the global power balance The United States and Europe Facing China and • Asia as a potential source of conflict Russia” (2009) • Consequences for global governance and its • “Securing International Order: The Global rules Economic Crisis and the US-European Relationship” (2010) Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction • “The Middle East and World Order: A Continued • How has the expansion of the number of Focus of Transatlantic Concern” (2011) nuclear weapons states to nine affected world politics? In June 2012, the Talloires Conference of the • What is the likely impact of the evolving cases Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Iran and North Korea? celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. We • How much do we have to worry about B and C traced the concept’s birth to a gathering in weapons proliferations? Massachusetts on Cape Cod in 1985 when a number of interested scholars concluded that Responsibility to Protect a regular exchange of views on US-European • How and why did this approach emerge? relations was crucial to the understanding of • Libya as a case the evolution of global politics. As a result of • A trend of the future? that meeting, the Center for International Affairs convened a conference in Talloires for the first Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of time in 1987. Since then the conference has been International Relations, Director, Center for a key venue for the discussion of important topics International Studies, Department of Politics of international affairs and the US-European and International Relations, University of Oxford. relationship. “1985–2012–2040: The United States Speakers: John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell and Europe within Changing Global Politics” Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 17 Political Science, Co-director, Program on Session II, Part Two: Foundations of Change: International Security Policy, University of Comparing the United States and Europe Chicago; Thierry de Montbrial, President, Institut français des relations internationales, Paris; The Social Model Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security • Inequality and its impact Program, Editor in Chief, International Security, • The future of the pension and health care Harvard Kennedy School. systems • Diverging models of the welfare state Dinner and Keynote Address Political Culture Chair: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead • The impact of polarization and money Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of • The difficulty of governance under crisis International Affairs, Department of Government, conditions Harvard University. • Diverging models of democracy? “‘The Future of the European Union and the Euro: Toward a Two-Tier System?’—A Perspective Speakers: Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor from Britain” of European Studies, Faculty Associate, Minda Speaker: Shirley Williams, United Kingdom House de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, of Lords, Co-founder, Liberal Democrats, Public Co-director, Program on Successful Societies for Service Professor of Electoral Politics, Emerita, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Harvard Kennedy School. Harvard University; Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Geneva; Bruno Saturday, June 16 Palier, Research Director, Center for European Studies, Sciences Po, Scientific Coordinator, Session II, Part One: Foundations of Change: European Network of Excellence, Reconciling Comparing the United States and Europe Work and Welfare in Europe. The Economy Session II, Part Three: Foundations of Change: • Indebtedness and its remedies Comparing the United States and Europe • Deindustrialization and innovation • Competitiveness Foundations of Foreign Policy • Public and elite views on America’s and The Special Role of the Financial Sector Europe’s role in world politics • The Impact of the financial sector and • European integration, enlargement, and the role approaches to regulation of sovereignty • The future of the euro • Resource constraints and their impact on • The role of the dollar in the world economy foreign policy

Chair: Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard Directions of Foreign Policy Academy for International and Area Studies, • America’s global role: reduction and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of reorientation Mexico, Department of Government, Vice Provost • The enlarged European Union pursuing for International Affairs. Speakers: Richard what role? Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International • The US and the EU as actors in the changing Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard world economy University; Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Speakers: Nicola Clase, Ambassador, Embassy Harvard University; Jacques Mistral, Pierre Keller of Sweden, London, United Kingdom; Andrew Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Moravcsik, Professor of Politics and International Kennedy School, Head of Economic Studies, Affairs, Princeton University; Richard Rosecrance, Institut français des relations internationals, Paris. Adjunct Professor in Public Policy, Senior Fellow,

18 Conferences & Special Events Belfer Center for Science and International warren and anita manshel Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of lecture on american foreign Political Science and Public Policy, University of policy California, Los Angeles. June 16, 2012 Sunday, June 17 “The Future of American Foreign Policy” Session III: Consequences for the US-European Speaker: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Relationship: Coming Together or Drifting Apart? Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, Former What Shared Interests and Common Goals? Director, US Department of State Planning Staff. • The financial system, trade, and investment • Preserving security Chair: Pierre Keller, Former Senior Partner, • Upholding the values of democracy Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie.

Held during the Weatherhead Center for Institutional Consequences International Affiars Conference in Talloires, France. • What institutional links between the US and the EU? • Adapting NATO • Modernizing global governance: UN, G20, G8

Internal Prerequisites • Creating a minimum consensus on the international role of the US and Europe • Mobilizing the necessary resources for these roles • Creating a consensus about the essentials of US-European relations

Chair: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Speakers: Jim Hoagland, Associate Editor, Senior Foreign Correspondent, and Columnist, the Washington Post; Jaakko Laajava, Under- Secretary of State, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Helsinki, Facilitator, conference on the establishment of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East.

Closing remarks Speakers: Karl Kaiser, Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Steven B. Bloomfield, Weatherhead Center Executive Director.

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Seminars

Open Seminars April 3, 2012

Africa Research Seminar “The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling” The Africa Research Seminar, co-sponsored Speaker: Eric V. Edmonds, Associate Professor by the Committee on African Studies, of Economics, Dartmouth College, Director, Child examines economic, political, and educational Labor Network, Institute for the Study of Labor. development in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on the post-independence period. Three or four Canada Seminar times each semester, the seminar invites scholars from the disciplines of the social sciences See Canada Program, page 67. to present their ongoing research. General discussion follows each presentation. Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: European and American Seminar Chair Perspectives Matthew Jukes, Associate Professor of Education, See Program on Transatlantic Relations, page 90. Harvard Graduate School of Education. Conversations across Borders: February 7, 2012 A Workshop in Transnational Studies “Can We Realize the Promise of All Children Reading? A Conceptual Framework for Literacy Transnationalism is the subject of a growing, but Intervention in Action” fragmented, body of scholarship. The researchers Speaker: Amy Jo Dowd, Senior Advisor for who study businesses, social movements, NGOs, Education Research, Department of Education artistic production, and families or religions that and Child Development, Save the Children. cross borders rarely see themselves as part of the same conversation. Yet, we are convinced that March 20, 2012 to understand contemporary social life we must explore the connections between different types “A Day in School: How Much Opportunity to Learn of transnational dynamics with “non-transnational” Do Schools Provide?” phenomena. We need to analyze how transnational Speaker: Elizabeth Adelman, EdD Candidate, practices and processes in different domains relate Harvard Graduate School of Education. to and inform one another.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 21 This seminar attempts to bridge these gaps by Speaker: Francisca Rojas, Postdoctoral Fellow, fostering conversations about a variety of topics, Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic from a variety of disciplines, around the world. Governance and Innovation, Harvard The goal of the seminar is to identify the common Kennedy School. themes, structures, ideas, and institutions that November 29, 2011 characterize transnational social dynamics and processes in different arenas, and to understand “Neither State nor Civil Society? Conceptualizing how, in response, to rethink conventional notions the Place of Development INGOs in about identity, citizenship, community, and Transnational Mobilizations” society. Faculty and graduate students from Speaker: Jocelyn Viterna, Assistant Professor of Harvard as well as other Boston-area institutions Sociology and of Social Studies, Department of are invited to present their ongoing research. Two Sociology, Harvard University. outside speakers are invited each year. “Prostitutes and Defectors: Gendered Migration Seminar Chairs and the Ukrainian State” Tamara Kay, Associate Professor of Sociology, Speaker: Cinzia D. Solari, Assistant Professor of Harvard University, Faculty Co-director, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Transnational Studies Initiative, Hauser Center February 21, 2012 for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School; Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology, “Mediating Women: Producing Indian Television, Wellesley College, Co-director, Transnational Repositioning the Self on Transnational Terrain” Studies Initiative, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Speaker: Deborah Matzner, Assistant Professor of Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School. Anthropology, Wellesley College.

September 27, 2011 “Video ‘Influencías:’ Sensing Spirits, Transcendence, and Mediation in Santeria “In Ireland ‘Latin Americans are Kind of Religious Media” Cool:’ Context of Reception in a New Speaker: Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Assistant Immigrant Destination” Professor of African American Religions, Harvard Speaker: Helen Marrow, Assistant Professor Divinity School. of Sociology and Latin American Studies, Tufts University. March 27, 2012

“Taxation, Reterritorialization, and Identity at the “Experimental Aesthetics at the Jewish Museum” Mexico-Guatemala Border” Speaker: Tamar Barzel, Assistant Professor of Speaker: Rebecca Galemba, Lecturer on Social Music, Wellesley College. Studies, Harvard University. “Mineral Marketplaces, Arbitrage, and the October 25, 2011 Production of Difference” Speaker: Elizabeth Ferry, Associate Professor of “Should I Stay or Should I Go? Transnational Anthropology, Brandeis University. Migration and Its Political Impact on Democratic Consolidation and Political Radicalism in the April 24, 2012 European Union” “What Is Democracy? Promises and Perils after Speaker: Ruxandra Paul, Graduate Fellow, Harvard the Arab Spring” Academy for International and Area Studies, Speaker: Valentine Moghadam, Director, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, International Affairs Program, Professor of Harvard University. Sociology, Northeastern University. “Mediating Migration: Identifying Links “Migrant Claims-Making Revisited: Ethnography’s From New York to the World through the Contribution to Newspaper Analysis” Telecommunications Network”

22 Seminars Speaker: Liza Mugge, Assistant Professor in Speaker: Michael S. Dukakis, Distinguished Gender and Ethnicity, Department of Political Professor, Northeastern University, 1988 Science, University of Amsterdam. Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Cultural Politics: University of California, Los Angeles. Interdisciplinary Perspectives May 1, 2012 This seminar functions as a forum for lectures and intellectual exchanges on cultural politics across “Presbyterian Ecclesiology and Reform disciplines and national or historical boundaries. Politics in Scotland and Canada in the Early The main focus of the seminar is on European Nineteenth Century” cultural politics in the era of globalization. Speaker: Valerie Wallace, Visiting Fellow, Center Synchronic as well as diachronic explorations for History and Economics, Research Associate, of current debates on the tensions between University College London. hegemonizing and marginal, local, or minor Economic Development Workshop cultural discourses are presented and commented upon by policy makers and scholars in a variety This year-long course (Economics 3390) is of fields including: critical theory, philosophy, offered to graduate students for academic credit. anthropology, political science, history, and law. The students and faculty leading the workshop meet weekly to discuss papers on international Seminar Chairs economics, development, and economic relations Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of between industrialized and less industrialized Modern Greek Studies, Professor of Comparative countries. Faculty participants are drawn from the Literature, Department of the Classics, Director, Department of Economics and Harvard Kennedy Modern Greek Studies Program, Harvard School, as well as other departments and schools University; Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Associate of the University. The workshop also invites Professor, Department of Classics, Department of economists from other universities and research Anthropology, and the Humanities Center, Johns institutions to present their work. Hopkins University. Seminar Chairs December 15, 2011 Michael R. Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Special Event at Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Societies, Department of Economics, Harvard Greece: “Honoring Greek Culture” University; Shawn Cole, Assistant Professor of Convener: Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Business Administration, Finance Unit, Harvard Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Professor Business School. of Comparative Literature, Department of the September 13, 2011 Classics, Director, Modern Greek Studies Program, Harvard University. “The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico” with Peter Klenow February 6, 2012 Speaker: Chang Tai-Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin “Ecology without the Present” Winkelried Professor of Economics, University of Speaker: Timothy Morton, Professor of English Chicago Booth School of Business. (Literature and the Environment), University of September 20, 2011 California at Davis. “El Niño and Mexican Children: Medium-Term April 30, 2012 Effects of Early-Life Weather Shocks on Cognitive “Ethnicity and American Politics: A Greek- and Health Outcomes” with Marta Vicarelli American Who Made It—Almost” Speaker: Arturo Aguilar, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

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“Estimating the Impact of Health Insurance in “Behavioral Responses to Notches: Evidence from Developing Nations: Evidence from Mexico’s Administrative Tax Records in Pakistan” Seguro Popular” Speaker: Henrik Kleven, Associate Professor Speaker: Jeremy Barofsky, PhD Candidate, (Reader), London School of Economics and Harvard School of Public Health. Political Science.

October 11, 2011 December 6, 2011

“The Impact of Drinking Water Infrastructure on “Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Time Allocation and Farm Production: Evidence Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil” from the Kyrgyz Republic” Speaker: Thomas Fujiwara, Assistant Professor, Speaker: Robyn Meeks, PhD Candidate, Sustainability Department of Economics, Princeton University. Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School. December 13, 2011 October 18, 2011 “Markets for Fake Products: Experimental “Debt Structure, Entrepreneurship, and Risk: Evidence from Local Markets for Antimalarial Evidence from Microfinance” with Erica Field, Medicine in Uganda” John Papp, and Natalia Rigol Speaker: David Yanigazawa-Drott, Assistant Speaker: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard School. Kennedy School. February 8, 2012 October 25, 2011 “The Human Capital Stock: A “Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets: Generalized Approach” Evidence from Demand Shocks” Speaker: Ben Jones, Associate Professor, Speaker: Supreet Kaur, PhD Candidate, Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Department of Economics, Harvard University. Management, Northwestern University.

November 1, 2011 February 15, 2012

“Bargaining and Welfare: A Dynamic Structural “Kwacha Gonna Do: Experimental Evidence about Analysis of the Autorickshaw Market” Labor Supply in Rural Malawi” Speaker: Dan Keniston, Assistant Professor, Speaker: Jessica Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Department of Economics, Yale University. Economics, University of Maryland.

November 8, 2011 February 22, 2012

“Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a “Some Inconvenient Truths about Climate Social Networks Experiment” with Lori Beaman Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Speaker: Jeremy Magruder, Assistant Professor, Transportation Policies” Department of Agricultural and Resource Speaker: Chris Knittel, William Barton Rogers Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Professor of Energy Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute November 15, 2011 of Technology.

“From Pawn Shops to Banks: The Impact of February 29, 2012 Formal Credit on Informal Households” Speaker: Claudia Ruiz, Young Professional, “Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Finance and Private Sector Development Team, Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service” Development Economics Research Group, World Bank.

24 Seminars Speaker: Frederico Finan, Associate Professor, Speaker: Chris Udry, Henry Heinz II Professor of Department of Economics, University of Economics, Yale University. California, Berkeley. May 9, 2012 March 7, 2012 “Resource Management in Low Monitoring “Poverty, Growth, and the Demand for Energy” Settings: When Can Granting Cooperatives User Speaker: Catherine Wolfram, Associate Professor Rights Work?” of Business Administration, Haas School of Speaker: Sriniketh Nagavarapu, Assistant Business, University of California, Berkeley. Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Department of Economics and Center for March 14, 2012 Environmental Studies, Brown University.

“Trade Reform and Firm Performance: Evidence May 16, 2012 from India” Speaker: Penny Goldberg, William K. Lanman, Jr., “The General Equilibrium Effect of China’s Urban Professor of Economics, Yale University. Housing Reforms on the Wage Structure” Speaker: Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of March 21, 2012 Business Administration, Harvard Business School. “Labor Market Returns to Very Early Childhood Economic History Workshop Stimulation: A Twenty-Year Follow-up to the Jamaica Study” The Economic History Workshop (Economics Speaker: Paul Gertler, Professor, Haas School 3336) is an interdisciplinary offering of the of Business, Professor, Health Services Finance, Department of Economics. In continuous School of Public Health, University of California, operation for almost fifty years, the workshop Berkeley. has become an exceptionally important forum for April 4, 2012 economic historians in the greater Boston area, serving as a lively and deeply informative seminar “Truth-telling by Third-Party Auditors: Evidence for those interested in long-term economic from a Randomized Field Experiment in India” change, economic growth, and development. Speaker: Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, Massachusetts The workshop organizers for fall 2011 are Institute of Technology. Eric Chaney and Nathan Nunn from the Department of Economics. Claudia Goldin and April 11, 2012 visiting professor Stanley Engerman from the Department of Economics are the organizers for “Risk Sharing and Transaction Costs: Evidence spring 2012. from Kenya’s Mobile Money Revolution” Speaker: Tavneet Suri, Associate Professor of Seminar Chairs Applied Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eric Chaney, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Nathan April 18, 2012 Nunn, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Claudia Goldin, “Environmental Regulations and Corruption: Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard Automobile Emissions in Mexico City” University; Stanley Engerman, Visiting Professor Speaker: Paulina Oliva, Assistant Professor, of Economics, Harvard University; John Munro, Department of Economics, University of Professor of Economics, University of Rochester. California, Santa Barbara. September 16, 2011 May 2, 2012 “Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two “Examining Investment and Financial Markets in Centuries of Inheritance Taxation” Agriculture”

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 25 Speaker: David Stasavage, Professor of Politics, Speaker: Peter Turchin, Professor of Ecology and New York University. Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut.

September 23, 2011 February 3, 2012

“Insurgency, Agrarian Reform, and Long- “Mortality from Smallpox: The 1780s Epidemic in run Development: Lessons from the the Hudson Bay Region” Mexican Revolution” Speaker: Frank Lewis, Professor of Economics, Speaker: Melissa Dell, PhD Candidate Queen’s University, Canada. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute February 10, 2012 of Technology.

October 7, 2011 “Was Mechanization De-Skilling?” Speaker: Jim Bessen, Lecturer in Law, “Diffusing Knowledge while Spreading God’s Boston University. Message: Protestantism and Economic Prosperity February 17, 2012 in China, 1840–1920” Speaker: James Kung, Professor of Economics, “Education and Military Rivalry” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Speakers: Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner October 14, 2011 Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Dorothee Rouzet, “Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witchcraft PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard University; in Europe” Torsten Persson, Professor of Economics, Speaker: Noel Johnson, Assistant Professor of University of Stockholm. Economics, George Mason University. February 24, 2012 October 21, 2011 “Heights and Economic Welfare: Evidence from “Are There Ruling Classes? Surnames and Social the 1890 Cherokee Census” Mobility in England, 1800–2011” Speaker: Melinda Miller, Assistant Professor of Speaker: Gregory Clark, Professor of Economics, Economics, United States Naval Academy. University of California, Davis. March 2, 2012 October 28, 2011 “The Welfare Impact of a New Good: The “Does the Background of Managers Matter for Printed Book” Firm Performance? Evidence from State-Owned Speaker: Jeremiah Dittmar, Assistant Professor of Enterprises, 1973–1993” Economics, American University. Speaker: Aldo Musacchio, Associate Professor of March 9, 2012 Business Administration, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard “The Long-term Consequences of Distinctively Business School. Black Names” November 4, 2011 Speaker: Trevon Logan, Associate Professor of Economics, Ohio State University. “The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, March 30, 2012 1188–1789” Speaker: Jan Luiten van Zanden, Professor in “The Career Cost of Family” Economic History, Utrecht University. Speakers: Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor November 18, 2011 of Economics, Harvard University; Larry Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, “Structural-Demographic Causes of Political Harvard University. Instability: A Model”

26 Seminars April 6, 2012 November 3, 2011

“A Spatial Analysis of Technological Spillovers “The Wear and Tear of the War on Terror on among Patents and Unpatented Innovations in American Foreign Policy: The Military Perspective” Nineteeth Century United States” Speaker: Mark Slocum, Colonel, United States Air Speaker: B. Zorina Khan, Professor of Economics, Force; Stephen J. Mariano, Colonel, United States Bowdoin College. Army; Andrew Ring, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy. April 20, 2012 April 12, 2012 “Panic of 1907” Speaker: Carola Frydman, Assistant Professor of “The Return to Growth: Choosing Reason Over Economics, Boston University; Eric Hilt, Assistant Left and Right” Professor of Economics, Wellesley College. A Conversation with Dr. H. Woody Brock about his new book American Gridlock. Ethics, Economics, and Speaker: H. Woody Brock, Author. International Relations Harvard Business School The Seminar on Ethics, Economics, and International Seminar International Relations provides a forum for scholars, practitioners, and researchers to explore The Harvard Business School International a broad range of ethical and social issues relevant Seminar brings together scholars from a variety of to international politics. In the past, speakers disciplines to talk about research on international have approached a variety of issues including business, international entrepreneurship, and humanitarian intervention, human rights, the role comparative corporate governance. Participants of the state, global justice, economic inequality, include faculty and graduate students from public policy, and international development Harvard Business School, but all Weatherhead and conflict in the twenty-first century. While Center affiliates and other members of the participants bring a variety of backgrounds community are welcome to attend. and methodological approaches to the seminar, they are united by an interest in the area where In 2010–2011, speakers included Alexander Hijzen the normative and empirical dimensions of of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation international politics meet. Many of them bring and Development (OECD); Bruce Carruthers of a cross- or inter-disciplinary approach to their Northwestern University; Witold Henisz of the specific topic of interest, and all seek to address Wharton School; and Christopher Marquis, Shawn their topic to a wider academic audience. Cole, and Francois Brochet of Harvard Business Participants are typically drawn from the School. In 2009–2010, speakers included Belen Weatherhead Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Villalonga, Laura Alfaro, and Tarun Khanna of Harvard Divinity School, and the Faculty of Arts the Harvard Business School; Dani Rodrik of the and Sciences’ Departments of Government, Harvard Kennedy School; and Pol Antras of the Economics, Philosophy, and History, as well as Department of Economics at Harvard University. from several other universities and institutions, In 2008–2009, guest speakers included Lakshmi and from the public sphere. Iyer, Fabrizio Ferri, and Ramana Nanda of the Harvard Business School; Carsten Burhop of Seminar Chair Yale University; Myles Shaver of the University of Minnesota; Caroline Fohlin of the Johns Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor Hopkins University; and Elena Obukhova of the of History, Department of History, Harvard Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Speakers University, William Ziegler Professor of Business for 2007–2008 focused on international political Administration, Harvard Business School. economy, global strategy, and comparative corporate governance.

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Jordan I. Siegel, Associate Professor of “Banks and Development: Jewish Communities Business Administration, Strategy Unit, Harvard in the Italian Renaissance and Current Economic Business School. Performance” Speaker: Luigi Pascali, Assistant Professor, September 22, 2011 Universitat Pompeu, Fabra.

“Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of January 26, 2012 Anti-Corruption Efforts” Speakers: Paul Healy, James R. Williston “What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Professor of Business Administration, Senior Brazil, 2002–2009” Associate Dean, Director of Research, Accounting Speakers: Aldo Musacchio, Associate Professor of and Management Unit, Harvard Business Business Administration, Business, Government, School; Georgios Serafeim, Assistant Professor and the International Economy Unit, Harvard of Business Administration, Accounting and Business School; Sergio G. Lazzarini, Professor, Management Unit, Harvard Business School. Organization and Strategy, Instituto de Ensina e Pesquisa (INSPER), Brazil. October 27, 2011 February 16, 2012 “Admitting Errors: Accounting Restatements by Foreign Companies Listed in the US” “Signal or Symbol? Interpreting Firms’ Strategic Speakers: Suraj Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Response to Institutional Change in the Brazilian Accounting and Management, Harvard Business Stock Market” School; Aida Sijamic Wahid, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Susan Perkins, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Control, Harvard Business School; Management and Organizations, Kellogg School Gwen Yu, Assistant Professor, Accounting and of Management, Northwestern University. Management, Harvard Business School. May 3, 2012 November 10, 2011 “The Role of Geographic and Organizational “Firms as Catalyst of Within-Country Migration: Boundaries in Nanotechnology Collaboration” Evidence from a Randomized Intra-firm Speaker: Mariko Sakakibara, Associate Professor, Experiment in India” Anderson School of Management, University of Speakers: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Assistant California, Los Angeles. Professor, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Harvard International and Professor, Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School. Global History Seminar

November 17, 2011 The Harvard International and Global History Seminar serves as a forum for lectures and “Arbitraging Differences in Emissions Permit workshops presenting cutting-edge work in Prices: How Multinational Firms Exploit Market the fields of international and global history. Imperfections in the European Union Emissions Presenters, who come from both within and Trading Scheme” outside Harvard, offer papers that focus on Speaker: Sanjay Patnaik, PhD Candidate, Strategy relationships, connections, transfers, and Unit, Harvard Business School. movements between nations or regions of the December 1, 2011 world, and often employ comparative and/ or connective analytical frameworks that cross “The Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the traditional historiographical boundaries. In Institutionalization of Sex Segregation in Japan” 2011–2012, the seminar is chaired by David Speaker: Eunmi Mun, Lecturer, Department of Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. History, Department of Histroy, and Erez Manela, professor of history, Department of History.

28 Seminars Seminar Chairs March 7, 2012

Erez Manela, Director, Graduate Student Faculty Roundtable: Is All History Global? Programs, Director, Program on Global Society Speakers: David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein and Security, Professor of History, Department Professor of History, Department of History, of History, Harvard University; David R. Harvard University; Joyce E. Chaplin, James Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American Department of History, Harvard University. History, Harvard University; Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, September 14, 2011 Department of History, Harvard University; Erez “Once within Borders: A History of Territoriality Manela, Director, Graduate Student Programs, since 1500” Director, Program on Global Society and Speaker: Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Security, Professor of History, Department of Professor of History, Department of History, History, Harvard University; Michael McCormick, Harvard University. Comment: Mira Siegelberg, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Chair, Standing Committee on Archaeology, Harvard University. Harvard University.

October 5, 2011 March 28, 2012

“Crossing Empire: Anti-Colonialism in the “The Emotions of George Kennan” US Empire” Speaker: Frank Costigliola, Professor of History, Speaker: Julian Go, Associate Professor of University of Connecticut. Sociology, Boston University. Comment: Andrew April 18, 2012 Baker, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. “Race, Difference, and the Origins of British Anthropology” October 26, 2011 Speaker: Colin Kidd, Professor of Intellectual “War: What Is It Good For?” History and the History of Political Thought, Speaker: Ian Morris, Jean and Rebecca Willard Queen’s University Belfast. Comment: Erik Professor of Classics, Professor of History, Linstrum, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University. Comment: Andrew Coe, Harvard University. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, A joint session with the Center for History and Harvard University. Economics Workshop, page 70. November 16, 2011 May 3, 2012 “The Imagined America of William McKendree “The Geopolitics of British Imperialism 1830–1960” Gwin: Individual Ambition and the Uneven Path of Speaker: John Darwin, Professor of History, American Expansion” Nufflield College, Oxford, Author, After Tamerlane Speaker: Rachel St. John, Assistant Professor, The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400–2000 Department of History, Harvard University. (2007), and The Empire Project The Rise and Fall Comment: Shaun Nichols, PhD Candidate, of the British World System, 1830–1970 (2009). Department of History, Harvard University. A joint session with the Weatherhead Initiative on February 15, 2012 Global History, page 44. “Why States No Longer Declare War” May 4, 2012 Speaker: Tanisha Fazal, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University. Comment: “Is Global History Empire History?” Danny Orbach, PhD Candidate, Department of Speaker: John Darwin, Professor of History, History, Harvard University. Nufflield College, Oxford, Author, After Tamerlane:

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 29 The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400–2000 April 5, 2012 (2007), and The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (2009). “History, Historians, and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue” A joint session with the Weatherhead Initiative on Speakers: Michael Woolcock, Lecturer in Public Global History, page 44. Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Harvard Seminar on History Development, Harvard Kennedy School; and Policy Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy is a Kennedy School; Sergio Silva-Castañeda, Senior forum for lectures and workshops that examine Fellow in the Mexico and Central America the relationship between our interpretation of the Program, Harvard University. past and our approach to policy issues. Typically, each meeting features a presentation by an April 26, 2012 invited scholar whose cutting-edge historical work is informed by, or seeks to influence, “Restless Empire: The Historical Origins of China’s ongoing policy debates. The aims of the seminar Foreign Policy Challenges Today” are to bring historical perspectives to bear on Speaker: Odd Arne Westad, Professor of the work and challenges facing policy makers International History, London School of and to foster more awareness among historians Economics and Political Science. on how their work can inform contemporary Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on public concerns. International Conflict Analysis and Seminar Chairs Resolution

Moshik Temkin, Assistant Professor of Public The theme of the 2011–2012 Herbert C. Kelman Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Alexander Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor Resolution was negotiation, conflict, and the of History and Social Policy, Harvard news media. It explored the relationship between Kennedy School. the news media and conflict resolution efforts worldwide and examined how the framing October 20, 2011 and reporting of conflict influences the public “Not All of Us Were Keynesians: The New York understanding of events. Stock Exchange and the Origins of Supply The seminar considers ways to strengthen the Side Economics” capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform Speaker: Julia Ott, Assistant Professor of History, ethno-national conflicts. It focuses attention on The New School for Social Research. the current political unrest in the Middle East, November 3, 2011 Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and also examines the state of American politics as we approach the “Writing the History of Terrorism” upcoming presidential election. Speakers include Speaker: Martin Miller, Professor of History, experts from academia and the media, as well Duke University. as political actors from the conflict regions. This February 16, 2012 series, sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been planned in “Sailing Backwards on Mexico’s ‘Iron River of collaboration with: Guns:’ The Political Economy of the Arms Trade in the 19th and 21st Centuries” • The Nieman Foundation for Journalism; Speaker: Brian DeLay, Associate Professor, • Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Department of History, University of California, • Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics Berkeley. and Public Policy; and

30 Seminars • Boston-area members of the Alliance Zubair Shah, Reporter, New York Times, Nieman for International Conflict Prevention Fellow, Harvard University. and Resolution. March 26, 2012

Seminars are attended by scholars, practitioners, “Russia’s Leadership Challenges in the 21st students from Harvard, other academics from Century” local universities, and the interested public. Speaker: Kevin Ryan, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and Seminar Chair International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Donna Hicks, Associate. Simon Saradzhyan, Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard October 25, 2011 Kennedy School.

“Political Polarization and Ideas for Restoring April 23, 2012 Civility to Government in 2012” Speakers: Jill Lepore, Professor of American “Trusting Truth: The Path to Avoiding Gridlock in History, Harvard University; Mark McKinnon, Public Dialogue” Reidy Fellow, Joan Shorenstein Center on Speaker: Ron Susskind, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in- the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Residence, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Kennedy School. Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

November 8, 2011 International Economics Workshop

“Beyond Diplomacy: Embedding Peace and The International Economics Workshop Conflict Transformation Processes in Nepal and (Economics 2540) covers a broad spectrum Lebanon” of recent theoretical and empirical research Speakers: Jeff Seul, Chairman, Peace Appeal on international trade, capital markets, and Foundation; Martin Wahlisch, International monetary arrangements. Examples of recent Lawyer and Researcher, Common Space Initiative, topics include the political economy of trade and Beirut. income distribution, global financial adjustment, December 5, 2011 the international organization of production, and the effect of trade on growth and welfare. The “The Dark Side: Reporting on the War on Terror” International Economics Workshop meets once Speakers: Roger Cohen, Columnist, New York a week during the fall and spring semesters and Times, Shorenstein Fellow, Harvard University; is attended by graduate students and faculty, Carlotta Gall, Reporter, New York Times, Nieman mostly from the Department of Economics and Fellow, Harvard University. Harvard Kennedy School.

January 30, 2012 Seminar Chairs

“Religious Fundamentalism in Palestine and Israel Pol Antràs, Professor of Economics, Department and Its Impact on Women” of Economics, Harvard University; Richard N. Speakers: Laila Atshan, Mason Fellow, Harvard Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Kennedy School, Psychologist, Palestine; Dina Economics, Department of Economics, Kraft, Freelance journalist, Tel Aviv, Israel, Nieman Harvard University; Gita Gopinath, Professor of Fellow, Harvard University. Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Elhanan Helpman, Galen L. Stone February 27, 2012 Professor of International Trade, Department “Pakistan and the US: Ships Passing in the Night” of Economics, Harvard University; Marc Speakers: David Greenway, Columnist, Boston Melitz, Professor of Economics, Department Globe, Shorenstein Fellow, Harvard University; Pir of Economics, Harvard University; Kenneth S. Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 31 Policy, Professor of Economics, Department of November 2, 2011 Economics, Harvard University. “Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies” September 7, 2011 Speakers: Manuel Amador, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Mark Aguiar, “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects Professor of Economics, Princeton University. of Import Competition in the United States” Speaker: David Autor, Professor of Economics, November 9, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Environmental Policy and Directed Technical September 14, 2011 Change in a Global Economy: Is There a Case for Carbon Tariffs?” “Default and the Maturity Structure in Speaker: David Hémous, PhD Candidate, Sovereign Bonds” Department of Economics, Harvard University. Speaker: Cristina Arellano, Economist, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. November 16, 2011

September 21, 2011 “Fiscal Devaluations” Speakers: Oleg Itskhoki, Assistant Professor of “How Large are the Gains from Economic Economics and International Affairs, Princeton Integration? Theory and Evidence from US University; Emmanuel Farhi, Professor of Agriculture, 1840–2002” Economics, Department of Economics, Speaker: David Donaldson, Assistant Professor Harvard University; Gita Gopinath, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Economics, Department of Economics, of Technology. Harvard University. September 28, 2011 November 30, 2011 “Trade Liberalization and Firm Dynamics” “Trade and Interdependence in a Spatially Speaker: Marc Melitz, Professor of Economics, Complex World” Department of Economics, Harvard University. Speaker: Michal Fabinger, PhD Candidate in October 5, 2011 Economics, Harvard University.

“Villages as Small Open Economies” December 2, 2011 Speaker: Robert Townsend, Elizabeth and James “Improving National Brands: Reputation for Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Quality and Export Promotion Strategies” Institute of Technology. Speaker: Dorothee Rouzet, PhD Candidate in October 17, 2011 Economics, Harvard University.

“From Hyperinflation to Stable Prices: Argentina’s February 1, 2012 Evidence on Menu Cost Models” “Financial Regulation, Financial Globalization, and Speaker: Fernando Alvarez, Professor in the Synchronization of Economic Activity” Economics and the College, University Speaker: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Professor of of Chicago. Economics, University of Houston. October 26, 2011 February 8, 2012 “Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: “Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data” Dynamics of Reforms” Speaker: Veronica Rappoport, Assistant Speaker: Francisco Buera, Assistant Professor of Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Economics, University of California, Los Angeles. Business School.

32 Seminars February 15, 2012 Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics “Organizing the Global Value Chain” Speaker: Davin Chor, Assistant Professor of South Asia’s economic and strategic relevance Economics, Singapore Management University; has grown significantly in recent years. While Pol Antràs, Professor of Economics, Department scholars often note India’s economic resurgence of Economics, Harvard University. and South Asia’s struggle with terror, the region offers much more that is of enormous intellectual February 22, 2012 interest. Among the important questions of “A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms- politics, economics, and security in South of-Trade Manipulation” Asia, the seminar continues to focus on the Speaker: Guido Lorenzoni, Associate Professor following questions: of Economics, Massachusetts Institute • In what ways do political regimes—democratic of Technology. or authoritarian—influence the process of February 29, 2012 economic development? • In India, export-based, high-tech services “Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation” have led the boom, unlike the traditional Speaker: Stephen J. Redding, Professor of model of development led by manufacturing. Economics, Princeton University. What are the larger lessons of a services-led March 7, 2012 economic transformation? • Has the equality principle of democracy “Sovereign Defaults and the Political Economy of undermined India’s caste system, or have Market Reaccess” caste inequalities changed the script of Indian Speaker: Guido Sandleris, Director, Centro de democracy, forcing it to differ significantly from Investigación en Finanzas, Assistant Professor, the Western democratic experience? Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina. • Serious regional disparities mark virtually the entire region. In India, compared to the March 21, 2012 northern and eastern states, the southern and “Information Frictions in Trade” western states have boomed, in economic as Speaker: Treb Allen, PhD Candidate in Economics, well as human development terms. In Pakistan, Yale University. the Punjab region continues to excel ahead of the other regions. How does one explain such April 4, 2012 variations? What are the consequences of regional inequalities? “Global Banking Glut and Loan Risk Premium” Speaker: Hyun Song Shin, Hughes-Rogers • The shadow of security over politics and Professor of Economics, Princeton University. economics is now dark and deep. Why has terrorism taken such root in Pakistan? Might it April 9, 2012 spread to India in a significant way? Is Maoism a form of revolutionary politics or a genre of “Prices, Markups and Trade Reform” terrorism, or both? Speakers: Penny Goldberg, Professor of • The security situation in Afghanistan is now Economics, Yale University; Jan De Loecker, at the center of international attention. How Assistant Professor of Economics and Public does one understand the problem of instituting Affairs, Princeton University. political order in Afghanistan? April 18, 2012 • Why do South Asian democracies find it so hard to develop more robust human “The Gravity Equation in International Trade: An rights regimes? Explanation” • Why have South Asian societies struggled so Speaker: Thomas Chaney, Assistant Professor of hard to establish reliable legal regimes? Do Economics, University of Chicago.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 33 their cultural and sociological norms seriously November 4, 2011 clash with the rule of law? • Some of the world’s most respected non- “War-making and State-Building: Pakistan in governmental organizations (NGOs) have been Comparative Perspective” working in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Speaker: T. V. Paul, James McGill Professor of India. What can we learn about what kinds of International Relations, McGill University. NGOs succeed and what types fail? March 2, 2012 • How should we understand how India’s democratic longevity has co-existed with “Explaining Corruption: Electoral Competition and (a) party fractionalization, (b) long-lasting Varieties of Rent-Seeking in India” inequalities, and (c) low aggregate incomes? Speaker: Jennifer Bussell, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Meeting monthly and supported by Brown Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin. University, Harvard University, and the April 6, 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Joint Seminar invites not only academics and students “Markets, Politics, and Social Institutions: India’s but also public figures—from politics, business, Dalits in the Post-Economic Liberalization Era” journalism, security, and the NGO sector—to Speakers: Devesh Kapur, Director, CASI, engage in a sustained conversation over the Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the course of the academic year. Study of Contemporary India, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania; Seminar Chairs Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice Ashutosh Varshney, Professor of Political Science, of International Development, Harvard Department of Political Science, Brown University; Kennedy School. Prerna Singh, Assistant Professor, Department April 20, 2012 of Government, Harvard University; Patrick Heller, Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown “Explaining the Presence and Absence of University; Vipin Narang, Assistant Professor, Regional Parties across Indian States” Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Speaker: Adam Ziegfeld, Postdoctoral Prize Institute of Technology. Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2009–2012). September 23, 2011 April 27, 2012 “Why Is Democracy in India So Violent?” Speaker: Kanchan Chandra, Professor of Politics, “The Bangladesh Crisis of 1971: Revisiting Its New York University. Causes and Course” Speaker: Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre September 30, 2011 for Policy Research, New Delhi. “Democracy and the Politics of Need” Speaker: Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Middle East Seminar Professor of Anthropology, Johns Since its inception in 1975, the Middle East Hopkins University. Seminar has focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict October 14, 2011 and the politics of the Middle East. Topics have included the Middle East peace process, state “Incumbents and Criminals in the Indian formation, the role of religion in politics, the National Legislature” international relations of the region, social and Speaker: Miriam A. Golden, Professor of Political economic developments in particular countries in Science, University of California, Los Angeles. the Middle East, and the Middle East policies of the United States, the European Union, and other governments and international organizations.

34 Seminars The seminar meets every other week for a November 17, 2011 presentation by an invited speaker, followed by discussion. Speakers include scholars, diplomats, “People Power: Civic Activism in Yemen” writers, political figures, journalists, and leaders Speaker: Sheila Carapico, Professor of Political of organizations in the Middle East, the United Science and International Studies, University States, and elsewhere, representing a variety of of Richmond. disciplines and political viewpoints. The seminar February 2, 2012 is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Open to the public and off the record, “The Struggle for Democracy in Syria and Its it has become widely known as an arena for the Impact on the Middle East” civilized discussion of controversial issues. Speaker: Amr Al-Azm, Assistant Professor of Middle East History and Anthropology, Seminar Chairs Department of Social Science, Shawnee Herbert C. Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot State University, Active Member of the Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Department Syrian Opposition. of Psychology, Harvard University; Lenore G. February 16, 2012 Martin, Louise Doherty Wyant Chair, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, “India’s Foreign Policy in a Challenging Middle East” Emmanuel College; Sara Roy, Senior Research Speaker: Nirupama Rao, Indian Ambassador to Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the United States. Harvard University. March 1, 2012 September 15, 2011 “Palestine Refugees in a Changing Middle East” “The Durability of Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Speaker: Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General, Lessons of the Arab Spring” United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Speaker: Eva Bellin, Myra and Robert Kraft Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Professor of Arab Politics, Brandeis University. March 29, 2012 October 6, 2011 “The Status of the Peace Process and Application “Reconfiguring Palestine: New Dynamics, New for Admission to UN Membership” Obstacles” Speaker: Riyad Mansour, Ambassador, Permanent Speaker: Sara Roy, Senior Research Observer of Palestine to the United Nations. Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, April 5, 2012 Harvard University. “The Making of the Second Egyptian Republic” October 20, 2011 Speaker: Yoram Meital, Associate Professor, “Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Middle Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion East” University of the Negev, Visiting Fellow, Islamic Speaker: Zeidan Atashi, Former Israeli Diplomat Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. and Member of Knesset. April 19, 2012 November 3, 2011 “The Iranian Elections and the Likely Impact on Its “Can Jewish and Arab Citizens of Israel Live as Middle East Policy” Equals?” Speaker: Banafsheh Keynoush, President, Speakers: Ron Gerlitz, Co-Executive Director, Mideast Analysts. Sikkuy (The Association for the Advancement of April 26, 2012 Civic Equality) Israel; Ali Haider, Co-Executive Director, Sikkuy (The Association for the “Israel’s Receding Democracy in the Context of Advancement of Civic Equality), Israel. the Arab ‘Spring’ and a Failing Peace Process”

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 35 Speaker: Naomi Chazan, Professor Emerita of October 27, 2011 Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, President, New Israel Fund, Dean of the School “Key Challenges and Opportunities for Public of Government and Society, Academic College of Health in Africa: The Nigerian Case Study” Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Former Deputy Speaker, Knesset. Speaker: Juliette Tuakli, Executice Director of CHILD and Associates, Ghana President of the Nigeria in the World United Way, Ghana.

As Nigeria, the most populous country in sub- March 22, 2012 Saharan Africa, marks its 50th anniversary of “Boko Haram vs Boko Halal: Islamic Radical and freedom from colonial rule, its importance in Counter-Radical Trends in Contemporary Nigeria” the global political, economic, and social order Speaker: Muhammed Sani Umar, Associate is becoming increasingly recognized. This Professor of Religion, Director, Institute for Islamic monthly seminar explores the future of Nigeria’s Studies in Africa, Northwestern University. engagement with the world community. It serves as a forum for scholars, researchers, policy Political Violence Workshop makers, and professionals to reflect on critical issues pertaining to Nigeria’s relations with the The Political Violence Workshop brings world by focusing on strategic issues of security, together graduate students from the Harvard regional stability, economic development, and Cambridge-area communities working on interreligious relations, health policy, human issues related to political violence, including rights, justice, and gender. Its overarching goal is revolutions, coups, civil wars, ethnic conflict, to bring Nigeria into dialogue with world issues. terrorism, and failed states. One objective is to develop a cohesive set of scholars focusing on Seminar Chair related research. A second objective is to provide Jacob Olupona, Professor of African Religious direct training to advanced graduate students Traditions, Harvard Divinity School, Professor working in the field. The workshop culminates of African and African American Studies, each spring with a graduate student conference Department of African and African American that brings together students and faculty from Studies, Harvard University. Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University. October 3, 2011 Seminar Chair “The Role of Traditional Nigerian Leaders in Governance” Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science Speaker: Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, of Government, Department of Government, Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria. Chair: Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African American Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Studies, Harvard University. Divinity School, Professor of African and African September 9, 2011 American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. “Building Institutions under Foreign Occupation: Colonial Taiwan Versus the Philippines” October 4, 2011 Speaker: Reo Matsuzaki, Postdoctoral Fellow, “New Dynamics of Democratization and Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule Development in Nigeria: Imperatives for of Law, Stanford University. Servant Leadership” September 23, 2011 Speaker: Muazu Babangida Aliyu, OON, Governor of Niger State, Nigeria. “Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Kenya’s 2007 Post-Election Violence” Speaker: J. Andrew Harris, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

36 Seminars October 7, 2011 Speaker: Adam Chilton, JD/PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University “The Limits of State-Building: The Politics of War and Harvard Law School. and the Ideology of Peace” Speaker: Andrew Radin, PhD Candidate, April 6, 2012 Department of Political Science, Massachusetts “A Model of State Failure with Shifting Institute of Technology. Citizen Behavior” October 28, 2011 Speaker: Michael Z. Gill, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Initiating Insurgency: Rebel Formation and Viability in Uganda” April 13, 2012 Speaker: Janet I. Lewis, PhD Candidate, “The Current and Expected Natural Gas Energy Department of Government, Harvard University, Flows Between Russia and the European Union: Fellow, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, The Future of Ukraine as a Key Transit Gate Yale University. to Europe” “Did the 1960s Urban Riots Reshape American Speaker: Morena Skalamera, Visiting Fellow, Davis Politics?” Center for Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Speaker: Omar Wasow, PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, University of Trieste. Department of African and African American April 20, 2012 Studies, Harvard University. “The Impact of the ‘War on Drugs’ on Coca November 18, 2011 Production and Violence: The Case of “Martyrdom or Irrelevance? The Effect of Usama Plan Colombia” Bin Laden’s Death on His Intellectual Legacy” Speaker: Maria Cecilia Acevedo, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Richard Nielsen, PhD Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Department of Government, Harvard University. Program on U.S.-Japan Relations December 2, 2011 Seminar

“Anticipating Military Breakthroughs” See Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, page 95. Speaker: Jeffrey A. Friedman, PhD Candidate, Committee on Public Policy, Harvard University. Religion and Politics Seminar: Local and Global February 17, 2012 The Seminar on Religion and Politics is an “Terrorists of a Feather: Ideology, Agency, and interdisciplinary collaboration among the Control in State-Sponsored Terror” Weatherhead Center, the Harvard Kennedy Speaker: John D. Payne, PhD Candidate in School, and the Harvard Divinity School. The Political Science, Massachusetts Institute goal of the seminar is to critically explore the of Technology. intersection of religion, law, and politics on March 2, 2012 the local and global levels. Its ongoing themes include the examination of political, legal, and “US Army Small War Doctrine and Foreign Policy: philosophical dimensions of religion and public Is It Driving the Bus or Was It Thrown Under It?” life: the effects of political and constitutional Speaker: Stephen J. Mariano, Colonel, United systems on religious liberty, the relations between States Army. religion and modernity, religion and gender March 23, 2012 equality, religion in international affairs, and the challenges of inter-religious relations. In 2011– “Do Laws Ameliorate the Horrors of War? An 2012, a series of presentations by invited speakers Analysis of Compliance with the Laws of War analyzed religious thought and religious practice during Civil Wars” across different communities and societies.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 37 Seminar Chairs Discussant: Kimberley C. Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Harvard Divinity School. Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School, Secretary for November 7, 2011 Health and Social Services, Archdiocese of “Christianity and Politics: The Duties and the Boston; Ofrit Liviatan, Lecturer, Department Dangers” of Government, Harvard University; Nancy L. Speaker: Peter Wehner, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Rosenblum, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Public Policy Center, Washington, DC. Discussant: Ethics in Politics and Government, Department J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery of Government, Harvard University; Noah R. Professor of the Practice of Religion and Feldman, Bemis Professor of International Law, Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School, Secretary Harvard Law School. for Health and Social Services, Archdiocese September 26, 2011 of Boston.

“The Enemy’s Two Bodies: The Jew, the Arab” February 6, 2012 Speaker: Gil Anidjar, Associate Professor, “The Many Transitions facing the Roman Catholic Department of Religion, Columbia University. Church in Cuba: Membership, Practice, Pastoral Discussant: Noah R. Feldman, Bemis Professor of Work, Church-State, and Political Regime “ International Law, Harvard Law School. Speaker: Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard October 3, 2011 Academy for International and Area Studies, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of “Religion, Rawls, and Reason: The Case of Soft Mexico, Department of Government, Vice Provost Authoritarianism in Singapore” for International Affairs, Harvard University. Speaker: Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor, Department of Sociology, The City University February 13, 2012 of New York. Discussant: Nancy L. Rosenblum, “Has the Islamic Republic Secularized? Religion- Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics State Relations and the Transformation of in Politics and Government, Department of Religious Authority in Contemporary Iran” Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Mirjam Künkler, Assistant Professor October 24, 2011 of Near East Studies, Princeton University. Discussant: Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin “How Judges Justify to Multiple Publics: Islam and Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought Law Across England, France, and Indonesia” and Life, Department of Near Eastern Languages Speaker: John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve and Civilizations, Harvard University. Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis. Discussant: Mark Tushnet, March 5, 2012 William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, “The Longue Durée of America’s ‘Mormon Harvard Law School. Moment’” October 31, 2011 Speaker: Kathleen Flake, Associate Professor of American Religious History, Vanderbilt University. “When the King Renounces His Divine Status: Discussant: Noah R. Feldman, Bemis Professor of Religious Transformation in the City of 201 Gods, International Law, Harvard Law School. Ile Ife, Nigeria” Speaker: Jacob Olupona, Professor of African March 26, 2012 Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School, “Political Theology and Secularization in Early- Professor of African and African American Modern Europe: A Conversation” Studies, Department of African and African Speaker: Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, American Studies, Harvard University. Columbia University

38 Seminars Discussant: Eric Nelson, Professor of Government, Seminar Chair Harvard University. Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of April 9, 2012 Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School. “Catholic Faith, Justice, and the Common Good: Thoughts on the Roles of Bishops and the Lay September 12, 2011 Faithful” Speaker: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor “The Role of Note-Taking in Intellectual Activity: of Jurisprudence, Director, James Madison Early Modern Europe and Beyond” Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Speaker: Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor Princeton University. of History, Harvard University. Discussant: Arthur Applbaum, Adams Professor September 19, 2011 of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School. “Norms of Expertise: Agricultural Production and the Environment in India” Science, Technology, and Society Speaker: Rajeswari Raina, Scientist, National Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), Council of Scientific and The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary September 26, 2011 conversations about contemporary issues “‘Genetics Is a Study in Faith’: The Disappeared of in science and technology that are relevant Latin America, Science as Development, and the to people in fields such as anthropology, Fragility of Identification” history, history of science, sociology, STS, law, Speaker: Lindsay Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow, government, public policy, the natural sciences, Center for Society and Genetics, University of and engineering. This seminar aims to engage not California, Los Angeles. only those who are working at the intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also October 3, 2011 those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest “Phase-Change: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of in exploring these areas together with social Solar Energy, 1946–” scientists and humanists. Speaker: Daniel Barber, Term Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard and Columbia College’s There has been growing interest among graduate Architecture Program, Columbia University. and postdoctoral students at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and October 17, 2011 more dissertation writers and recent graduates “Advice for the Courts? Science Studies, Criminal find themselves working on exciting topics that Justice, and the Forensic Science Crisis” intersect with STS at the edges of their respective Speaker: Gary Edmond, Australian Research home disciplines, and they are asking questions Council Future Fellow, Professor of Law, Director, that often require new analytic tools that the Program in Expertise, Evidence and Law, conventional disciplines do not necessarily offer. University of New South Wales. In an effort to meet the needs of the University’s doctoral students with an interest in STS, the October 24, 2011 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences now offers “Frozen Human Tissue and the Problem an STS secondary field. Secondary field students of Interdeterminancy” must present their research in the STS Circle as Speaker: Joanna Radin, PhD Candidate, the culmination of their studies in the field. History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 39 October 31, 2011 January 23, 2012

“Making Big Promises Come True? Articulating “Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for the Value of Synthetic Biology” Social Justice” Speaker: Emma Frow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Speaker: Catherine Bliss, Postdoctoral Fellow in Program on Science, Technology and Society Biomedicine, Medical Humanities, and Science (STS), Harvard Kennedy School, Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies, Howard Hughes Medical and Technology Studies, University of Edinburgh. Institute, Brown University.

November 7, 2011 January 30, 2012

“The Politics of the Dummy Light: Liberalism and “The Nature of Zoos: Captive Animal Networks in US Regulation of Technological Risk, 1960–1980” North America” Speaker: Lee Vinsel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program Speaker: Irus Braverman, Associate Professor of on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Law, Adjunct Professor of Geography, University Kennedy School and School of Engineering and of Buffalo, State University of New York. Applied Sciences, Harvard University. February 6, 2012 November 14, 2011 “Historians and Earthquakes in the Central “Between Cultural Transfer and National United States: Making the Past Clear When the Innovation Strategy: A Study of MIT’s Recent Future Isn’t” International Collaborations” Speaker: Conevery Bolton Valencius, Assistant Speaker: Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Postdoctoral Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts, Fellow, MIT Technology and Policy Program, MIT- University of Massachusetts, Boston. Portugal Program. February 13, 2012 November 21, 2011 “Not Fade Away: Race and the Politics of the “Body Building: Architectural Narratives of Meantime in Biotechnology Patenting and Dis/ability” Drug Development” Speaker: Wanda Liebermann, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Jonathan Kahn, Professor of Law, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Hamline University School of Law.

November 28, 2011 February 27, 2012

“Skilled Visions: Critical Ecologies of Belonging” “Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Self in the Speaker: Cristina Grasseni, David and Roberta Nuclear Age: Merle Tuve’s Cold War” Logie Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Speaker: Jessica Wang, Professor of History, Studies, Harvard University, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia. Social and Visual Anthropology, Bergamo March 5, 2012 University, Italy.

December 5, 2011 “Why Is the ‘Social,’ Not ‘Technology,’ the Central Subject in African(ist) History?” “Minds for Sale” Speaker: Clapperton Mavhunga, Assistant Speaker: Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School, Professor of Computer Science, March 19, 2012 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Co-founder, Berkman Center for Internet and “Pharma’s Key Opinion Leaders: Valuing Conflicts Society, Harvard University. of Interest and Independence”

40 Seminars Speaker: Sergio Sismondo, Professor, Department Tuesday Seminar on of Philosophy and Department of Sociology, Latin American Politics Queen’s University, Canada. The Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics March 26, 2012 allows faculty, visiting scholars, graduate students, and invited guests to present their “Life in the Fast Lane? Towards a Sociology of research on contemporary issues in Latin Technology and Time” America. The seminar series is open to the public Speaker: Judy Wajcman, Professor of and regularly attracts a diverse audience of Sociology, London School of Economics and academics, students, and other members of the Political Science. University community. April 2, 2012 Seminar Chairs “Dis•en•closing Science” Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard Academy Speaker: Stephen Hilgartner, Associate Professor, for International and Area Studies, Antonio Department of Science and Technology Studies, Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Cornell University. Department of Government, Vice Provost April 9, 2012 for International Affairs, Harvard University; Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, “Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and Department of Government, Harvard University; the Scientific Record” Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of Speaker: Gregg Mitman, Interim Director, Nelson International Development, Harvard Kennedy Institute for Environmental Studies, William School, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Coleman Professor of History of Science, Latin American Studies, Harvard University. University of Wisconsin, Madison. September 13, 2011 April 16, 2012 “Peru’s Surprising Left Turn: Understanding the “Politics of Maps in Israel” 2011 Presidential Election” Speaker: Christine Leuenberger, Senior Lecturer, Speaker: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Department of Science and Technology Studies, Government, Department of Government, Cornell University. Harvard University. April 23, 2012 September 20, 2011 “Consume, Therefore I Am: The Construction of “The Impact of the UN Women’s Rights Treaty the Genetic Citizen in the United States” in Chile” Speaker: Maggie Curnutte, Postdoctoral Fellow, Speaker: Lisa Baldez, Associate Professor of Program on Science, Technology and Society Government and Latin American, Latino and (STS) Harvard Kennedy School. Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College.

Study Group on the Future of the September 27, 2011 European Union “Construction of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture” See Program on Transatlantic Relations, page 90. Speaker: Juan Ossio Acuña, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, Transatlantic Relations Seminar Harvard University, Professor of Social Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. See Program on Transatlantic Relations, page 90.

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“Democratic Consolidation in the Americas in “Why Did Mexican Drug Traffickers Become So Hard Times: A 26-Nation View from the Americas Violent? Trends and Explanations to a Drug War” Barometer 2010” Speaker: Viridiana Rios, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Mitch Seligson, Professor of Political Department of Government, Fellow, Harvard Science and of Sociology, Vanderbilt University. Kennedy School.

October 18, 2011 February 7, 2012

“The Cold Wars as a Great Zoo: Hawks, Doves, “Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Owls, Bears, Dragons, and Pitirres” Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes” Speaker: Rafael Hernandez, Wilbur Marvin Speaker: Ana de la O, Assistant Professor, Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Department of Political Science, Yale University. Latin American Studies, Harvard University, February 21, 2012 Editor, Temas.

October 25, 2011 “The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Success and Failure in Latin America” “The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future Speaker: Brandon P. Van Dyck, PhD Candidate, of Latin American Industrialization” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Kevin Gallagher, Associate Professor of February 28, 2012 International Relations, Boston University.

November 1, 2011 “Cuba’s Post-Revolutionary Regime and Market- Socialism” “The Bog and the Beast: Museums, the Nation, Speaker: Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard and the World” Academy for International and Area Studies, Speaker: Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Wellesley College, Co-Director, Transnational Mexico, Department of Government, Vice Provost Studies Initiative, Hauser Center for Nonprofit for International Affairs, Harvard University. Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School. March 6, 2012 November 8, 2011 “The Long Shadow of Juan Domingo Perón” “Including Outsiders: Social Policy Expansion in Speaker: Marysa Navarro, Resident Scholar, David Latin America” Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Speaker: Candelaria Garay, Assistant Professor of Harvard University, Professor, Department of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. History, Dartmouth College.

November 15, 2011 March 20, 2012

“Big Business, Democracy, and the Politics of “Subnational Undemocratic Regime Continuity Competition in Mexico” after National Democratization: Evidence from Speaker: Strom Thacker, Professor of Argentina and Mexico” International Relations and Political Science, Speaker: Agustina Giraudy, PhD, Department of Boston University. Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 29, 2011 March 27, 2012 “Understanding Argentina’s 2011 Presidential Election” “Student Protests in Chile: Wider Significance and Speaker: Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Political Impacts” Science, Columbia University.

42 Seminars Speaker: Peter Siavelis, Professor, Department analytical perspective. Speakers include scholars, of Political Science, Director, Latin American and journalists, artists, parliamentarians, ministers, and Latino Studies Program, Wake Forest University. diplomats from Turkey, the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. April 3, 2012 Seminar Chairs “Democratic Consolidation in Latin America” Speaker: Raul Madrid, Associate Professor of Lenore G. Martin, Louise Doherty Wyant Government, University of Texas, Austin. Professor and Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Emmanuel April 10, 2012 College; Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor “Jobs for the Boys: Patronage and the State in of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Comparative Perspective” Harvard University. Speaker: Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason October 12, 2011 Professor of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, Director, David “Ad Hominem Arguments and the Coming Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Debates on the New Constitution in Turkey” Harvard University. Speaker: Murat Borovali, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, April 17, 2012 Associate Professor of International Relations, “The Olympics, the State and (Dis)organized Istanbul Bilgi University, Ankara. Crime in Rio de Janeiro” October 19, 2011 Speaker: Robert Gay, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Director, Toor “Turkey and the EU in the Context of the Cummings Center for International Studies and Changing Middle East” Liberal Arts (CISLA), Connecticut College. Speaker: Mario Zucconi, Lecturer in Public Policy and International Affairs, Woodrow April 24, 2012 Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, “Vote Buying, Healthcare, and Sterilization Princeton University. in Brazil” November 2, 2011 Speaker: Simeon Nichter, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of “Building Bridges to Building Fences: Turkey’s California at San Diego. Transforming Migration Policy” Speaker: Basak Kale, Assistant Professor, Turkey in the Modern World Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, German With the increasingly important role of Turkey Marshall Fund Fellow, 2011. in both the international and academic arenas, the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World is November 8, 2011 a place for candid and constructive dialogue among faculty and students of Harvard University “Where is Turkey Heading?” and the surrounding scholarly community. The Speaker: Cuneyt Ulsever, Writer, Journalist, seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach Hurriyet Newspaper. on subjects such as culture, religion, the arts, November 16, 2011 science, politics, and history. Scholars introduce their research findings for rigorous critique often “Deciphering Denial: Ottoman Past, Turkish in preparation for publication. The co-chairs try Present and the Collective Violence against to balance complex topics and points of view, Armenians, 1789–2009” allowing for in-depth study of current issues and occasionally reaching back into history for

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 43 Speaker: Muge Gocek, Associate Professor of and demographic, religious and cultural, or Sociology and Women’s Studies, University political and military. In the process, global of Michigan. history has drawn on the expertise of political scientists, sociologists, art historians, economists, November 29, 2011 anthropologists, and others. “Turkey and Its Neighborhood Foreign Policy” Harvard University’s concentration of scholars Speaker: Kemal Kirisci, Professor of International who are interested in this approach to the Relations and Jean Monnet Chair in European study of the human past is among the greatest Integration, Department of Political Science anywhere. At the same time, the study of global and International Relations, Bogaziçi University, history at the University lacks any programmatic Istanbul. cohesion and profile as a field. Sven Beckert, January 25, 2012 Laird Bell Professor of History, and Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, “Turkey and the Obscure Object of Violence” with the encouragement of Beth A. Simmons, Speaker: Ahmet Altan, Editor-in-Chief and Lead Weatherhead Center director, created what they Columnist, Taraf. hope will be an institutional framework for global February 1, 2012 history at Harvard. Their goal is to make Harvard one of the world’s leading centers for research “Turkey’s Relations with Iran Under the Justice and teaching in global history. and Development Party” Speaker: Cigdem H. Benam, Visiting Postdoctoral The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, (WIGH) was the first of the WCFIA’s planned Harvard University. “research clusters” designed to build on and focus its Faculty Associates’ leadership in new April 4, 2012 directions for international study. The Center provided funding for a three-year program “European Energy Security and Cross-Border and is the institutional home for the program. Pipelines” As co-directors, Professors Beckert and Maier Speaker: Nusret Comert, Advanced Leadership organized a steering committee among the Fellow, Advanced Leadership Initiative, many faculty in history and the social sciences Harvard University. who have already expressed interest in the new WCFIA Roundtable on World Affairs initiative and will seek to raise outside support so that it can continue on a long-term basis. The See Fellows Program, page 74. team has also provided grants to support student summer research travel. Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Global history is in fact a global activity, and with the Weatherhead Initiative to focus its own Global history is one of the leading new contributions, Harvard can play a key role in approaches in recent years that has helped helping to shape this cooperative endeavor. to transform the study of the past. The contemporary trends summarized under the Principal Investigators term globalization have lent urgency to research Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, that examines historical processes, networks, Department of History, Harvard University. identities, and events across the boundaries of the nation states that traditionally served as the Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall privileged framework for much of the discipline. Professor of History, Department of History, Historians worldwide have contributed to exciting Harvard University. research on the trends that so many societies have undergone together—whether economic

44 Seminars September 12, 2011 development in the nations of sub-Saharan Africa can be predicted by their historical Global History Special Event involvement in the slave trades, homicide rates in Western and developing nations over time, the “Haiti as Pivot: The Politics of the Second Slavery historical sources of institutions accounting for in the USA, Cuba, and Brazil” economic development, and the role of slavery Speaker: Robin Blackburn, Professor, Department in explaining familial instability among blacks of of Sociology, University of Essex. the Western hemisphere. The workshop is open May 3, 2012 to all departments of the University, and some participants are invited from other institutions. Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Lecture Seminar Chair “The Geopolitics of British Imperialism, 1830–1960” Speaker: John Darwin, Professor of History, Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor Nufflield College, Oxford, Author, After Tamerlane: of Sociology, Department of Sociology, The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400–2000 Harvard University. (2007) and The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall September 9, 2011 of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (2009). Organizational Meeting A joint session with the Harvard International and Global History Seminar, page 28. September 23, 2011

May 4, 2012 “Why Nations Fail” Speaker: Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts “Is Global History Empire History?” Institute of Technology. Speaker: John Darwin, Professor of History, October 7, 2011 Nufflield College, Oxford, Author, After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400–2000 “History and Economic Development within the (2007) and The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall African Continent” of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (2009). Speaker: Nathan Nunn, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University. A joint session with the Harvard International and Global History Seminar, page 28. October 21, 2011

Workshop on Culture, History, “A History of Violence” and Society Speaker: Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor, Johnstone Family Professor, The Workshop on Culture, History, and Society Department of Psychology, Harvard University. (Sociology 317) provides a forum for the November 4, 2011 exploration of new developments in historical social science—especially in interdisciplinary “Historicizing Agency” scholarship in the fields of history, sociology, Speaker: Julia Adams, Chair, Department of and economic history. The workshop’s primary Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Professor methodological goal is to initiate a discussion on in International and Area Studies, Joseph C. what constitutes acceptable historical evidence Fox Director, Fox International Fellowships, in each of the social sciences, while its main Co-director, Center for Comparative Research, substantive goal is to explore how the past Yale University. influences the present. By their very nature, such undertakings are inherently international November 18, 2011 and comparative. We propose to explore issues “Slavery and Sleeping Sickness: The such as the degree to which current levels of Effect of Trypanosomiasis on African

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 45 Agricultural Development” Invitation Only Speaker: Marcella Alsan, PhD Candidate, Communist and Post-Communist Department of Economics, Harvard University. Countries Seminar “Institutions, Economic Interests and Policy From the 1970s to the 1990s, countries with Preferences: Insights from the Political Economy communist political systems faced many similar of Foreign Direct Investment in India” challenges but responded in remarkably different Speaker: Jason Jackson, PhD Candidate, Political ways. By the beginning of the 1990s, communist Economy of Development, Massachusetts regimes survived only in Cuba and East Asia. Institute of Technology. Nearly all communist and post-communist January 27, 2012 countries now confront issues of political legitimacy, economic growth and performance, “Slavery, Immigration, and the Economic and national and ethnic identities. The communist Development of the Americas, 1400–1900” and post-communist worlds pose stunning Speaker: Stanley Engerman, Visiting Professor challenges in the redesign of the international of Economics, Harvard University, John Munro system: China is an emerging superpower, North Professor of Economics, University of Rochester. Korea is a persistent threat to peace in East February 10, 2012 Asia, Russia is seeking a new international role and countries of East Central Europe play the “Lost in Translation: The Qualification of Expertise increasingly important role within the European in US Courts” Union. Harvard University has numerous faculty Speaker: Marion Fourcade, Associate Professor, associated with various departments, research Department of Sociology, University of California, centers, and institutes, who work on nearly all of Berkeley. these countries and issues. Each year, a faculty seminar on these topics meets three or four February 24, 2012 times under the sponsorship of the Weatherhead “Explaining the Rise of Complex Societies in Center and the Davis Center for Russian and Human History: A Cultural Evolution Approach” Eurasian Studies. Each session is deliberately Speaker: Peter Turchin, Professor, Department comparative, seeking to address themes that cut of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University across at least two countries. of Connecticut. Seminar Chairs March 30, 2012 Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg “State Agency and Network-Self: A Relational Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Approach to the Historical Sociology of Japan” Chair, Department of Government, Harvard Speaker: Eiko Ikegami, Professor of Sociology, University; Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Chair, Department of Sociology, New School for Harvard Academy for International and Area Social Research. Studies, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Department of Government, April 6, 2012 Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University; Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of “Defining ‘The Eternal Fitness of Things’: Political Government, Department of Government, Repertoire Persistence and Path-Breaking in Harvard University; Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry South Texas, 1850–2010” Rosovsky Professor of Government, Department Speaker: Seth Pipkin, PhD Candidate, Institute of Government, Harvard University, Director, for Work and Employment Research, Sloan Harvard-Yenching Institute. School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. October 18, 2011

“New Voices: Emerging Research on Communist and Post-Communist Countries”

46 Seminars Speakers: Patrick Hamm, PhD Candidate, May 3, 2012 Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Stanislav Markus, Assistant Professor, Department “Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Age” of Political Science, University of Chicago; Speakers: Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Ruxandra Paul, PhD Candidate, Department of Professor of European Studies; Michèle Lamont, Government, Harvard University; Meg Rithmire, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Business School. Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African December 1, 2011 American Studies.

“Ukraine at the Crossroads” Faculty Discussion Group on Speakers: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Comparative Politics Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Chair, Department of Government, Harvard University hosts a critical mass of Harvard University; Oxana Shevel, Assistant professors with interests in comparative politics. Professor of Political Science, Tuft University; Some study specific countries or issues, others Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo Hrushevs’ky focus on key themes such as political economy, Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, Harvard and several emphasize work on formal models of University; Nadiya Kravet, Eugene and Daymel politics. The principal purpose of the Comparative Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Politics Seminar is to facilitate discussion among Research Institute. faculty who have different approaches to the study of the subject. To advance this objective, April 11, 2012 the seminar distributes papers prior to each “Collective Memories of the Communist Past: meeting in order to foster discussion, comments, Between Trauma and Nostalgia” criticisms, and suggestions. There are no Speakers: Jie Li, College Fellow, Department formal presentations. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Seminar Chairs Harvard University; Cathy Frierson, Senior Fellow, Davis Center, Harvard University, Professor of Nahomi Ichino, Assistant Professor, Department History, University of New Hampshire; Hue-Tam of Government, Harvard University; Jorge I. Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino- Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard Academy for Vietnamese History, Department of History, International and Area Studies, Antonio Madero Harvard University. Professor for the Study of Mexico, Department of Government, Vice Provost for International Director’s Faculty Seminar Affairs, Harvard University.

The Director’s Faculty Seminar, launched formally December 1, 2011 in 2004–2005, provides an opportunity for Faculty Associates of the Weatherhead Center “Beyond Patronage: Violent Struggle, Ruling Party to present their emerging academic research to Cohesion, and Authoritarian Durability” members of the Center’s scholarly community. Speaker: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Generally held once each semester, the seminar Government, Department of Government, offers a forum for the careful discussion and Harvard University. analysis of book manuscripts and other works March 5, 2012 in progress. “Conditional Cooperation, International Seminar Chair Organizations, and Climate Change” Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, Speaker: Dustin Tingley, Assistant Professor Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, of Government, Department of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. Harvard University.

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“Using Post-treatment Variables to Establish “What Lessons for Economic Development Can Upper Bounds on Causal Effects: Assessing We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?,” April 2011 Executive Selection Procedures in New Authors: Jeremy Edwards, University of Democracies” Cambridge; Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Speaker: Nahomi Ichino, Assistant Professor, Cambridge. Department of Government, Harvard University; September 13, 2011 Adam Glynn, Associate Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Public Spending, Public Deficits, and Government Coalitions,” December 2010 Faculty Discussion Group on Authors: Andre Blais, University of Montreal; Political Economy Jiyoon Kim, University of Montreal; Martial The Faculty Discussion Group on Political Foucault, University of Montreal and CIRANO. Economy, co-sponsored by the Weatherhead September 20, 2011 Center and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and chaired by Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield “Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Professor of International Peace, holds informal Evidence from Africa,” June 2011 luncheon meetings on Tuesdays. Papers on a Authors: Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University; wide range of topics in political economy are Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College. sent to approximately fifty faculty members from September 27, 2011 various schools and departments. A free-wheeling discussion of the paper ensues among the faculty “Why Has Britain Fewer Marginal Seats than It who attend. Used To?” 2011 Authors: Robert Hodgson, University of Exeter; Seminar Chairs John Maloney, University of Exeter. Jeffrey Frieden, Stanfield Professor of October 11, 2011 International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University. “The Feudal Revolution: Political Stability and the Rise of Europe,” 2011 July 26, 2011 Authors: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University; “Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Eric Chaney, Assistant Professor of Economics, Preferences,” January 2009 Department of Economics, Harvard University. Authors: Pauline Grosjean, University of October 18, 2011 California, Berkeley; Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics. “Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight Over the McFadden Act of 1927,” August 2011 August 9, 2011 Authors: Raghuram G. Rajan, Booth School “Do Soccer Players Play the Mixed-Strategy of Business, University of Chicago; Rodney Nash Equilibrium?” Ramcharan, International Monetary Fund. Authors: Ofer H. Azar, Department of Business October 25, 2011 Administration, Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion “What Really Happened During the Glorious University of the Negev; Michael Bar-Eli, Revolution?,” July 2011 Department of Business Administration, Guilford Authors: Steven Pincus, Yale University; Glazer School of Business and Management, James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

48 Seminars November 1, 2011 Political Change,” October 2011 Authors: Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of “Economics and Reality,” July 2011 International Peace, Department of Government, Authors: Herald Uhlig, University of Chicago. Harvard University; David Lake, University November 8, 2011 of California, San Diego; Michael Nicholson, University of California, San Diego; Aditya “Electoral Budget Cycles in the EMU: A Challenge Ranganath, University of California, San Diego. to Context Conditionality,” April 20, 2011 January 17, 2012 Authors: Joachim Wehner, London School of Economics and Political Science. “Politics with(out) Coase,” 2011 November 15, 2011 Authors: Barbara Luppi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Francesco Parisi, University of “Do Financial Crises Always Raise Inequality? Minnesota, University of Bologna. Some Evidence from History,” Sept 13, 2011 January 24, 2012 Authors: Michael D. Bordo, Hoover Institution, Rutger’s University; Christopher M. Meissner, “Development and Religious Polarization: The University of California, Davis. Emergence of Reform and Ultra-Orthodox November 22, 2011 Judaism,” 2011 Authors: Jean-Paul Carvalho, George “Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? Mason University; Mark Koyama, George The View from the Stock Market,” September 2011 Mason University. Authors: Christoph Moser, ETH Zurich, KOF January 31, 2012 Swiss Economic Institute; Andrew K. Rose, Haas School of Business Administration, University of “Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus California, Berkeley. Expectations,” June 23, 2011 November 29, 2011 Authors: David Rothschild, Yahoo! Research; Justin Wolfers, the Wharton School, University of “The Costs of Political Influence: Firm-Level Pennsylvania. Evidence from Developing Countries,” September February 14, 2012 2011 Authors: Raj M. Desai, Edmund A. Walsh “Pirates of the Mediterranean: An Empirical School of Foreign Service and Department Investigation of Bargaining with Transaction of Government, Georgetown University, The Costs,” December 22, 2011 Brookings Institution; Anders Olofsgard, Edmund Authors: Attila Ambrus, Duke University; Eric A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Department Chaney, Assistance Professor of Economics, of Economics, Georgetown University, Stockholm Department of Economics, Harvard University; Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm Igor Salitskiy, Stanford University. School of Economics. February 21, 2012 December 20, 2011 “Top Incomes in the Long Run of History,” 2011 “Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Authors: Anthony B. Atkinson, University of Corruption across US States,” November 2011 Oxford, London School of Economics and Authors: Filipe R. Campante, Assistant Professor Political Science; Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; of Economics; Emmanuel Saez, University of Quoc-Anh Do, School of Economics, Singapore California, Berkeley. Management University. February 28, 2012 January 3, 2012 “The Mythology of Game Theory,” 2011 “Crisis Politics: Uncertainty, Relative Prices, and

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 49 Authors: Matthew D. McCubbins, University of Authors: Gilles Saint-Paul, Toulouse School of Southern California; Mark Turner, Case Western Economics, France. Reserve University; Nick Weller, University of May 1, 2012 Southern California.

March 6, 2012 “Fiscal Rules: Theoretical Issues and Historical Experiences,” March 2012 “Labor Supply of Politicians,” January 2012 Authors: Charles Wyplosz, Graduate Institute of Authors: Raymond Fisman, Columbia University; International Studies, Geneva. Nikolaj A. Harmon, Princeton University; Emir May 8, 2012 Kumenica, University of Chicago; Inger Munk, DONG Energy. “Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great March 13, 2012 Depression,” February 2012 Authors: Alan de Bromhead, University of Oxford; “Turning Points in Leadership: Shipping Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Technology in the Portuguese and Dutch Berkeley; Kevin H. O’Rourke, University of Oxford. Merchant Empires,” July 28, 2011 May 15, 2012 Authors: Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University.

March 20, 2012 “United States Then, Europe Now,” February 1, 2012 “Resolving Debt Overhang: Political Constraints in Authors: Thomas J. Sargent, New York University. the Aftermath of Financial Crisis,” February 2012 May 29, 2012 Authors: Atif Mian, University of California, Berkeley; Amir Sufi, University of Chicago; “‘The Big Sort’ That Wasn’t: A Skeptical Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia. Reexamination,” April 2012 March 27, 2012 Authors: Samuel J. Abrams, Sarah Lawrence College; Morris P. Fiorina, Stanford University. “Political Economy: Success or Failure?,” June 5, 2012 December 2011 Authors: Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich. “Sensitivity to Issue Framing on Trade Policy April 10, 2012 Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment,” 2012 “The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Authors: M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University; Africa,” November 2011 Pablo M. Pinto, Columbia University; Martin Authors: Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University; Ardanaz, Columbia University. Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College. June 12, 2012 April 3, 2012 “Sailing the Water’s Edge: Where Domestic “Why Don’t We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Politics Meets Foreign Policy,” 2012 Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Authors: Helen Milner, Princeton University; Income Taxation around the World,” November Dustin Tingley, Assistant Professor, Department 2011 of Government, Harvard University. Authors: Martin Ardanaz, Columbia University; June 19, 2012 Carlos Scartascini, Inter-American Development Bank. “On the Political Economy of Educational April 24, 2012 Vouchers,” April 2012 Authors: Dennis N. Epple, Carnegie Mellon “Toward a Political Economy of Macroeconomic University; Richard Romano, University of Florida. Thinking,” May 23, 2011

50 Seminars June 26, 2012 Seminar Chairs

“Explaining Charter School Effectiveness,” April Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard Academy 12, 2012 for International and Area Studies, Antonio Authors: Joshua D. Angrist, Massachusetts Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Institute of Technology; Parag A. Pathak, Department of Government, Vice Provost for Massachusetts Institute of Technology; International Affairs, Harvard University; Frances Christopher R. Walters, Massachusetts Institute of Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Associate Technology. Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University, Associate Professor of Political July 24, 2012 Science, University of Notre Dame; Steven “Crossing Party Lines: The Effects of Information Levitsky, Professor of Government, Department on Redistributive Politics,” April 2012 of Government, Harvard University. Authors: Katherine Casey, Stanford University. October 4, 2011 July 31, 2012 “Education, Wealth of Nations, and Political “The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Tolerance: A Multilevel Analysis of Twenty-six Inequality in OECD Countries,” April 2012 Countries in the Americas” Authors: Philipp Doerrenberg, University of Speaker: Mitchell Seligson, Centennial Professor Cologne; Andreas Peichl, University of Cologne. of Political Science and Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University. August 7, 2012 November 14, 2011 “How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?,” May 2012 “Labor Mobilization and Merit Pay for Teachers in Authors: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University; Brazil” Romain Wacziarg, Anderson School of Speaker: Leslie Finger, PhD Candidate, Management, University of California, Department of Government, Harvard University. Los Angeles. “The Paradox of Adversity: A Theory of New Party August 28, 2012 Success and Failure, with Evidence from the Latin American New Left” “The Effects of Democratization on Public Goods Speaker: Brandon Van Dyck, PhD Candidate, and Redistribution: Evidence from China,” May 2012 Department of Government, Harvard University. Authors: Monica Martinez-Bravo, Johns Hopkins University; Gerard Padro i Miquel, London School November 28, 2011 of Economics and Political Science; Nancy Qian, “Bringing Material Effects Back In: Sensitivity to Yale University; Yang Yao, Peking University. Issue Framing on Trade Policy Preferences” Graduate Workshop on Latin Speaker: M. Victoria Murillo, Professor of American Politics Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University. In monthly meetings, participants discuss their February 27, 2012 research on issues related to Latin American politics. Covering a range of topics including “Why Party Organization Still Matters: The political economy, civil conflict, regime change, Workers’ Party in Northeastern Brazil” and democratic institutions, the seminar is Speaker: Brandon Van Dyck, PhD Candidate, designed particularly to provide a forum for Department of Government, Harvard University. graduate students to present and receive feedback on their scholarly work. The seminar also includes “Setting the Table for a Drug War” occasional presentations by visiting faculty whose Speaker: Viridiana Ríos, PhD Candidate, research is of particular interest to students. Department of Government, Harvard University.

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“Drawing the Battle Lines: Political Cleavage Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, Formation in Post-Authoritarian Latin America Clarence Dillon Professor of International and Eastern Europe” Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard Speaker: Andrei Roman, PhD Candidate, University; Rachel Brewster, Assistant Professor Department of Government, Harvard University. of Law, Harvard Law School; Gabriella Blum, Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and “Exploring the Roots of the Chilean Winter: Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law School. How Salient Issue Discontent Shapes Political Participation” September 20, 2011 Speaker: Leslie Finger, PhD Candidate, “Bargaining over BITs: Development and Department of Government, Harvard University. Consequences of a ‘Hands-Tying’ Regime for April 2, 2012 International Investment” Speaker: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead “Seguro Popular: An Evaluation of Impact on Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of Infrastructure and Medication Supplies” International Affairs, Department of Government, Speaker: Diane Kuhn, PhD Candidate, Department Harvard University. of Government, Harvard University. October 4, 2011 “A Take on Redistribution: Redistributive Preferences, Property Takings, and Political “Do BITs Form an International Regime and Does Beliefs in Latin America” It Matter?” Speaker: Alisha Holland, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Jeswald Salacuse, Henry J. Braker Department of Government, Harvard University. Professor of Law, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. April 30, 2012 October 18, 2011 “Minority Government in Presidential Systems: Institutional and Political Determinants” “The Rule of Law and Development: In Search of Speaker: Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo, Professor the Holy Grail” of Political Science, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Speaker: Michael Trebilcock, Distinguished Políticos, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro University Professor, Professor of Law, University (IESP-UERJ). of Toronto.

International Law and November 1, 2011 International Relations Seminar “Clash of Paradigms: Actors and Analogies Shaping the Investment Treaty System” The International Law and International Relations Speaker: Anthea Roberts, Lecturer in Law, Seminar is co-chaired by Professors Gabby Co-founder, Transnational Law Project, London Blum and Rachel Brewster from Harvard Law School of Economics and Political Science. School, and Professor Beth A. Simmons from the Department of Government. The seminar November 15, 2011 meets over lunch to discuss research relating to international law within the context of the social “Who Cares about Human Rights? The Supply and sciences and international affairs. The seminar Demand of International Human Rights Law” provides a setting in which to present and discuss Speaker: Joel P. Trachtman, Professor of participants’ research as well as cutting-edge International Law, the Fletcher School of Law and extramural research. Diplomacy, Tufts University. November 29, 2011

“The Doctrinal Paradox and Adjudication in

52 Seminars International Law” Speaker: Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law, Speaker: Adam Chilton, JD/PhD Candidate, Harvard Law School. Department of Government, Harvard University April 17, 2012 and Harvard Law School; Dustin Tingley, Assistant Professor of Government, Department “Unilateral Enforcement and International of Government, Harvard University. Corruption: The FCPA’s Extraterritorial Reach” January 31, 2012 Speaker: William Magnuson, Climenko Fellow, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School. “The ECHR as Self-Enforcing, Cost-Imposing, Reciprocal Human Rights Regime between Program on Global Society and Established Democracies” Security Seminar Speaker: William Phelan, Lecturer, Department of See Program on Global Society Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin. and Security, page 89. February 14, 2012 Research Workshop in “Making Cooperation Work: Informal Governance Comparative Politics in the European Union and Beyond” Speaker: Mareike Kleine, John F. Kennedy Supported initially by a grant from the Mellon Memorial Fellow (2011–2012), the Minda de Foundation, this workshop is now funded by Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard grants from the Weatherhead Center and the University, Lecturer in EU Politics, London School Office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts of Economics and Political Science. and Sciences. Graduate students who receive academic credit for their participation and the February 28, 2012 faculty leading the workshop present their own work-in-progress on issues in comparative “A Partial Window on Compliance: Transparency politics, with other workshop members serving and Human Rights” as discussants. A key feature of the seminar is Speaker: Cosette Creamer, PhD Candidate, its commitment to the notion of research as Department of Government, Harvard University; a collective enterprise in which participants Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, benefit from sharing their academic work and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, receiving feedback. Graduate students from all Department of Government, Harvard University. years of study, including their first and second March 7, 2012 years, are welcome in the workshop. The seminar occasionally invites other scholars to present “Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, their work. Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights” Speaker: Zachary Elkins, Associate Professor, Seminar Chairs Department of Government, University of Texas, Prerna Singh, Assistant Professor, Department Austin. of Government, Harvard University; Daniel March 20, 2012 Ziblatt, Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. “From Consent to Consultation: International Law in an Age of Global Public Goods” September 14, 2011 Speaker: Nico Krisch, Professor of International Practice Job Talk “Initiating Insurgency: Rebel Law, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. Formation and Viability in Uganda” April 3, 2012 Speaker: Janet Lewis, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “The Next Generation of Trade and Environment Disputes” “The Politics of Child Labor: A Prospectus Memo”

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 53 Speaker: Emily Clough, PhD Candidate, October 12, 2011 Department of Government, Harvard University. Practice Job Talk Discussant: Amanda Pinkston, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Kristen Looney, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University.

September 21, 2011 “Developing Standards: The Evolution of Labor Market Institutions in Latin American and Practice Job Talk “Measuring the Effect of East Asia” Violence on Voter Registration” Speaker: Claire Schwartz Litwin, PhD Candidate, Speaker: J. Andrew Harris, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Brad Holland, PhD Candidate, “War and Democratization: Political Department of Government, Harvard University. Consequences of Mass Mobilization for Interstate War” October 19, 2011 Speaker: Joan Cho, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Practice Job Talk Speaker: Jenn Larso, PhD Candidate, Department Discussant: Iza Ding, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. of Government, Harvard University. “Conservatives Beyond Borders: An Exploratory September 28, 2011 Study of Transnational Conservative Networks, The American-Israeli Case” Practice Job Talk “Politicians and Foreign Policy: Speaker: Noam Gidron, PhD Candidate, The Rise of National Security Debate in Election Department of Government, Harvard University. Campaigns in Japan” Speaker: Amy Catalinac, PhD, Department of Discussant: Chiara Superti, PhD Candidate, Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University.

Prospectus Memo “Decentralization and Local October 26, 2011 Democracy in Benin/West Africa” Speaker: Amanda Pinkston, PhD Candidate, Practice Job Talk “Political Remittances: The Department of Government, Harvard University. Impact of Transnational Migration on Political Systems and Voting in the Migrants’ Homelands” Discussant: Julie Faller, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Ruxandra Paul, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University.

OCtober 5, 2011 “Sources of Extremism: Jihadi Ideology among Islamic Clerics” Practice Job Talk “Veiled Political Questions: Speaker: Richard Nielsen, PhD Candidate, Islamic Dress, Constitutionalism, and the Department of Government, Harvard University. Ascendance of Courts” Speaker: Jill Goldenziel, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Noam Gidron, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University.

“Divergent Preferences for Redistribution November 2, 2011 in China” Speaker: Jennifer Pan, PhD Candidate, Prospectus Memo “Two to Quango: Ministers and Department of Government, Harvard University. Ministries in Ghana” Speaker: Joseph Luna, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Noah Nathan, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Christopher Rhodes, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

54 Seminars “Organizational Determinants of Church Discussant: Volha Charnysh, PhD Candidate, Political Orientation” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Christopher Rhodes, PhD Candidate, january 25, 2012 Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Rich Nielsen, PhD Candidate, Organizational meeting for spring semester Department of Government, Harvard University. No presentations

November 9, 2011 February 1, 2012

“States, Inequality, and Violence: Examining “Economic Globalization and the Decline of Territorial Differences in Rule of Law” Electoral Turnout: Compensation, Constraint, Speaker: Brad Holland, PhD Candidate, and Ownership” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: John Marshall, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Silvana Toska, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University, Discussant: Oliver Bevan, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Italy: A Case of ‘Vertical Contamination’ at the Intra-Party Dimension? Women Regional No talk title Representation and the National Electoral Trends Speaker: Brandon Van Dyck, PhD Candidate, in Italy from 1987 to 2010” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Chiara Superti, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Leslie Finger, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Ashley Anderson, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. February 8, 2012

November 16, 2011 “Social Welfare and Authoritarianism: Explaining Variation in Welfare Provision among “The Politics of Punishment: Dispute Resolution Chinese Localities” Institutions among Foreign and Local Traders in Speaker: Jennifer Pan, PhD Candidate, West Africa” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Shelby Grossman, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Iza Ding, PhD Candidate, Department Department of Government, Harvard University. of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Emily Clough, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “A Take on Property: Distributive Beliefs, Political Ideology, and Property Seizure in Latin America” “On Civil War and the Politics of Location in Speaker: Alisha Holland, PhD Candidate, Resource Rich States” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Graeme Blair, Princeton University. Discussant: Noah Nathan, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Jonathan Phillips, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. February 15, 2012 November 30, 2011 “Neoliberalsm and Economic Theory” Speaker: Ashley Anderson, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Oliver Bevan, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Jill Goldenziel, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Volha Charnysh, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University.

“Domino Theory: How Crises of Legitimacy Lead “How Did Europe Democratize? Views from the to Cascading Revolutions” Sovereign Bond Market” Speaker: Silvana Toska, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Daniel Ziblatt, Professor of Government, Department of Government, Cornell University. Department of Government, Harvard Univesrity; Aditya Dasgupta, PhD Candidate, Department

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 55 of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Speaker: Volha Charnysh, PhD Candidate, Noam Gidron, PhD Candidate, Department of Department of Government, Harvard University. Government, Harvard University. Discussant: John Marshall, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. February 22, 2012 No talk title “Local Democracy and Public Goods Provision Speaker: Nathan Cisneros, Massachusetts in Benin” Institute of Technology. Discussant: Tess Wise, Speaker: Amanda Pinkston, PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. Harvard University. Discussant: Daniel Koss, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. March 28, 2012

“In Defense of Primaries” “Submission as Authentic Consciousness: Female Speaker: Chiara Superti, PhD Candidate, Disempowerment in Saudi Arabia” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Silvana Toska, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Nahomi Ichino, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Jeffrey Javed, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. February 29, 2012 “The Price Transparency Project” Conference Presentations Speaker: Emily Clough, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor Department of Government, Harvard University. of European Studies, Harvard University. Discussant: Nathan Cisneros, Massachusetts “Separated at Birth: The Social and Institutional Institute of Technology. Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy April 5, 2012 in Pakistan” Speaker: Maya Tudor, Oxford University. “Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Rural Ghana” Discussant: Evann Smith, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Noah Nathan, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. March 7, 2012 Discussant: Alisha Holland, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Roots of the Chilean Winter: How Salient Issue Attitudes Shape Political Participation” “The Politics of Public Service Delivery: Evidence Speaker: Leslie Finger, PhD Candidate, from a Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Department of Government, Harvard University. in India” Discussant: Shelby Grossman, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Aditya Dasgupta, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Prerna Singh, Assistant Professor, “Compromising State: Tailoring Government to Department of Government, Harvard University. Local Society in Hinterland China” April 11, 2012 Speaker: Daniel Koss, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: No talk title Adi Dasgupta, PhD Candidate, Department of Speaker: Julie Faller, PhD Candidate, Department Government, Harvard University. of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: March 21, 2012 Joseph Luna, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Assigning Responsibility for a Global Financial Crisis” “Contested Experimentation: Center-Local Conflict and the Abolition of the Agricultural Tax in China”

56 Seminars Speaker: Jeffrey Javed, PhD Candidate, as well as visiting scholars and those from Department of Government, Harvard University. neighboring institutions, often present their own Discussant: Alex Hertel-Fernandez, PhD work at the workshop, comment on student Candidate, Department of Government, presentations, and offer their insights into Harvard University. scholarship within the field.

April 18, 2012 Seminar Chairs

No talk title Dustin Tingley, Assistant Professor of Speaker: Evann Smith, PhD Candidate, Government, Department of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. Harvard University. Discussant: Silvana Toska, PhD Candidate, September 8, 2011 Department of Government, Harvard University. Organizational Meeting, “The Global Diffusion of No talk title Law and the Case of Human Trafficking” Speakers: Nahomi Ichino, Assistant Professor, Speakers: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Department of Government, Harvard University; Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Adam Glynn, Associate Professor, Department Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: University; Brandon Stewart, PhD Candidate, Chiara Superti, PhD Candidate, Department of Department of Government, Harvard University. Government, Harvard University. September 15, 2011 April 25, 2012 “Initiating Insurgency: Rebel Formation and No talk title Viabilty in Uganda” Speaker: Iza Ding, PhD Candidate, Department Speaker: Janet Lewis, PhD Candidate, of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Department of Government, Harvard University, Ruxandra Paul, PhD Candidate, Department of Predoctoral Fellow, Program on Order, Conflict Government, Harvard University. and Violence, MacMillan Center for International “Emotional Appeals and Protest Mobilization and Area Studies, Yale University. during the Arab Spring” September 22, 2011 Speakers: Rich Nielsen, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University; “The Strategy Trap and the American Silvana Toska, PhD Candidate, Department of Indian Wars” Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Speaker: Jeff Friedman, PhD Candidate, Nils Hagerdal, PhD Candidate, Harvard Committee on Public Policy, Harvard University. Kennedy Schhol. Discussant: Stephen Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Research Workshop in Department of Government, Harvard University, International Relations Harvard College Professor.

The Research Workshop in International Relations September 29, 2011 (Government 3005b) is sponsored by the Department of Government to address ongoing “Costly Peace: A New Rationalist Explanation research in the field of international relations. for War” Speaker: Andrew Coe, PhD Candidate, The workshop is primarily devoted to presenting Department of Government, Harvard University. and discussing dissertation proposals and other October 6, 2011 scholarly work by advanced graduate students studying international relations in the Department “Pork to Policy: The Rise of National Security in of Government and in related departments and Elections in Japan” centers at Harvard. Faculty within the University,

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 57 Speaker: Amy Catalinac, PhD, Department of University, Lecturer in EU Politics, London School Government, Harvard University. of Economics and Political Science. Discussant: Akos Lada, PhD Candidate in Political Economy October 13, 2011 and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

“Punishment and Denial in the North December 1, 2011 Caucasus: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Coercive Counterinsurgency” “Regional Organizations and International Politics: Speaker: Yuri Zhukov, PhD Candidate, Trading Asian Development Bank Loans for United Department of Government, Harvard University. Nations Security Council Votes” Discussant: Rich Nielson, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Daniel Lim, PhD Candidate, Department Department of Government, Harvard University. of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Jee Hye Kim, PhD Candidate, Department of October 20, 2011 Government, Harvard University.

“Fighting for Status” January 26, 2012 Speaker: Jonathan Renshon, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?” October 27, 2011 Speaker: Jeff Friedman, PhD Candidate, “Authoritarian Regimes and Cooperation in IOs” Committee on Public Policy, Harvard University. Speaker: Jee Hye Kim, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Rich Nielson, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Cosette Creamer, PhD Candidate, February 2, 2012 Department of Government, Harvard University. “An Epidemic Model of Violence and Public November 3, 2011 Support in Civil War” “The Impact of Politically Motivated Foreign Aid: Speaker: Yuri Zhukov, PhD Candidate, What Is the Evidence?” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speakers: Volha Charnysh, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Brandon Stewart, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University; Department of Government, Harvard University. Erin Baggott, PhD Candidate, Department of February 9, 2012 Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Dustin Tingley, Assistant Professor, Department “Unfair Fights: Power Asymmetries and of Government, Harvard University. Preventive War” Speaker: Rob Schub, PhD Candidate, Department November 10, 2011 of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: “Intergroup Conflict for Intragroup Trust” Erin Baggott, PhD Candidate, Department of Speaker: Akos Lada, PhD Candidate in Political Government, Harvard University. Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy February 16, 2012 School. Discussant: Muhammet Bas, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, “Arms Control Agreements” Harvard University. Speaker: Jane Vaynman, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. November 17, 2011 Discussant: Rob Schub, PhD Candidate, “Knowing Your Limits: Political Judgment and Department of Government, Harvard University. Authority in the EU and Beyond” February 23, 2012 Speaker: Mareike Kleine, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow (2011–2012), the Minda de “Spillover and Revolution” Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard

58 Seminars Speaker: Silvana Toska, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Jeff Friedman, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Cornell University, Committee on Public Policy, Harvard University. Exchange Scholar (2011–2013), Department of April 12, 2012 Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Yuri Zhukov, PhD Candidate, Department of “Alliances and War” Government, Harvard University. Speaker: George Yin, PhD Candidate, Department March 1, 2012 of Government, Harvard University.

“Public Opinion Toward Trade Policy” “Collective Action” Speaker: Shahrzad Sabet, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Molly Roberts, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Marek Hlavac, PhD Candidate, April 19, 2012 Harvard Kennedy School. “Text Analysis and IR” March 8, 2012 Speaker: Brandon Stewart, PhD Candidate, “Conflict in International Relations” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Volha Charnys, PhD Candidate, Discussant: Molly Roberts, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. Discussant: Silvana Tosca, PhD Candidate, Research Workshop in Political Department of Government, Cornell University, Economy Exchange Scholar (2011–2013), Department of Government, Harvard University. Co-taught by Professors James Alt, Kenneth March 22, 2012 Shepsle, and Dustin Tingley, the Research Workshop in Political Economy (Government “Military Leaders” 3007) is a year-long graduate seminar that Speaker: Michael Horowitz, Associate Professor aims to encourage cross-disciplinary research of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. and excellence in graduate training. Political Discussant: Jane Vaynman, PhD Candidate, economy is a research tradition that explores Department of Government, Harvard University. how institutions affect political and economic outcomes. The workshop emphasizes the March 29, 2012 development of dissertation proposals and is “Adam Smith and Trade” a place where graduate students can present Speaker: James Morrison, Assistant Professor of their research to an audience of committed and Political Science, Middlebury College. informed peers. It is open to graduate students in the Departments of Government and Economics, April 5, 2012 and the Program in Political Economy and Government. The workshop holds both internal “Returnees Spark More Violence: The Effect of and public seminars and meetings. At the internal Refugee Return on Civil Conflict Intensity” meetings, approximately twelve per semester, Speaker: Kara Ross Camarena, PhD Candidate, graduate students and faculty present their own Department of Government, Harvard University. work to one another. At the public meetings, Discussant: George Yin, PhD Candidate, two per semester, leading scholars are invited Department of Government, Harvard University. to Harvard to present their work. Although the “International Provocation, Domestic Discourse, workshop is by invitation only, affiliates of the and Counter-Escalation in Chinese Foreign Policy, Weatherhead Center are encouraged to attend 1990–2004” the public meetings. Speaker: Erin Baggott, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 59 Seminar Chairs October 24, 2011

James Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of “Getting Along without Omniscience: Role of Government, Department of Government, Harvard Networks in Inter- and Intra-Group Cooperation” University; Kenneth Shepsle, George D. Markham Speaker: Jenn Larson, PhD Candidate, Professor of Government, Department of Department of Government, Harvard University. Government, Harvard University; Dustin Tingley, October 31, 2011 Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Do Political Protests Work? Evidence from the September 12, 2011 Tea Party Movement” Speaker: Stan Veuger, PhD Candidate, Draft job talk paper Department of Economics, Harvard University. Speaker: J. Andrew Harris, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Political Reform with Time-Inconsistent Voters” Speakers: Jisoo Hwang, PhD Candidate, September 19, 2011 Department of Economics, Harvard University; Johanna Mollerstrom, PhD Candidate, “Beyond Access Expansion: Congressional Department of Economics, Harvard University. Attention to Quality in Domestic Policy” Speaker: Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, PhD November 7, 2011 Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Developing Standards: The Evolution of Labor Market Politics in Latin America and Asia” September 26, 2011 Speaker: Claire Schwartz Litwin, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Politicians and Foreign Policy: Explaining the Rise of the National Security Debate in Election “A Coalition Probability Index” Campaigns in Japan” Speaker: Tim Ganser, PhD Candidate in Political Speaker: Amy Catalinac, PhD, Department of Economy and Government, Harvard University. Government, Harvard University. November 14, 2011 October 3, 2011 “A Failure of Representative Democracy” “Costly Peace: A New Rationalist Explanation Speaker: Katie Baldiga, PhD Candidate, for War” Department of Economics, Harvard University. Speaker: Andrew Coe, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. November 21, 2011

October 4, 2011 “Religious Congregations, Charitable Giving and Welfare: Lessons from an Event Study of the “The Effects of Multinational Nationality on Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Scandals” Government Breach of Contract” Speaker: Ricardo Perez-Truglia, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Rachel Wellhausen, PhD Candidate in Department of Economics, Harvard University. International Political Economy and Comparative Politics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Institutional Effects on Congressional Elections” Speakers: Kenneth Shepsle, George D. Markham October 17, 2011 Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University; Andrew Hall, “Initiating Insurgency: Rebel Viability in Uganda” PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Speaker: Janet Lewis, PhD Candidate, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University, Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Program on Order, Conflict November 28, 2011 and Violence, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University. “The Effects of Racial Animus on Voting: Evidence

60 Seminars Using Google Search Data” Speaker: Fernando Martel Garcia, Research Speaker: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, PhD Fellow, Department of Global Health and Candidate, Department of Economics, Population, Harvard School of Public Health. Harvard University. Brainstorming “Does Gradualism Build Coordination? Evidence Speaker: Mauricio Duque, PhD Candidate, Political from Laboratory Experiments” Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy Speaker: Maoliang Ye, PhD Candidate, Public School. Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. March 5, 2012 January 30, 2012 “Fiscal Imbalances in Latin America” “Ghost-House Busters: The Electoral Response to Speaker: Laura Von Daniels, PhD Candidate, a Large Anti-Tax Evasion Program” Department of Political Science, Free University Speaker: Lorenzo Casaburi, PhD Candidate, of Berlin. Department of Economics, Harvard University. “A Difficult Choice: Strategic Voting in Brainstorming Proportional Representation Systems” Speaker: Kara Ross, PhD Candidate, Department Speaker: Tim Ganser, PhD Candidate, of Government, Harvard University. Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School. February 6, 2012 March 19, 2012 “Testing an Informational Theory of Legislation: Evidence from the US House of Representatives” “The Effect of Political Leaders’ Educational Speaker: Hye Young You, PhD Candidate, Professional Background on Trade Liberalization: Political Economy and Government, Harvard Evidence from Tariff Rates, 1988–2005” Kennedy School. Speaker: Marek Hlavac, PhD Candidate, Political Economy and Government, Harvard “Interstate Integration and Recessions: A Kennedy School. Complex Relationship” Speaker: Akos Lada, PhD Candidate, “Adding Another Level: Individual Responses to Political Economy and Government, Harvard Globalization and Government Welfare Policies” Kennedy School. Speaker: Gabriele Spilker, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Comparative and February 13, 2012 International Studies, ETH Zurich.

“How Did Europe Democratize? Views from the March 26, 2012 Sovereign Bond Market” Speakers: Aditya Dasgupta, PhD Candidate, “The Tragic (but Hidden) Toll of the Great Department of Government, Harvard University; Recession on Children” Daniel Ziblatt, Professor of Government, Speaker: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, PhD Department of Government, Harvard University. Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University. “Uncertainty and the Geography of the Great Recession” “Transparency and Media Scrutiny in the Speaker: Stan Veuger, PhD Candidate, Regulatory Process” Department of Economics, Harvard University. Speaker: Laurence Tai, PhD Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. February 27, 2012 April 2, 2012 “Present at Creation: Democratic Compacts, Institutional Accountability, and Health Outcomes” “What Happens When a Woman Wins a Close Election? Evidence from Brazil”

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 61 Speaker: Ugo Troiano, PhD Candidate, and farming in their global context. Workshop Department of Economics, Harvard University. participants are investigating several broad food- system dilemmas: “The Modern Economic Peace” Speaker: Andrew Coe, PhD Candidate, • Taking into consideration the international Department of Government, Harvard University. grain price spikes of both 2007–2008 and 2010–2011, should we conclude that the long- April 9, 2012 term (Twentieth Century) trend toward lower “Power Politics: The Impact of Political Affiliation real food prices has finally been halted, or on Local Development” even reversed? Speaker: Sam Asher, PhD Candidate, Department • Is the world’s increasingly specialized and of Economics, Harvard University. industrialized food production system fundamentally incompatible with environmental “Digging for Development: The Effects of the sustainability? Would it be better to revert to Natural Resources Sector on Local Economic and less specialized traditional systems, or innovate Political Activity” greener industrial systems? Speaker: Paul Novosad, PhD Candidate, Political • To what extent has obesity caused by over- Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy nutrition (particularly in industrial countries) School. replaced hunger and undernutrition as the world’s most pressing “food problem”? April 16, 2012 • To what extent can the problems of today’s “Why Is Mexico Violent?” food and farming systems be adequately Speaker: Viridiana Ríos, PhD Candidate, addressed by national governments, as Department of Government, Harvard University. opposed to intergovernmental institutions, private business firms, or civil-society “Rainfall and Conflict” organizations? Speaker: Heather Sarsons, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Because responsible treatment of these topics requires a multidisciplinary perspective, more April 23, 2012 than one dozen invited participants are drawn Brainstorming from the natural sciences, social sciences, and Speaker: Wonbin Kang, PhD Candidate, Political the humanities, as well as from medicine, law, Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy business administration, and engineering. In 2010– School. 2011 the workshop benefitted from presentations by a number of guest experts, including a Brainstorming prize-winning agronomist, the president of Speaker: Chris Lucas, PhD Candidate, Department an important agricultural development NGO, of Government, Harvard University. an advocate for an innovative method of rice cultivation, and the owner-manager of a large “The Co-Evolution of State and Legislatures” commercial cotton and soybean farm. Speaker: Angela Fonseca Galvis, PhD Candidate, Political Economy and Government, Harvard The workshop meets up to eight times during Kennedy School. the academic year over dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club. At the conclusion of the series, the Workshop on the Sustainability group will assess progress and consider plans for of the World’s Food and future work. Farming Systems The workshop is co-sponsored by the The Workshop on the Sustainability of the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard World’s Food and Farming Systems convenes in Kennedy School. 2011–2012 to consider the phenomena of food

62 Seminars Seminar Chairs Speaker: Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, World Wildlife Fund. Robert L. Paarlberg, Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political April 2, 2012 Science, Wellesley College; John Briscoe, “Managing Food Price Volatility: Why and How?” Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, Speaker: C. Peter Timmer, Fellow, Center for Department of Environmental Health, Harvard Global Development, Washington, DC. School of Public Health, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Special Seminars Harvard University; Missy Holbrook, Professor of Each year, the Weatherhead Center has the Biology, Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, opportunity to support several ad hoc events Department of Organismic and Evolutionary ranging from art exhibits to small and large Biology, Harvard University. academic gatherings. Through these events, sometimes the result of collaboration with other September 12, 2011 Harvard research centers, the Weatherhead “Agriculture and Human Health” Center is often able to capitalize upon student Speakers: Rachel Nugent, Deputy Director for initiatives, improvised talks, and the presence Global Health, Center for Global Development, of scholars and practitioners passing through Washington, DC; Dariush Mozaffarian, Co-director, the Cambridge area, thus providing the greater Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Harvard community with additional opportunities Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of to benefit from the Center’s intellectual reach. Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s September 28, 2011 Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard “Harvard WorldMap: Demonstration School of Public Health. and Discussion” Speakers: Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill October 24, 2011 Clowes Professor of Fine Arts, Department “The Origins of Gender Roles: of History of Art and Architecture, Professor Women and the Plough” of African and African American Studies, Speakers: Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Department of African and African American Professor of Political Economy, Department of Studies, Harvard University; Peter K. Bol, Charles Economics, Havard University; Nathan Nunn, Paul H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Department of Economics, Harvard University. Languages and Civilizations, Director, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Harvard November 7, 2011 College Professor.

“Drought-Tolerant Maize for African Farmers” October 5, 2011 Speaker: Natalie DiNicola, Director of Global Partnership Development, Monsanto Company. “Nonviolent Struggle: Lessons from Serbia Applied in the Middle East and Africa” February 13, 2012 Speakers: Slobodan Djinovic, Co-founder, Lecturer, Center for Applied NonViolent Action “Landscapes for People, Food, and Nature” Speaker: Sara J. Scherr, President and CEO, and Strategies (CANVAS); Srdja Popovic, EcoAgriculture Partners, Washington, DC. Co-founder, Lecturer, CANVAS.

March 5, 2012 Co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the “Food on a Finite Planet” Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Middle East Initiative.

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“Disciplining Terror: How Experts and Others “Inside the ‘Free the Hikers’ Campaign: A Harvard Created ‘Terrorism’” Graduate Student’s Struggle to Free his Brother A presentation of the Charles Warren Center’s from Arbitrary Detention in Iran” 2011–2012 Workshop on The Politics of Speaker: Alex Fattal, PhD Candidate, Department Knowledge in Universities and the State. of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Speaker: Lisa Stampnitzky, Fellow, Charles December 6, 2011 Warren Center for Studies in American “Is Forgiveness a Political Virtue or a History, Harvard University, Research Fellow Human Right?” in Governance, Accountability, and Innovation, Speakers: Leonel Narváez Gomez, Founder, Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, Said Foundation for Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Business School, University of Oxford. Bogotá, Colombia; Martha L. Minow, Dean of the October 18, 2011 Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School; Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. “Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict” Co-sponsored by Forgiveness International, the A book presentation and conversation with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Donna Hicks. in participation with CS 2740 “The Ecumenical Speaker: Donna Hicks, Weatherhead Engagement of the Churches with Overcoming Center Associate. Violence,” Episcopal Divinity School.

October 20, 2011 December 9, 2011

“No One Had a Tongue to Speak” “A Model for the Future of the European Union—a A book presentation and conversation with Utpal Business Perspective” Sandesara (WCFIA Undergraduate Associate, Speaker: Christoph Leitl, Austrian Federal 2007–2008) and Tom Wooten (Harvard College Economic Chamber, Honorary President of the ‘08). The book is a narrative nonfiction account of Association of European Chambers of Commerce the 1979 Machhu dam disaster, a flash flood that and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES), President of killed as many as 25,000 people in Gujarat State, Austria’s SME Union. India. February 6, 2012 Speakers: Utpal Sandesara, Author, former WCFIA Undergraduate Associate, 2007–2008; “Sound The Horn: Symposium on the Famine in Tom Wooten, Author. the Horn of Africa” November 10, 2011 Speakers: William Masters, Professor and Chair, Food and Nutrition Policy Department, “Countdown to the Rio+20 United Nations Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University; Conference on Sustainable Development” Kenneth J. Menkhaus, Professor of Political The purpose of the event was to spur a multi- Science, Davidson College; Robert L. Paarlberg, stakeholder conversation on the challenges and Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science, opportunities presented by the agenda of Rio+20. Department of Political Science, Wellesley Speakers: John Matuszak, Division Chief, College. Moderators: Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Sustainable Development and Multilateral Affairs, Harvard University, Lincoln Professor of History, US State Department; Jorge Laguna Celis, Harvard University; Paul Farmer, Maude and Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Mexico Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, to the United Nations; Felix Dodds, Executive Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Director, Stakeholder Forum. Moderator: Joseph Harvard Medical School, Chair, Founding Director, Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Partners In Health. Kennedy School.

64 Seminars March 7, 2012 A videoconference between Harvard University and Colombo, Sri Lanka, in cooperation with the “Winds of the Wakhan: A Photographic Pathfinder Fund of Sri Lanka. Presentation of Northern Afghanistan” Felix de Rosen discusses the value and ethics Speakers: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia of travel through a slideshow presentation Initiative, Harvard University; Jorge Paulo of his time in the Wakhan Valley of northern Lemann, Professor, Harvard Business School. Afghanistan during the summer of 2011. Speaker: Felix de Rosen, Undergraduate, Class of 2013, Harvard College.

March 8–9, 2012

“Religion and Civilization in International History” The Twelfth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (ConIH).

March 26, 2012

Exhibit Viewing Reception

“Beautiful Resistance: Life Beyond the Wall in the West Bank” Speaker: Alex Palmer, Undergraduate, Class of 2012, Harvard College.

April 17, 2012

“Decolonization Models for America’s Last Colony: Puerto Rico” Speaker: Ángel Collado-Schwarz, Founder and Chairman, Fundación Voz del Centro, Producer and Host, La Voz del Centro, PhD, Latin American History, Universidad Computense de Madrid.

April 24, 2012

“The Living Magazine: Cambodia” The Living Magazine: Cambodia is an international literary and cultural event with special focus on issues surrounding writing, publishing, and free expression in Cambodia. This year’s event (the second at Harvard) featured the work of writers Samkhann Khoeun and Chanbo Keo; rap artist and activist praCh ly; and current Scholars at Risk Fellow Tararith Kho. It included contributions from the Angkor Dance Troupe and members of the Harvard community, including Steven Pinker, Stephen Greenblatt, and undergraduate students.

May 22, 2012

“Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Lives and Yours”

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Research Programs

Canada Program St. Michael’s Hospital, was the 2011–2012 William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair. Professor Dunn was The Canada Program seeks to enhance the appointed by the Harvard School of Public Health, understanding of one of the United States’ and, in spring 2012, co-taught, with Professor closest geographic allies by examining Canadian Michèle Lamont, Successful Societies: Markers and social, cultural, economic, and political issues Pathways. Professor Dunn also chaired the Canada in their domestic and international dimensions. Seminar series and in May 2012 organized the two- The program, founded in 1967 as a visiting day research conference Divided Cities, Divergent professorship of Canadian Studies, now comprises Life Chances in Canada and the United States. two annual visiting professorships, the William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair and the William Lyon Daniyal Zuberi, assistant professor in the Mackenzie King Research Fellow—appointed by Department of Sociology at the University of various departments—a number of graduate and British Columbia, Vancouver, was the 2011–2012 undergraduate student fellowships, a seminar William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow. speaker series, and an annual faculty conference. While here, Dr. Zuberi offered two undergraduate The Mackenzie King Chairs, in addition to teaching courses, Urban Social Problems (fall 2011), and The through their appointed departments, develop Sociology of Poverty (spring 2012). the seminars and conferences as related to their research and teachings. In 2011–2012, the program provided grants for eight graduate students and two undergraduate The program offered a diverse range of events students—known as Canada Research Fellows— during 2011–2012. The Canada Seminar—a representing the Graduate School of Arts and colloquia of presentations by notable Canadians, Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard including academics, public servants, journalists, Law School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, professional practitioners, and artists—served as and Harvard College—for dissertations or theses a focal point for engaging faculty, students, and with a research focus on Canadian matters. the broader Harvard community by providing an informed view of Canadian scholarly and public Administration life. James R. Dunn, associate professor in the Department of Health, Aging, and Society at Beth A. Simmons, Permanent Faculty Chair, McMaster University, and research scientist at Canada Program, Weatherhead Center Director,

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 67 Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, outcomes), as well as the processes that produce Department of Government, Harvard University. those outcomes, and to identify new approaches to action to redress urban inequality and its Helen Clayton, Program Administrator, consequences on life chances (education, early Canada Program. learning, health, and crime), accounting for current conditions (different forms of marginality) Canada Research Fellows under neoliberalism. Shehnaz Alidina, PhD Candidate, Health Over the last twenty-five years, income inequality Policy and Management, Harvard School of has climbed steadily in both Canada and the Public Health. United States, with income and wealth increasingly Efrat Arbel, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School. concentrated in the richest quantiles of the population, at the expense of the lower and middle Martha Ferede, PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate classes, who are often members of minority groups. School of Education. New questions facing this area of inquiry concern Christine Hu, Undergraduate, Department of a new set of conditions that include welfare state Economics, Harvard College. retrenchment, normalization of, and deference to, market forces; public-private partnerships; Casra LaBelle, Undergraduate, Department of deregulation, and a re-scaling of urban Economics, Harvard College. governance from central states to local state and Jennifer Langlais, SJD Candidate, Harvard nonstate actors. Law School. Chair:

Daniel Nadler, PhD Candidate, Department of James R. Dunn, William Lyon Mackenzie King Government, Harvard University. Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University, Associate Professor, Department of Steffen Rimner, PhD Candidate, Department of Health, Aging, and Society, McMaster University. History, Harvard University. Wednesday, May 2 Joshua Specht, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. Welcome Dinner and Keynote Address Speakers: John Logan, Professor of Sociology, Tiffanie Ting, PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate Brown University; David Hulchanski, Professor of School of Education. Housing and Community Development, University Conference of Toronto.

Divided Cities, Divergent Life Chances in Thursday, May 3 Canada and the United States Differences That Matter May 2–4, 2012 Speakers: James R. Dunn, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian This conference convened eleven distinguished Studies, Harvard University, Associate Professor, scholars to examine growth in inequality under Department of Health, Aging, and Society, global neoliberalism in wealthy countries. The McMaster University; Dan Zuberi, William Lyon current neoliberal era has seen new forms of Mackenzie King Research Fellow, Associate spatial inequality in cities (by income, race, or Professor of Sociology, University of British ethnicity, for example). The conference sought to Columbia, Vancouver. enhance understandings of the patterns of spatial inequality (divided cities), adverse consequences Early Childhood Development related to crime, health, and child development Speakers: Gary Evans, Professor of Design and in Canada and the United States (divergent Environmental Analysis, Cornell University;

68 Programs Véronique Dupéré, Assistant Professor, École de Speaker: Mark Rosentraub, Professor of Sport Psychoéducation, l’Université de Montréal. Management, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Health October 24, 2011 Speakers: Nancy Ross, Assistant Professor of “Death and Disparity on the 49th Parallel: Geography, Associate Member of Epidemiology Unpacking the Canadian-US Paradox of Income and Biostatistics, McGill University; Dolores Inequality and Population Health” Acevedo-Garcia, Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Speaker: James R. Dunn, William Lyon Mackenzie Professor of Human Development and Social King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Policy, Director, Institute for Child Youth and Harvard University, Associate Professor, Family Policy, Brandeis University. Department of Health, Aging, and Society, Crime and Safety McMaster University. Speaker: Ann Owens, PhD Candidate, Department October 31, 2011 of Sociolgy, Harvard University. “Blowing Snow: The Disinformation Campaign to Group Dinner and Keynote Address: Undermine Canada’s Medicare” Speaker: Xavier de Souza Briggs, Professor of Speaker: Robert G. Evans, Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Economics, University of British Columbia. Institute of Technology. November 7, 2011 Friday, May 4 “Hockey as Mirror: Finding a National Identity in “What To Do? Policy Content” a Game” Speaker: Neil Bradford, Instructor, Political Speaker: Stephen Brunt, Columnist, Feature Science and Public Policy, Huron College at Writer, Sportsnet Magazine. Western University. November 14, 2011 Canada Seminar “Election 2011: The Death Knell for Canada’s The Canada Seminar offers presentations by Laurentian Consensus” public figures, scholars, artists, and experts in Speaker: John Ibbitson, Ottawa Bureau Chief, the various fields and provides a forum for the lively Globe and Mail. exchange of ideas on a wide range of issues. The seminar has hosted numerous notable Canadians: November 28, 2011 Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, “The North American Idea” and Jean Chretien; Member of Parliament and Speaker: Robert Pastor, Professor, Director, former Toronto Maple Leaf President, Ken Center for North American Studies, Dryden; and Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of American University. the Supreme Court of Canada. Because Canada and the United States, like many industrialized February 6, 2012 countries, must respond to similar economic and social challenges with distinctly different “The Science and Politics of Insite: Vancouver’s frameworks and historical legacies, the study Supervised Injection Site” of Canadian issues offers rich opportunities for Speaker: Thomas Kerr, Associate Professor, scholars engaged in comparative studies. Department of Medicine, Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia. October 17, 2011 February 13, 2012 “Amenities, Economic Development, and ‘Ideas in the Air:’ The Quest of Two Canadian “How Finance Went Wrong, and How to Fix It: Cities to Build Alfred Marshall’s Places Where Some Worthwhile Canadian Initiatives” Wealth Develops”

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 69 Speaker: Randall Morck, Stephen A. Jarislowsky can address some of their common concerns, Distinguished Chair in Finance, University through the history of economic and social of Alberta. thought, through economic history, and through the application of economic concepts February 27, 2012 to historical problems. The objective of the Center is to encourage fundamental research “How Mobile News Will Save TV Journalism” in history, economics, and related disciplines. It Speaker: Kevin Newman, journalist. also encourages the participation of historians March 26, 2012 and economists in addressing issues of public importance. “Cities and Government in Canada” Speaker: Naheed Nenshi, Mayor, City of Alberta. In conjunction with its counterpart Centre at the University of Cambridge, the Harvard Center March 19, 2012 undertakes research projects and organizes “Outsourced: Neoliberalism and the Fate of Our workshops, seminars, and exchanges of faculty Hospitals, Healthcare Systems, and Societies” and graduate students. It provides the base for Speaker: Daniyal Zuberi, William Lyon Mackenzie the current research project at the Faculty of King Research Fellow, Associate Professor Arts and Sciences and the Centre for History of Sociology, University of British Columbia, and Economics, Exchanges of Economic, Legal Vancouver. and Political Ideas, which is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. April 2, 2012 Emma Rothschild, the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, directs the Center for History “Living Forward, Understanding Backward: and Economics and co-directs the Magdalene Transforming Public Health in the 21st Century” College Centre. Allison Frank, the John L. Loeb Speaker: David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, is the Officer, Canada. associate director of the Harvard Center. April 9, 2012 Administration “The Continuing Resonance of the Liberal Idea in Emma Rothschild, Director, Center for History and North America” Economics, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor Speaker: The Honourable Bob Rae, Member of of History, Department of History, Harvard Parliament (Toronto Centre), Interim Leader, University. Liberal Party of Canada.

April 16, 2012 Allison Frank, Associate Director, Center for History and Economics, John L. Loeb Associate “Losing Our Balance? Trends in Imprisonment Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Policies in Canada” History, Harvard University. Speaker: Cheryl Webster, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa. Jessica Barnard, Coordinator, Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics.

Center for History and Emily Gauthier, Administrator. Economics Amy Price, Website Coordinator. The Joint Center for History and Economics is based at Harvard University and at Magdalene EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE College and King’s College, University of Cambridge. It was established in 2007 to Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones promote research and education on subjects Professor of American Studies, Department of of importance for historians and economists. History, Harvard University. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars

70 Programs Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer Alisha C. Holland, PhD Candidate, Department of University Professor, Department of History, Government, Harvard University. Harvard University. Philipp Lehmann, PhD Candidate, Department of Dale Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University History, Harvard University. Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Elisa Minoff, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. Charles Rosenberg, Professor of the History of Science, Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social David Singerman, PhD Candidate, Program in Sciences, Department of the History of Science, Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Harvard University. Institute of Technology.

Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Joshua Specht, PhD Candidate, Department of Professor of History, Department of History, History, Harvard University. Harvard University. Julia A. Stephens, PhD Candidate, Department of Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor History, Harvard University. of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value, Jeremy Zallen, PhD Candidate, Department of Department of English, Harvard University. History, Harvard University.

Richard Tuck, Frank G. Thomson Professor Visiting Fellow of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. Valerie Wallace, Research Associate, University College London. FACULTY ASSOCIATES PRIZE FELLOWS IN ECONOMICS, HISTORY, Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International AND POLITICS Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Benjamin Golub, PhD Candidate, Economic Analysis and Policy, Graduate School of Business, Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic Stanford University. History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University. Johannes Haushofer, PhD, Neurobiology, Harvard University. Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History, Department of History, Professor of African and Rachel Leow, PhD, Department of History, African American Studies, Department of African University of Cambridge. and African American Studies, Harvard University. Noah Millstone, PhD, Department of History, Kenneth Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Stanford University. Law, Harvard Law School. Alexia Yates, PhD, Department of History, Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of University of Chicago. History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. EXCHANGES OF ECONOMIC, LEGAL, AND POLITICAL IDEAS Graduate Student Affiliates The program, coordinated by Emma Rothschild, Eva L. Bitran, PhD Candidate, Department of is the continuation of the earlier program at History, Harvard University. the Joint Centre on Exchanges of Economic Nikolas Bowie, PhD Candidate, Department of and Political Ideas since 1760, which ended in History, Harvard University, JD Candidate, Harvard September 2009. Two projects developed out Law School. of the earlier project, on French empires and the internationalization of the history of France,

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 71 and on the digitization of history. The new Dave Donaldson, Assistant Professor, Department program, which is supported by the Andrew W. of Economics, Massachusetts Institute Mellon Foundation, is concerned with histories of Technology. of economic life and history and the law. Rohit De (the constitutional history of India), Fei Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen Hsien Wang (history of copyright in China), and N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Julia Stephens (Islamic Law in British India) are Science, University of California, Berkeley. research fellows in the program, based at the Allison Frank, Associate Director, Center for Cambridge Centre. Rohit De and Julia Stephens History and Economics, John L. Loeb Associate have been appointed assistant professors of Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of history at Yale University, and Fei Hsien Wang at History, Harvard University. Indiana University, all to start in 2014. Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial The History Project Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Princeton University. The History Project is a new initiative of the Joint Center for History and Economics, launched in Robert Johnson, President, Institute for New the fall of 2011 and supported by the Institute Economic Thinking. for New Economic Thinking. The Project seeks to provide support for young historians who Naomi Lamoreaux, Stanley B. Resor Professor of are interested in economic history, the history Economics & History, Yale University. of economic thought, and political and cultural histories of economic life. The project will include: Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of (1) Annual graduate student conferences, to History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. be held at five different universities over the Emma Rothschild, Director, Center for History and period 2012 to 2016 on subjects ranging from Economics, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor the economic history of poverty to the history of History, Department of History, Harvard of energy; (2) A program of small to medium- University. sized research grants, open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students; (3) A History Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of the History Project website as a resource for new histories of of Ideas, Queen Mary College, University economic life and economic thought. of London.

Over the 2011-2012 academic year, the History Adam Tooze, Barton M. Biggs Professor of Project’s foundations were laid, with critical History, Yale University. procedures outlined and key personnel identified, and offices established at Harvard and Cambridge Francesca Trivellato, Frederick W Hilles Professor Universities. of History, Yale University. Research Advisors Advisory Committee Eva Bitran, PhD Candidate, Department of Jeremy Adelman, Walter Samuel Carpenter III History, Harvard University. Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, Professor of History, Department of History, Hannah Callaway, PhD Candidate, Department of Princeton University. History, Harvard University.

Sunil Amrith, Reader in Modern Asian History, Jagjeet Lally (University of Cambridge) Birkbeck College, University of London. Philipp Lehmann, PhD Candidate, Department of Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International History, Harvard University. Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

72 Programs Shi-Lin Loh, PhD Candidate, Program on History Speaker: Ananya Jahanara Kabir, University and East Asian Languages, Harvard University. of Leeds.

Chris Miller, PhD Candidate, Department of November 2, 2011 History, Yale University. “Poor Economics” Tariq Omar Ali, Harvard University. Speakers: Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Esther Duflo, Will Smiley, PhD Candidate, Middle Eastern Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Studies, University of Cambridge, and JD Candidate, Yale Law School. February 8, 2012

Melissa Teixeira, PhD Candidate, Department of “A Life Transformed” History, Princeton University. Speaker: Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Rebecca Woods, PhD Candidate, History, Law and Liberty, Princeton University. Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and April 11, 2012 Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Warfare and Welfare: How Social Pressure and Global Conflict in World War II Changed China” Energy History Project Speaker: Rana Mitter, University of Oxford.

The Energy History Project at the Center for April 18, 2012 History and Economics is supported by a large- scale seed grant from the Harvard Center for the “Race, Difference and the Origins of British Environment. The project, on the global history of Anthropology” energy, explores how the historical study of energy Speaker: Colin Kidd, Queens University Belfast. use and transformation can widen perspectives of economic, social, and environmental processes in Transnational History of Health the past. It also serves as a forum for the historical in Southeast Asia discussion of energy in all its forms. Participants November 15, 2011 include Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University), Ian Miller (Harvard University), Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck/ “The Oil Prince’s Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy Centre for History and Economics), Harriet Ritvo in China” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Emma Speaker: Mary Bullock, Emory University. Rothschild (Harvard University) and Paul Warde (University of East Anglia/Centre for History and Graduate Workshop Series Economics). Graduate student coordinators are The graduate workshop series provided an Philipp Lehmann, Joshua Specht, Victor Seow, informal forum for graduate students to present and Jeremy Zallen. their research or papers-in-progress to an History and Economics Seminar audience of their peers.

September 22, 2011 September 27, 2011

“Did Things Have to Turn Out This Way? Energy, “The Contio from Antiquity to the Middle Ages” Technology, Markets and the Environment in the Speaker: Shane Bobrycki, PhD Candidate, North American West” Department of History, Harvard University. Speaker: Richard White, Stanford University. October 18, 2011 October 12, 2011 “The Handwriting of the Visible Hand: Accounting “Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus’s for Coordination in American Factories, 1800–1850” Germania in British India”

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 73 Speaker: Caitlin Rosenthal, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Jason Jackson, Department of Urban Program on the History of American Civilization, Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute Harvard University. of Technology.

November 8, 2011 March 20, 2012

“The Wealth of a Nation: Economic Indicators in “Darf Nichts Bringen: Nazi News at Home and Early America” Abroad, 1934–1945” Speaker: Eli Cook, PhD Candidate, Program Speaker: Heidi Tworek, PhD Candidate, on the History of American Civilization, Department of History, Harvard University. Harvard University. April 3, 2012 November 15, 2011 “Force and Fraud: Arbitrary Power in Workers’ “Paul Tillich and the Vision of a Religious Socialist Critiques of Capitalism’s Legitimacy in 19th Future for Postwar Germany” Century America” Speaker: James Martin, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Benjamin Weber, PhD Candidate, Department of Historyt, Harvard University. Department of History, Harvard University.

November 29, 2011 April 10, 2012

“The Ethics of Future Reproduction: Emerging “‘Smoothing the Cycles’: The Promise of Debates on New Reproductive Technologies Long-Range Forecasting for New Deal and Their Regulation in the Federal Republic of Agricultural Planning” Germany, 1945–2010” Speaker: James Bergman, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Kristen Loveland, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Department of History, Harvard University. Harvard University.

December 6, 2011 April 17, 2012

No Talk Title “Scandalous Aliens: The Boundaries of Sin Speaker: Carla Heelan, PhD Candidate, History and the Expulsion of Moneylenders in Late Department, Harvard University. Medieval Europe” Speaker: Rowan Dorin, PhD Candidate, February 7, 2012 Department of History, Harvard University.

“Utopian Visions: South African Cosmopolitans in an Imperial World, 1880–1948” Fellows Program Speaker: Matthew Kustenbauder, PhD Candidate, Seventeen Fellows from ten countries were in Department of History, Harvard University. residence at the Weatherhead Center during February 21, 2012 the academic year 2011–2012. In addition to welcoming practitioners from countries that “The Political Economy of the Terror: The participate on a regular and consistent basis, Compagnie des Indes and Foreign Commerce in the Program also included participants from the French Revolution” countries that have been less represented over Speaker: Elizabeth Cross, PhD Candidate, the years, including Sri Lanka, Guatemala, and Department of History, Harvard University. Indonesia. It was also a diverse class in terms of professional affiliation, and included diplomats, March 6, 2012 military officers, representatives of NGOs, and “The Political Economy of Foreign Direct journalists. All highly experienced practitioners Investment: Constructing Business Interests and of international affairs, the Fellows conducted Policy Preferences in Post-War India and Brazil” research; organized and led study groups; served as mentors to undergraduate students;

74 Programs assisted graduate students with their research; O’Sullivan, Stephen Bosworth, and Tarek attended classes; and offered their perspectives Masoud. Small groups of Fellows met with senior in gatherings throughout the University. WCFIA faculty over breakfast and lunch to have more informal conversations. Fellows were also Fellows also spent time together discussing individually engaged in the activities and work of international issues shaped by current events. other Harvard centers and programs, including For some, the year at Harvard marked the first those at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for time in their careers that they felt unconstrained European Studies, David Rockefeller Center for to debate issues frankly and openly with their Latin American Studies, Asia Center, Program on counterparts from other countries. The wars U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard Kennedy School, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the role of religion in and Harvard Law School. foreign affairs, the growing influence of China and India, America’s changing role worldwide, Fellows made meaningful and important immigration reform, global economic and fiscal contributions through their interactions with challenges, international security concerns, and undergraduate students by participating in US politics were some of the important issues study groups and in dinner discussions at that Fellows debated and discussed. Indeed, the residential houses. Topics covered in they welcomed the opportunity to think about dinner meetings included the role of women new and creative approaches for dealing with in post-conflict development; contemporary difficult global issues. Turkish foreign policy; global climate change; Venezuela’s ties to Iran; and conflict resolution At the same time, Fellows were exposed to social in civil wars. Fellows also organized several science theories and research intended to place study groups for Harvard College students. One, their experiences in a more general perspective. a series on “Doing Development Differently,” Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International addressed the plight of refugees, considered Peace, Department of Government, designed civil-military relations in response to crises, and and taught a research seminar specifically examined the role of foreign aid. for the Fellows, each of whom conducted an independent research project. The seminar, which In addition, Harvard students worked as research convened six times during the year, offered them assistants to Fellows. The students assisted the opportunity to discuss their ongoing work Fellows with their research projects, lent guidance with their colleagues in navigating the university library system, helped identify sources of information, and offered The group also met twice weekly—over breakfast editorial comments. In return, the undergraduates each Wednesday when they shared ideas and learned valuable lessons in the practice of perspectives with one another, and over lunch international affairs. on Fridays when they met with distinguished and thought-provoking individuals (leading The Fellows’ experience included participation academics, politicians, journalists, and “unique in several short study trips. Andrew Homer voices” from other fields of endeavor). The Ring, United States Navy, organized a day-long Friday discussions covered a wide range of trip to the Naval Submarine Station in Groton, topics, from the future of American power Connecticut in October. A month later, in mid- to how to deal with emotions in negotiation. November, the Fellows spent a day in New In addition, Fellows were encouraged to Hampshire meeting with politicians, political organize public seminars, including the WCFIA insiders, journalists, and even a presidential Roundtable on World Affairs, which convened candidate to discuss the upcoming presidential several times during the academic year. Among primary. Early in the spring term, the Fellows those who joined the Fellows at seminars in traveled to New York for a day at the United 2011–2012 were Beth A. Simmons, Amartya Sen, Nations, where they discussed UN peacekeeping Nicholas Burns, Michael Dukakis, Rawi Abdelal, operations, the plight of refugees (including Jennifer Leaning, Noam Chomsky, Meghan Palestinians), and the most important issue

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 75 before the UN body—specifically, Syria. Nelson Tai Feng, Republic of China, Diplomat, Ministry Olivero (Guatemala, diplomat), Yael Marciano of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Institute, (Venezuela, journalist and attorney), Nancy Taipei. “Current Cross-Strait Relations: Problems Polutan (US, UNHCR), Richard Wright (UK, EU), and Prospects” and Emirhan Yorulmazlar (Turkey, diplomat) assisted in arranging meetings. The year ended Kwang-Jin Kim, South Korea, Colonel, Korean Air with two important visits, one to the US Military Force, Senior Policy Planner, Ministry of National Academy at West Point organized by US Defense, Seoul. No paper available. Army Fellow Stephen Mariano and one for a Yael Marciano, Venezuela, Media Analyst, small group of Fellows to Washington, DC and Attorney, Former Consultant to Inter-American Annapolis, Maryland; Andrew Homer Ring and Development Bank. No paper available. Kwang Jin Kim (Korean Air Force) arranged several meetings for this second trip. Shadia Marhaban, Indonesia, Human Rights Activist, President and Co-founder, Aceh Staff Women’s League. “Women in Post-Conflict Aceh: Participation in Socio-Economic and Kathleen Molony, Director, Fellows Program. Political Processes” Nirvana Abou-Gabal, Program Coordinator, Stephen J. Mariano, United States, Colonel, Fellows Program. United States Army, Director of Strategic Plans, Fellows Policies, and Assessments, US Army Africa G5, Vicenza, Italy. “US Army’s Small War Doctrine” The following list of Fellows includes country of (PhD Thesis) origin, position held prior to academic year, and title/topic of research paper. Kwan hyun Moon, Korea, Journalist, Assistant Editor, Yonhap News Agency, Seoul, Korea. No Albrecht Conze, Germany, Diplomat, Federal paper available. Foreign Office, Ambassador to Zimbabwe. “Emergence and Emancipation—A Fresh Look Nelson Olivero, Guatemala, Diplomat, Ministry at Africa” of Foreign Affairs, Minister Counselor, Embassy of Guatemala, Berlin. “Climate Protections Muhammad Nur Djuli, Indonesia, Peace in Guatemala: The Development Potential of Negotiator, Chairman and Co-founder, Aceh Green Energies” School for Peace and Democracy. “Does Lack of Employment among Ex-Combatants Lead to an Nancy Polutan, United States, Regional Increase of Violence in Post-Conflict Societies?” Integration Officer, Regional Representation for Central Europe, United Nations High Marsha Dubrow, United States, Entrepreneur, Commissioner for Refugees, Budapest. “Children Scholar, and Spiritual Leader, Managing Director and Their Search for a Home: What It Means To and Principal Consultant, The Dubrow Group, Be Stateless in the 21st Century” Cantor, Congregation B’nai Jacob, New Jersey. “On the Interrelationship of Women and Andrew H. Ring, United States, Lieutenant Economic Development in the Developing World Commander, United States Navy, Executive in 2012: Constraints and Opportunities” Officer, USS Jacksonville, Pearl Harbor, HI. “A US–South China Sea Perspective: Just Over Michael Fairbanks, United States, Philanthropist the Horizon” and Entrepreneur, Co-founder, The SEVEN Fund, Cambridge, MA. “China’s Strategy in Mark Slocum, United States, Colonel, United Africa: Myths, Realities and Opportunities” (with States Air Force, Senior Advisor, Iraqi Air Force. Mthuli Ncube) No paper available.

76 Programs J.S. Tissainayagam, Sri Lanka, Journalist, Nieman Speaker: Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Foundation for Journalism. No paper available. Professor, Political Science, Northeastern University, Democratic Party Nominee for Richard Wright, United Kingdom, Civil Servant, President of the United States, 1988, former European Commission, Director, Conflict Governor of Massachusetts. Prevention, Peacebuilding, and Security Policy, External Action Service, Brussels. October 28, 2011

Emirhan Yorulmazlar, Turkey, Diplomat, Ministry “The Arab Spring, Six Months Later” of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Special Advisor Speaker: Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor to Foreign Minister Davutoglu, Ankara. No of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic paper available. Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Friday Lunch Seminar for Fellows November 4, 2011 and WCFIA Visiting Scholars “A Conversation on Important Economic Chair: Kathleen Molony, Director, Development Topics” Fellows Program. Speaker: Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont September 9, 2011 University Professor, Department of Economics, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998. “Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics” November 18, 2011 Speaker: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center “The Underbelly of Negotiation: Dealing with the Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Emotional Dimension” Affairs, Department of Government. Speaker: Daniel Shapiro, Director, Harvard September 16, 2011 International Negotiation Program.

“The Future of US-Latin America Relations” January 27, 2012 Speaker: Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard “The Role of Religion in America” Academy for International and Area Studies, Speaker: Nancy Ammerman, Professor, Chair, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Department of Sociology, Boston University. Mexico, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University. February 3, 2012

September 23, 2011 “Has Globalization Passed Its Peak?” Speaker: Rawi Abdelal, Joseph C. Wilson “Twenty-first Century Policy Responses to the Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Obesity Epidemic and to Climate Change” Business School. Speaker: Robert L. Paarlberg, Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of February 17, 2012 Political Science, Wellesley College. “Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Good, the Bad, September 30, 2011 and the Ugly” Speaker: Robert M. Cassidy, PhD, Colonel, US “The US Congress and Foreign Policymaking Army, Military Professor, US Naval War College. Approaching the 2012 Elections” Speaker: David King, Lecturer in Public Policy, February 22, 2012 Harvard Kennedy School, Chair, Program for Newly Elected Members of US Congress. “Female Entrepreneurship” Speaker: Rohini Pande, Mohammed October 21, 2011 Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. No Talk Title

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 77 February 24, 2012 Civil War: Aceh versus Sri Lanka” Speakers: J.S. Tissainayagam (Tissa), Journalist; “The Future of US Foreign Policy” Shadia Marhaban, President and Co-founder, Speaker: Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Aceh Women’s League; Mary-Jo DelVecchio Professor of the Practice of International Good, Professor of Social Medicine, Department Relations, Belfer Center for Science and of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Department of Sociology, Harvard University; March 23, 2012 Eileen Babbitt, Professor of International Conflict Management Practice, Fletcher School of Law and “Africa” Diplomacy, Tufts University. Moderator: Kathleen Speaker: Robert Rotberg, President Emeritus, Molony, Director, WCFIA Fellows Program. World Peace Foundation, Director, Harvard March 28, 2012 Kennedy School Program on Intrastate Conflict, 1999–2010. “Women, Rights and Development: Issues March 30, 2012 and Insights” Speakers: Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. “China, Inc: A Reason for Worry or Not?” Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, Executive Speaker: Regina Abrami, Senior Fellow, Faculty Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Chair, Immersion Experience Program (IXP), Rights Studies; Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Harvard Business School. Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, International Coordinator, Women in Informal Employment– April 6, 2012 Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO); Marsha “Developments on the Korean Peninsula: Dubrow, Entrepreneur, Board Member, UN World An Update” Food Program USA; Sharmila L. Murthy, Fellow, Speaker: Stephen Bosworth, Dean, The Fletcher Human Right to Water and Sanitation Program, School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Former United States Special Representative for Kennedy School. Moderator: Kathleen Molony, North Korea Policy. Director, WCFIA Fellows Program.

April 13, 2012 April 25, 2012

“Lawyering for the President” “The Challenges to Anticipating and Preventing Speaker: David Barron, Honorable S. William Mass Violence: The Different Tools of Green Professor of Public Law, Harvard Humanitarian Response” Law School. Speakers: Charlie Clements, Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Adjunct April 27, 2012 Lecturer, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Nancy Polutan, Lawyer and Humanitarian “The US in the Middle East” Official, United Nations High Commissioner for Speaker: Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, Refugees; Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Emeritus, Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, WCFIA Roundtable on World Affairs Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Moderator: Kathleen Molony, Director, Chair: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Fellows Program. Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government. Harvard Academy for March 7, 2012 International and Area Studies The Harvard Academy for International and “The Role of Negotiated Settlement in Ending Area Studies is dedicated to increasing our

78 Programs knowledge of the culture, history, and institutions Studies, Department of African and African of the world’s major regions and countries. The American Studies. Academy is based on the premise that knowledge and understanding of other countries and cultures Steven Caton, Professor of Contemporary require a combination of rigorous disciplinary skill Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, and deep area expertise. The Academy Scholars Harvard University. Program was established to facilitate that goal Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg by supporting exceptional scholars at the start Professor of Government and Russian of their careers whose work combines excellence Studies, Chair, Department of Government, in a social science discipline (including history Harvard University. and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard regions. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, Academy for International and Area Studies, comparative, or transnational issues, past or Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of present. Those selected as Academy Scholars are Mexico, Vice Provost for International Affairs, given time, guidance, access to Harvard facilities, Harvard University. and substantial financial assistance as they work for two years conducting either dissertation or Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government, postdoctoral research in their chosen fields and Department of Government. areas. The Academy Graduate Fellows are full-time Henrietta Harrison, Professor of History, doctoral students at Harvard University who have Department of History. completed all coursework and examinations and most of their research. They receive the Fellowship Edward Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of as their dissertation completion year. The Senior Middle East History, Department of History. Scholars, a distinguished group of senior Harvard faculty, act as mentors to the Academy Scholars Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor and Graduate Fellows and help them realize their of Government, Department of Government, intellectual potential. The Academy also organizes Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, seminars and conferences, supports Harvard Harvard University. faculty research, and sponsors publications. Susan J. Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan The Academy supported eleven Academy Scholars Relations, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of and four Graduate Felows in 2011–2012. There Japanese Politics, Department of Government. were three author’s conferences in 2011-2012 to James A. Robinson, David Florence Professor of discuss manuscripts by Academy Scholars Jessica Government, Department of Government. Greenberg, Anne Clément, and Pascal Menoret. Mary M. Steedly, Professor of Anthropology, The Academy is an autonomous entity within Department of Anthropology. the framework of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Its leadership includes a Administration chairman and a committee of Senior Scholars appointed by the dean of the Faculty of Arts Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard and Sciences. The Senior Scholars act as the Academy for International and Area Studies, Academy’s oversight committee, select new Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Academy Scholars, and serve as their mentors. Mexico, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University. Senior Scholars Laurence H. Winnie, Executive Officer, Harvard Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science Academy for International and Area Studies. of Government, Department of Government, Professor of African and African American

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 79 Kathleen Hoover, Program Coordinator, Harvard Ruxandra Paul, PhD Candidate, Department of Academy for International and Area Studies. Government, Harvard University.

Academy Scholars Jeremy A. Yellen, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute Academy Scholar Research Topics of Technology. and Activities

Anne Clément, PhD, Department of Near and Fotini Christia. During the academic year 2011- Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. 2012, Christia published an article entitled “Context Modularity of Human Altruism” Dave Donaldson, Assistant Professor, Department (co-authored with Marc Alexander) in Science (9 of Economics, Massachusetts Institute December 2011). She also delivered her revised of Technology. book manuscript entitled Alliance Formation in Agustina Giraudy, PhD, Department of Political Civil War to Cambridge University Press with Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. a publication date set for September 2012. An article linked to Christia’s book, “Hydraheaded: Nur Amali Ibrahim, PhD, Department of Group Fractionalization in Multiparty Civil Anthropology, New York University. Wars,” is currently under review at Security Studies. In this second year at the Harvard Miriam L. Kingsberg, Assistant Professor, Academy, she also finished data collection for Department of History, University of Colorado, her ongoing collaborative project in Afghanistan Boulder. (with Andrew Beath and Ruben Enikolopov) that tries to assess the effects of development Stanislav Markus, Assistant Professor, Department aid on a range of economic and governance of Political Science, University of Chicago. outcomes using a randomized evaluation of a Elizabeth McGuire, PhD, Department of History, community-driven development program as the University of California, Berkeley. identification strategy. Using this new round of data, Christia and her co-authors produced Ameet Morjaria, PhD, Department of a working paper, “Following the Food Aid: Economics, London School of Economics and Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Local Political Science. Institutions on Governance Quality” for Princeton University’s May 2012 Conference on Causal Harris Mylonas, Assistant Professor of Inference Approaches. Three more papers Political Science and International Affairs, on Afghanistan co-authored with the same Department of Political Science and Elliott colleagues are under review: “Winning Hearts and School of International Affairs, George Minds through Development: Evidence from a Washington University. Field Experiment in Afghanistan” is under review Simeon Nichter, Assistant Professor, Department at the Quarterly Journal of Economics; the other of Political Science, University of California, two papers, “Women’s Empowerment through San Diego. Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan” and “Power to the People? Academy Graduate Fellows Experimental Evidence on Direct Democracy from Afghanistan,” are under review at the American Patrick Hamm, PhD Candidate, Department of Economic Review. In this academic year, Christia Sociology, Harvard University. was invited to give academic presentations on Johan Mathew, PhD Candidate, Department of her research at the Comparative Politics Seminar History, Harvard University. at Stanford University and Washington University St. Louis; at the Development Seminar at Boston University; at the International Relations Seminar

80 Programs at George Washington University; at Vanderbilt infrastructure investments, principally railroads, University; at the Program on Global Society in generating market integration and economic and Security at Harvard University; at the MIT- growth in colonial-era India. His current work PRIO co-sponsored conference on insurgency at examines the exposure of agricultural livelihoods Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and at the in India, in both modern-day and late colonial Peace and Conflict Research Seminar at Uppsala, time periods, to risk and volatility induced by Sweden. She also served as discussant and chair climatic fluctuations, as well as the extent to in two panels at the Association for the Study of which policy interventions mitigate the impact of Nationalities conference at Columbia University; these fluctuations. After spring term of research she gave a general interest talk at CISAC at at Stanford University, Donaldson returns in the Stanford University; and commented on WNYC fall to his position as assistant professor in the radio on Afghan developments at The Takeaway department of economics at the Massachusetts show in October 2011 and in February 2012, and Institute of Technology. on WNYC news in March 2012. Christia was also on the organizing committee, with Nahomi Ichino Agustina Giraudy. While the academic year from Harvard University, Macartan Humphreys was primarily devoted to working on her book from Columbia University, Ghazala Mansuri manuscript on subnational democracy in Latin from the World Bank, and Jeremy Weinstein America, Giraudy submitted two papers for from Stanford University, on the Experiments review in political science journals, one of which in Governance and Politics conference. She has been conditionally accepted at Studies in organized its meeting at Massachusetts Institute Comparative and International Development. A of Technology in November 2012, and helped piece discussing the state of the art in studies organize the conference at the University of of subnational democracy appeared in the British Columbia in Vancouver in April 2012. Comparative Democratization Newsletter of the American Political Science Association. Anne Clément. During the 2011–2012 academic In addition, Giraudy gave formal academic year, Clément used the Harvard Academy’s presentations at American University, Brown support to finish her dissertation and make her University, University of North Carolina, Chapel work known to a larger audience. She presented Hill, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin the results of her research at the 45th Annual American Studies at Harvard University, and at Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association the Harvard Academy for International and Area held in Washington, DC in December 2011. She Studies. A paper that addresses Giraudy’s second subsequently obtained very positive feedback on project on state territorial reach in Latin America her manuscript at the author’s conference that was presented at the American Political Science was organized for her by the Harvard Academy in Association (APSA) and the Latin American January 2012. Clément defended her dissertation Studies Association (LASA). In line with this at the University of Toronto in March 2012, and project, Giraudy was invited to participate in a was awarded the PhD degree with honors. In conference on Stateness in Latin America at the addition, she published an article entitled “A la Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, where recherche des ‘voix’ des fallahin dans un dossier she presented a new approach to classifying d’archives judiciaires égyptiennes” in the online, “hybrid states” in Latin America. The conference peer-reviewed journal Ateliers d’anthropologie. papers will be published in English in a special She also worked on two other articles. The first, issue of the Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile). “Rediscovering Jacques Berque,” will be published Finally, Giraudy (together with Juan Pablo Luna) in History Compass this coming winter. The second, were in charge of co-editing the second issue “Women, Violence, and the Law in the Egyptian of LASA Forum on “Stateness in Latin America.” Countryside (1884-1914),” is still in progress. This issue will feature papers from prominent US-based and Latin America-based scholars Dave Donaldson. Donaldson’s doctoral thesis working on the state in contemporary Latin investigated the impact of transportation America. In 2011–2012, Giraudy was hired as

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 81 assistant professor at the School of International Assimilation: Opium and Japan in the Meiji Period” Service at American University in Washington, appeared in the summer 2011 issue of The Social DC, where she will start teaching in fall 2013. History of Alcohol and Drugs. A short piece on the city of Dalian, where Kingsberg did most of the Nur Amali Ibrahim. During the academic year fieldwork for this project in 2007–2008, appeared 2011–2012 Ibrahim worked on rewriting his on the China Beat blog in August 2011. She also dissertation as a book manuscript, entitled published a review of a recent Japan history Defining Proper Islam: Indonesian Battles of dissertation online at dissertationreviews.org. Religious Interpretation. Two chapters from the manuscript have been converted into journal During the academic year, Kingsberg gave several articles and reviewed for publication: “On talks on her research. In November, Brandeis Reading: The Socialization of Liberal Muslims in University invited her to deliver a lecture, “Love Indonesia” (sent to American Ethnologist) and in the Time of Opium: The Centennial of the “Conversion Narratives: Secular Muslims Who Opium War in the Culture of Imperial Japan.” Become Islamists, Pious Muslims Who Become She also presented papers at the Association Liberals” (sent to Comparative Studies in Society for Asian Studies annual meeting in Toronto and History). A third article, “Humorless Muslims,” in March and the “Suffering Bodies during the which is not part of the book manuscript, is also Sino-Japanese War, 1931–1945” workshop at under review (at Journal of Islamic Studies). Harvard University in April. In May, she spoke Ibrahim presented aspects of his work at the at a conference on medicine and empire at the American Anthropological Association conference University of Chicago. Most of Kingsberg’s time in Montreal, the Social Science Research Council this year has been devoted to the development Inter-Asia workshop in Hong Kong, the Islamic of a new, full-length research project on the Religious Council of Singapore, and at working role of anthropologists and archaeologists in groups at the Department of Anthropology, evolving a national identity for Japan across the Harvard University. A prospectus of the book changing political contexts of imperialism, war, manuscript is currently being prepared, and will occupation, and independence, c. 1935–1970. In be sent to academic presses for consideration. the fall, she audited an introductory archaeology course to begin familiarizing herself with a new Miriam L. Kingsberg. After devoting most of field and research methodology. Kingsberg also last year to preparing her book manuscript for received a visiting researcher grant from the consideration by a scholarly publisher, Kingsberg Dumbarton Oaks Library in Washington, DC to be submitted Moral Nation: Modern Japan and used December 2012–January 2013. During the Narcotics in Global History to the University of summer Kingsberg will speak at the Drugs and California Press and Cambridge University Press Drink in Asia conference at Shanghai University, in October 2011. The manuscript is currently China. She has also submitted an article for under review. Three articles based on material publication in an edited collection based on this in the manuscript have been accepted for event. Kingsberg will spend two weeks visiting publication: “Legitimating Empire, Legitimating key archaeological sites in northwest China as Nation: The Study of Opium Addiction in part of the research for her new project. She Manchuria and the Japanese Empire” (Journal received funding for this trip from the University of Japanese Studies, summer 2012), “Status of Colorado and the Wellcome Trust. In August, and Smoke: Koreans in Japan’s Opium Empire” Kingsberg will resume her assistant professorship (Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in in the history department of the University of Modern Korean Diaspora, ed. Wen-hsin Yeh, Colorado, Boulder. University of California, Berkeley Institute for East Asian Studies, fall 2012), and “Methamphetamine Stanislav Markus. During the 2011–2012 academic Solution: Drugs and the Reconstruction of Nation year, Stanislav Markus published an article in in Postwar Japan” (Journal of Asian Studies, World Politics, “Secure Property as a Bottom-Up 2013). An article entitled “From Addiction to Process: Firms, Stakeholders, and Predators in

82 Programs Weak States”; he made critical progress on his for publication in the conference volume, Little book manuscript, Property, Predation, Protection; Red Book: A Global History of the Quotations of he planned, with the Academy’s support, an Chairman Mao, ed. Alex Cook, under contract at author’s conference for his book manuscript (for Cambridge University Press. She also gave a paper, September 2012); he made a research trip to “Remixing Revolution: Sino-Soviet Relations and Ukraine to collect more interview data for his book the Master Text,” at Stanford University’s Scripting project; he launched a second project on the rule Revolutions conference, November 4–5, 2011. She of law and presented it at the Academy Dinner; declined two invitations to publish articles in order Markus has also conducted a new survey of 500 to concentrate on completing her manuscript and enterprises in Russia—this data will be mostly beginning work on her second project. used in his second project. He has also submitted proposals to two conferences, both of which were Ameet Morjaria. During the academic year accepted (American Political Science Association 2011–2012, Morjaria has had a paper requested and Association for Slavic, East European, for revision at the American Economic Review, and Eurasian Studies). He reviewed an article “The Value of Relational Contracts: Evidence manuscript for Law and Social Inquiry, and he from a Supply Shock to Kenya Flower Exports” published a book review in Perspectives on Politics (with Rocco Macchiavello). An additional article of Daniel Treisman’s book The Return: Russia’s has been submitted to a journal and is currently Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev. Next year under review, “Guns and Roses: Flower Exports he returns as assistant professor in the department and Electoral Violence in Kenya” (with Chris Ksoll of political science at the University of Chicago. and Rocco Macchiavello). Two other working papers have been redrafted and are close to Elizabeth McGuire. Elizabeth McGuire completed submission, “Ethnic Favoritism and Democracy” the second year of her Academy Fellowship. In (with Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Ted Miguel, the past year, she continued revisions of her and Gerard Padro I Miqul), and “Electoral manuscript based on the feedback she received Competition and Deforestation: Evidence from in the Academy-sponsored author’s conference Kenya.” Two new articles from recent research in April 2011. McGuire’s book proposal has been travels to Ethiopia (December–January) accepted at Oxford University Press and she and Rwanda (May–June) are in preparation, anticipates sending the manuscript for outside “Development Blossoming: Industrial Policy review in fall 2012. In the fall 2011 McGuire and Flower Exports in Ethiopia” (with Rocco became the Russia editor for a new online journal, Macchiavello) and “Competition, Efficiency and Dissertation Reviews, published at Stanford Credit Access of Coffee Washing Stations in University. During the course of the academic Rwanda” (with Rocco Macchiavello). In addition, year she completed an article “Sino-Soviet, Every Morjaria gave formal academic presentations Day: Geopolitics and Ordinary Life for Chinese at the Harvard Sustainable Science Seminar Communists in the 1930s USSR,” for publication in (Harvard Kennedy School), the Harvard IO Everyday Life in Russia: Strategies, Subjectivities, Workshop, the MIT Political Economy Breakfast, and Perspectives, ed. David Ransel et al. She World Bank ABCDE 2012, NEUDC Yale 2011, the gave a paper, “The Second Marriage of Emi Siao, Harvard Development Lunch, and the Working Poet of Sino-Soviet Romance: Soviet Identity in Group of African Political Economy at the Global Context” for a panel that she organized University of California, San Diego. at the Association for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies annual conference, Peripheral Harris Mylonas. During the academic year Plotlines: New Stories about Being Soviet 2011–2012 Mylonas worked on the final revisions Inside the Union and Out. McGuire attended a of his book, The Politics of Nation-Building: conference at University of California, Berkeley, Making Co-Nationals, Refugees and Minorities to Global History of Mao’s Little Red Book, and be published by Cambridge University Press at drafted an article, “The Book that Bombed: the end of 2012. He also published three articles Mao’s Little Red Thing in the Soviet Union,” in political science journals: “The Promethean

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 83 Dilemma: Third-Party State-building in Occupied a graduate seminar, “Immigration, Identity and Territories” and “The Promethean Dilemma Assimilation” at the Harvard University Department Revisited: A Response to Bardos, Christia, of Sociology and “Forced Migration and Human Gortzak, & Siroky and Jenne” (with Keith Darden) Rights” at Harvard Law School. This new project in Ethnopolitics; and “Greece” (with George builds on his past work on repatriation policies, Th. Mavrogordatos) in the European Journal but also on a more systematic data collection of Political Research. Three additional articles effort that he initiated this year. In December were submitted to journals and are currently and early January, he conducted a research trip under review at Security Studies, Political Science during which he collected data and conducted Quarterly, and Nationalities Papers. Mylonas more than twenty-five interviews in Athens, also published two chapters in edited volumes, Istanbul, Skopje, Belgrade, and Brussels. In spring “Is Greece a Failing Developed State?” in The 2011, he presented on the topic at the Council Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy for European Studies conference, Boston, MA; Yearbook 2011: The Global Economic Crisis and the Post-Communist Politics and Economics the Case of Greece and “Ottoman, Nationalist, and Workshop, Harvard University; The Comparative Communist Legacies in the Balkans” in Balkans: Approaches to Immigration and Religious and Contributions to History, Culture and Civilization, Ethnic Diversity Workshop, Princeton University; and a review of Carole McGranahan’s new book and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories for Scholars, Washington, DC. In terms of service to of a Forgotten War, in the Journal of Cold War the profession, for the third year in a row, Mylonas Studies. Mylonas also made significant progress served as a member of the Nationalism and the on six more papers: “Fighting the ‘Enemy Within’: Film sections of the Program Committee and on State Responses toward Externally Leveraged the book prize committee for the best book on Minorities” (with Erin Jenne); “Which Land is ethnicity or nationalism in Eastern/Central Europe, Our Homeland? Explaining Variation in Border Balkans, and the Former Soviet Union for ASN’s Claims” (with Nadav Shelef); “Peripheries, State (Association of the Study of Nationalities) Annual Capacity, and Great Power Politics: Accounting for World Convention at Columbia University. He was Secession in the Ottoman Empire”; “Center-Right also appointed to the executive committee of the Party Organization: Does Party Structure affect Association and made Convention Coordinator Electoral Success?” (with Nasos Roussias); “When of ASN’s Annual World Convention, which brings are Repatriates Free To Move? Policies toward together more than 700 scholars, doctoral Repatriate Groups in Post-Cold War Greece”; candidates, policy analysts, and NGO practitioners. “External Actors and Secessionist Movements” Finally, he was recently appointed Associate (with Mark Kramer). Beyond his academic Editor of Nationalities Papers, a leading journal publications Mylonas published several op-eds, in the field. Mylonas also served as the faculty five on CNN.com: “Regional Multilateralism: The advisor for the Harvard College Hellenic Society Next Paradigm in Global Affairs”(with Emirhan for the academic year. He gave presentations at Yorulmazlar); “What Really Went Wrong in the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Political Greece?” (with Evan Liaras); “Greece’s Legitimacy Science Association; the 17th Annual ASN World Crisis” (with Thomas Meaney); “Are Greece’s Convention, Columbia University; the 2012 Midwest Leaders Reckless or Bold?” (with Thomas Meaney); Political Science Association conference, Chicago, and one in Kathimerini: “The End of Peaceful IL; the Ethnicity Data Workshop at University Protest?” During the year, Mylonas was interviewed of California, Los Angeles; the Order, Conflict by Korean radio about the Greek financial and and Violence Speaker Series, Yale University; political crises and discussed the future of Euro- York University, Toronto, Canada; the Middle Atlantic integration of the Western Balkans on East Political Workshop, Harvard University; the Greek TV. During his second year at the Academy, PONARS Eurasia Bishkek workshop, Kyrgyzstan. Mylonas also embarked on a new book project He also gave invited lectures at the Foreign tentatively entitled The Politics of Repatriation. In Service Institute, Washington, DC; the Fletcher fall 2011, he audited two migration-related courses: School-Political Science Department Joint

84 Programs Faculty Seminar; the 2011 Harvard Leadership Development, and presented this work at the Conference, and at a conference organized by Harvard Academy, the David Rockefeller Center the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Policy (ELIAMEP) and Navarino Network in Greece. and at the International Congress of the Latin Mylonas also participated at the sixth meeting of American Studies Association. Nichter submitted the Working Group on the Western Balkans, the the manuscript “Conceptualizing Vote Buying” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, to a political science journal, and presented and Washington, DC, and the Sourcebook seminar served as a discussant at the annual meeting on Religious Freedom and the Struggle against of the American Political Science Association. Extremism, organized by the Berkley Center for He presented work on clientelism and civil Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown society at the Center for Global Development in University. Mylonas also served as a discussant Washington, DC. In addition, Nichter collaborated on the book panel on Oxana Shevel’s new book with a Brazilian judge to launch a survey of 3,000 Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in electoral offices in Brazil, commenced work on Postcommunist Europe at the Council for European patronage in Brazil with Joana Monteiro, and Studies Conference. Mylonas will spend his summer continued his involvement in the 2012 Mexico conducting research on his second book project in Panel Study. Nichter will join the Department of Turkey, Serbia, Greece, UK, Belgium, and the USA. Political Science at the University of California, In fall 2012, he will return to George Washington San Diego as an assistant professor in July 2012. University teaching an undergraduate course on nationalism and a graduate seminar on nationalism Academy Graduate Fellow Research and nation-building. Topics and Activities

Simeon Nichter. During the academic year Patrick Hamm. During the 2011–2012 academic 2011–2012, Nichter made substantial progress year, Hamm’s principal objective was the on his book manuscript, The Politics of Vote completion of his dissertation, “Food Production Buying: Brazil in Comparative Perspective. His During the Transition to Capitalism: A Comparative article manuscript “Varieties of Clientelism: Political Economy of Russia and China.” Drawing Machine Politics during Elections” (with Jordan on the resources and generous support provided Gans-Morse and Sebastian Mazzuca) received by the Harvard Academy, he successfully an invitation to revise and resubmit from the submitted his thesis in April 2012; the defense American Journal of Political Science. Nichter was held on May 1. In addition to working on his authored “Vote Buying in Brazil: From Impunity dissertation, Hamm finalized the revisions on a to Prosecution,” a paper he presented at the manuscript which appeared in the April 2012 Harvard University conference Ruling Politics: issue of the American Sociological Review under The Formal and Informal Foundations of Power in the title “Mass Privatization, State Capacity, and New Democracies. Nichter’s “Political Clientelism Economic Growth in Post-Communist Countries” and Social Policy: The Case of Brazil” was (with Lawrence P. King and David Stuckler). During accepted for publication as a chapter in Political both semesters, Hamm attended the Faculty Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Seminar on Communist and Post-communist Democracy: Evidence from Latin America, Lessons Countries organized by Professors Timothy Colton, from Other Regions published by Johns Hopkins Jorge I. Domínguez, Grzegorz Ekiert, and Elizabeth University Press. Nichter co-authored “Voter Perry; he especially appreciated the opportunity to Buying: Shaping the Electorate with Clientelism” present his research at one of the sessions. Overall, (with F. Daniel Hidalgo) and presented this paper Patrick has benefitted greatly from being a part of at Stanford University’s Comparative Politics the small but vibrant intellectual community at the Workshop and at the University of Connecticut. Harvard Academy. Hamm will likely spend the next He submitted the paper “Vote Buying, Healthcare year in Germany (his home country) for family and Sterilization in Brazil” for publication reasons; during this time, he hopes to find an as a working paper at the Center for Global affiliation as a visiting scholar and continue work

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 85 on several incipient projects and explore avenues her dissertation “Citizens of the Market: New for publishing his dissertation; he expects to seek Forms of International Migration and Their academic employment in 2013–2014. Consequences for People, Parties and Political Systems.” A PhD candidate in the Department of Johan Mathew. Mathew began the year with a trip Government Department at Harvard University, to India and the United Kingdom to finalize his Paul completed the Geographic Information dissertation research. He then spent the majority Systems Institute at Harvard’s Center for of his year as a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard Geographic Analysis, becoming a research Academy completing his PhD dissertation. He associate of the center. With newly acquired successfully submitted his dissertation, “Margins GIS skills, she produced the maps needed to of the Market: Smuggling and the Framing of illustrate her original, interdisciplinary research Global Capitalism in the Arabian Sea, 1873–1966,” project. In 2011–2012, Paul wrote a chapter for to Harvard’s Department of History in June. an edited volume on new directions in political The work was greatly aided by discussions with socialization research and presented her work Senior Scholars, Academy Scholars, and Graduate in numerous conferences and seminars: the Fellows at the Harvard Academy. While the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science dissertation itself took up the bulk of Mathew’s Association in Seattle, WA; the International time, he was simultaneously engaged in a Conference of Europeanists of the Council for number of additional activities and projects. He European Studies; Harvard’s Faculty Seminar on submitted an article: “Trafficking Labor: Abolition Communist and Post-Communist Countries; the and the Exchange of Labor in the Arabian Sea, Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation 1861–1947,” which was published in the peer- Workshop; the Transnational Studies Initiative at reviewed journal Slavery & Abolition in March the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; 2012. Mathew attended the American Historical the History, Institutions and Politics Workshop Association’s Annual Meeting in Chicago and for scholars in the Boston area; and the Women the Middle East Studies Association’s Annual in Security Studies roup at Harvard Universityß. Meeting in Washington, DC, where he presented She developed a collaborative project on the paper “Gentlemanly Capitalists and Salacious repatriation policies with Academy Scholar Harris Smugglers.” He was an active participant in two Mylonas. Currently, Paul is finalizing an article graduate student workshops at Harvard: the for Nationalities Papers and two other articles South Asian Studies Workshop and Middle East that she wrote during her year as an Academy Beyond Borders: Culture, Religion, Politics, as well Graduate Fellow. In continuation of her activity as as regularly attending the seminar series, Islam vice-president of the Graduate Student Council, on the Indian Ocean Rim, at Tufts University. Paul organized in November 2011 the Harvard Lastly, he was very grateful for the Harvard Leadership Conference, Collaborating for Change, Academy’s resources in making his way through a part of the University’s 375th anniversary the job search process. Mathew was a finalist festivities. 400 graduate students from Harvard’s for positions at Colgate University, New York twelve schools attended the conference. As University Abu Dhabi, University of Wisconsin, the organizer-representative on behalf of the Madison, and University of Massachusetts, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Paul Amherst. In September, he will be an assistant initiated, coordinated, and obtained funding for professor on the tenure track at the University of the thematic studio space “Beyond the State: Massachusetts, Amherst, where he will take up a What is Your Transnational Strategy?” to which joint appointment between the departments of Academy Scholar Harris Mylonas contributed as history and economics. an invited speaker. In fall 2011, Paul was invited to become a member of the Public Policy Experts Ruxandra Paul. With the Harvard Academy’s Initiative of the Romanian Academic Society. She support, Paul was able to access crucial statistical also participated in the Student Leadership 2011 data from databases in Eastern Europe, which conference organized by the League of Romanian allowed her to develop the quantitative part of Students Abroad and the Romanian Embassy in

86 Programs Washington, DC. Paul writes a weekly column on the year. For the next year he will remain at national and international politics in Romania’s Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the leading daily newspaper Romania Libera. This Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. spring she appeared in an extended interview in the first episode of a Romanian National Academy Scholar Presentations Television documentary about Romanian scholars September 14, 2011 living abroad. In May 2012, Paul was awarded the Harvard Hoopes Prize “for excellence in the “Which Land Is Our Land? Explaining Variation in art of teaching.” She received the Certificate of Border Claims” Achievement in the Practice of Teaching in Higher Speaker: Harris Mylonas, Assistant Professor Education granted by the Derek Bok Center for of Political Science and International Affairs, Teaching and Learning at Harvard. In the spring Department of Political Science and Elliott semester, Paul co-taught the second edition of the School of International Affairs, George pedagogy seminar Designing the Course of the Washington University. Future (funded by a Teagle Foundation grant) at October 11, 2011 the Bok Center. The class teaches PhD students how to design their own course syllabi from “Electoral Competition and Deforestation: Micro scratch, apply innovative teaching methods, and Evidence from Kenya” develop their teaching philosophies. Paul advised Speaker: Ameet Morjaria, PhD, Department of a senior thesis in Social Studies and served on the Economics, London School of Economics and Board of Freshmen Advisers. Next year, Paul will Political Science. teach her own course on European Union politics in Harvard’s Department of Government. November 14, 2011

Jeremy A. Yellen. Thanks to the generous support “Can Openness to Trade Reduce Income from the Harvard Academy, during the 2011–2012 Volatility? Evidence from the Demise of Famine in academic year Yellen finished the first draft of his Colonial India” dissertation, “The Two Pacific Wars, 1940–1945: Speaker: Dave Donaldson, Assistant Professor, Japan, Burma, the Philippines, and the Greater Department of Economics, Massachusetts East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” Yellen turned in Institute of Technology. the final draft of his dissertation on July 1, 2012, February 7, 2012 and will have completed all the requirements for his PhD in Harvard University’s Department “More than Rule of Dough? Post-communist of History. During the academic year, Yellen’s Reality Meets Rule-of-law Theories” paper “The Specter of Revolution: Reconsidering Speaker: Stanislav Markus, Assistant Professor, Japan’s Decision to Surrender,” which deals with Department of Political Science, University the political decision in Tokyo to surrender in of Chicago. August 1945, was accepted for publication in February 29, 2012 International History Review. He also completed the first draft of an article on wartime visions “Subnational Undemocratic Regime Continuity of world order in East Asia that he intends to after National Democratization: Evidence from submit to a diplomatic history journal. Yellen Latin America” also helped organize a panel and took part in Speaker: Agustina Giraudy, PhD, Department of one major conference, the Association of Asian Political Science, University of North Carolina, Studies annual conference in Tokyo. His panel Chapel Hill. talk, “Liberal Internationalism and Its Discontents: Yabe Teiji’s New Order in the Pacific War,” dealt April 3, 2012 with an understudied Japanese intellectual, Tokyo “Clientelism, Healthcare, and Sterilization Imperial University Professor Yabe Teiji. Yellen in Brazil” plans to develop this paper for publication within

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 87 Speaker: Simeon Nichter, Assistant Professor, Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University (Academy Department of Political Science, University of Scholar 2008–2010), received the Best Paper California, San Diego. Award for her presentation “How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women? A Author’s Conferences Comparison of Two Cairo Neighborhoods.” The award is presented for the best paper presented at In 2004–2005 the Academy inaugurated a the 2010 APSA meeting on women and politics. program of author’s conferences for its Academy Scholars. Each of these half-day workshops Melani Cammett, Brown University (Academy brought scholars—including both Harvard Scholar 2005–2006 and 2007–2008), with and outside faculty—together to comment on Sukriti Issar won the Alexander George Article/ specific sections of an Academy Scholar’s book Book Award for “Brick and Mortar Clientelism: manuscript. These workshops provided valuable Sectarianism and the Logics of Welfare Allocation opportunities for Academy Scholars to obtain in Lebanon,” World Politics 62(3) (July 2010) feedback on their work before publication. 381–421.

During 2011–2012 three Academy Scholars Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University benefited from this program: Jessica Greenberg, (Academy Scholar 2002–2003 and 2006–2007), Anne Clément, and Pascal Menoret. with Jeremy Weinstein received recognition for their syllabus “African Civil Wars in Comparative Junior Faculty Development Grants Perspective: A Research Seminar.” Their syllabus The Harvard Academy continued to support was selected by the APSA Task Force on Political faculty research at Harvard through its Junior Violence and Terrorism as a model course on Faculty Development Grant program. These political violence and terrorism for use at the grants offer junior faculty opportunities to secondary and college levels. “African Civil Wars extend their knowledge of the language, culture, in Comparative Perspective” provides a broad history, politics, and institutions of non-Western survey of the most promising research into societies. In 2011-2012 the Academy awarded African civil wars from an economic and political five new Junior Faculty Development Grants. science perspective. Ryan Enos (government) will study the effects Monika Nalepa, Notre Dame University (Academy of ethnic contact and segregation on intergroup Scholar 2006–2007 and 2009), received the Best attitudes and political behavior in Israel and the Book Award in Comparative Democratization occupied West Bank. Filiz Garip (sociology) will for Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in investigate the changing patterns of migration Post-Communist Systems (Cambridge University from Mexico to the US from 1970 to 2000. Press, 2010). Tamara Kay (sociology) will be gathering data for a comparative study of how economic Prerna Singh, Harvard University (Academy development organizations build transnational Scholar 2012–2013), was awarded Honorable relationships and engage in collaborative work. Mention in the Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award Dustin Tingley (government) will study the role for “Subnationalism and Social Development: A of political parties and economic actors in the Comparative Analysis of Indian States.” The Juan 2007 referendum in Costa Rica on the Central Linz Prize is presented to the best dissertation in American Free Trade Agreement. Finally, Felix the comparative study of democracy completed Warneken (psychology) will pilot a cross-cultural and accepted in the two calendar years study of the development of fairness in grade immediately prior to the APSA Annual Meeting. school–age children, beginning in Senegal. The Academy occasionally hears from the OTHER NEWS field—in this case from Academy Scholar Fotini Christia, emailing from Kabul, Afghanistan, Five Harvard Academy Scholars received awards September 14, 2011. She was evaluating a at the 2011 American Political Science Association Annual meeting in Seattle, WA.

88 Programs community-driven development program under Administration the auspices of the World Bank: “Was in a bunker with 35 others for 6 hours with RPGs flying Erez Manela, Director, Program on Global Society around and random militants on the street (the and Security, Professor of History, Department of World Bank office is a couple of blocks away History, Harvard University. from the embassy). But I got our Afghan staff Ann Townes, Program Coordinator, Program on to do some Koranic recitation and we tried to Global Society and Security. find different ways to kill time. I am hoping to get out soon. I am getting really burnt out and Fellows security is deteriorating rapidly. My study is still under way, and I have become best friends with Tyson Belanger, PhD Candidate, Department of all the district governors and chiefs of police in Government, Harvard University. my evaluation districts as well as with the tribal links (euphemism for the Taliban) in the difficult Andrew Coe, PhD Candidate, Department of areas. Thank God I am at the Academy this year Government, Harvard University. because I need some time to recuperate when Richard Nielsen, PhD Candidate, Department of I get back…. Give my best regards to all. I look Government, Harvard University. forward to getting back!” Asher Orkaby, PhD Candidate, History and Middle In the fall of 2010 the Harvard Academy initiated Eastern Studies, Department of History, Harvard its new Graduate Fellows Program. The Harvard University. Academy Graduate Fellows are Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences graduate students in Jonathan Renshon, PhD Candidate, Department the social sciences who are in their dissertation of Government, Harvard University. completion year. Graduate Fellows work in non- Western regions, in keeping with the mission Jane Vaynman, PhD Candidate, Department of of the Academy. They are supported by the Government, Harvard University. Academy, share offices, and participate in all Yuri M. Zhukov, PhD Candidate, Department of Academy events. In academic year 2012–2013 the Government, Harvard University. Academy will be pleased to welcome Dong-Kyun Im (sociology), Richard Nielsen (government), Affiliate and Chana Teeger (sociology). Charles G. Cogan, Senior Associate Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center Program on Global Society for Science and International Affairs, Harvard and Security Kennedy School. The Program on Global Society and Security (PGSS) is intended to support the study of Program on Global Society and human security, broadly construed. The central Security Seminar purposes of PGSS are to support basic, policy- relevant research on topics related to the The Program on Global Society and Security security challenges facing the United States and (PGSS) seminar is a weekly two-hour seminar other nations globally and to prepare scholars that provides a forum for scholars and for positions in colleges, universities, research practitioners with a background in security institutes, and government. The program awards studies. PGSS fellows, scholars from Harvard and predoctoral fellowships, funds the research of other universities, and practitioners present and individual scholars, supports related teaching at receive feedback on their recent work. Topics Harvard University, undertakes research projects span a wide range of security-related issues: on critical topics, and publishes working papers. armed conflict; international politics, institutions, and law; and global issues. Each paper is

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 89 distributed in advance of the weekly meeting to November 29, 2011 stimulate in-depth discussion. “Winning Hearts and Minds through Development Seminar Chair Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan” Erez Manela, Director, Program on Global Society Speaker: Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor, and Security, Professor of History, Department of Political Science Department, Massachusetts History, Harvard University. Institute of Technology. September 13, 2011 February 7, 2012 “The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime “Aiding Conflict: The Impact of US Food Aid on and the Case of Human Trafficking” Civil War” Speaker: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Speaker: Nancy Qian, Assistant Professor, Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of Department of Economics, Yale University. International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University. March 6, 2012

September 27, 2011 “Who Supports Partition? Insights from a New Survey in Sudan” “Nuclear Statecraft: Reassessing the History of Speaker: Bernd Beber, Assistant Professor, the Atomic Age” Department of Politics, New York University. Speaker: Francis Gavin, Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of April 3, 2012 Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin. “A Strategic Logic of Nuclear Proliferation” October 11, 2011 Speaker: Nuno Monteiro, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University. “How Do Non-state Actors Fight? Explaining the Military Choices of Guerillas, Warlords, Militias, April 17, 2012 and Mercenaries” Speaker: Stephen Biddle, Roger Hertog “Hit the Road, Jack? How War Outcomes Affect Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Leader Tenure” Foreign Relations. Speaker: Sarah Croco, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, University of October 18, 2011 Maryland, College Park.

“Democracies and the Credibility of April 24, 2012 Coercive Threats” Speaker: Alexander Downes, Associate Professor “‘Conspiring Bastards’: Saddam Hussein’s of Political Science and International Affairs, Strategic View of the United States” George Washington University. Speaker: Hal Brands, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and History, Sanford School of Public November 15, 2011 Policy, Duke University.

Professional development session Speakers: Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor, Program on Transatlantic Political Science Department, Massachusetts Relations Institute of Technology; Kelly Greenhill, Associate The Program on Transatlantic Relations was Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts created at the end of 2007 as a result of an University; Jackie Newmyer Deal, President, CEO, initiating donation by Pierre Keller, a former Long Term Strategy Group. Fellow of the Center who is presently a member of the Center’s Advisory Committee. Working in close cooperation with the Minda

90 Programs de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Studies, in collaboration with experts from the and Harvard Kennedy School, the program greater Boston community, and the Weatherhead endeavors to strengthen research and teaching Center’s annual June conference in Talloires, on transatlantic issues within the University, France. focusing on European and North American social, economic, political, security, and environmental The program’s director is Karl Kaiser, adjunct issues that are of particular relevance to the professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy transatlantic relationship. School. Ann Townes, assistant to director Karl Kaiser, supports the program. Special events organized by the program include the Paul-Henri Spaak Lecture Series. European Adminstration Commission President José Manuel Barroso Karl Kaiser, Director, Program on Transatlantic was the speaker in September 2008. The 2010 Relations, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, speaker was European Union Foreign Minister, Harvard Kennedy School. Baroness Catherine Ashton. Ann Townes, Assistant to Karl Kaiser. The program supports visiting scholars and public servants who have distinguished themselves Fritz Thyssen Fellows in the field of transatlantic relations. In spring 2009, the first Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Ulrich Krotz, Assistant Professor of Political Dominique Moïsi, senior adviser of the French Science, Brown University. Institute of International Relations, Paris, taught Gabriele S. Spilker, Postdoctoral Researcher, two courses in the Department of Government. Center for Comparative and International Studies, Subsequent Pierre Keller Visiting Professors ETH Zurich. include: Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs (spring 2010), professor of European and global governance Laura Von Daniels, PhD Candidate, Department and director of the Master of Public Policy of Political Science, Free University of Berlin. Program at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; Dr. Michael Landesmann (fall 2010), Pierre Keller Visiting Professor scientific director, Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies and professor of economics, Jaques Mistral (spring 2012), Head of Economic Johannes Kepler University, Linz; and Dr. Jacques Studies, French Institute of International Relations Mistral, professor of economics and head of (ifri), Paris. economic studies at the French Institute of Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow International Relations and a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (Prime Minister’s Gerald Steiner, Associate Professor, Institute of office), Paris (spring 2012). System Science, Innovation, and Sustainability Research, University of Graz, Austria. The program also facilitates research appointments for Europeans at the University Visiting Scholar (including Fritz Thyssen Fellows and Schumpeter Fellows), supports research on transatlantic Michal Koran (spring 2012), Head of Research, issues by Harvard faculty and students, facilitates Institute for International Relations, Prague. visits of European Union representatives to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century Seminar Associates series, and sponsors the Weatherhead Center’s Bjoern H. Seibert, Policy Advisor, Policy Planning Transatlantic Relations Seminar. and Advisory Staff, Federal Ministry of Defense, The program also supports the Study Group on Berlin. the Future of the European Union, co-sponsored Fabio Wasserfallen, PhD Candidate, Department with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European of Political Science, University of Zurich.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 91 Conferences International Relations” Speaker: Simon Koschut, The University of Friendship in International Relations: Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Conceptions and Practices Panel III: “What Friends Are For”: Empirical February 24, 2012 Cases of Friendship in International Relations Chairs Chair: Karl Kaiser, Director, Program on Simon Koschut, Assistant Professor, International Transatlantic Relations, Adjunct Professor of Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Germany. “Being Friends without Being Allies? Canada and Stephan Stetter, Professor of International Politics the USA” and Conflict Studies, Bundeswehr University Speaker: Caroline Patsias, University of Québec, Munich, Germany. Montréal, Canada.

Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Noe “The Making of Franco-German Friendship: A and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in Dynamic Perspective” World Affairs, Department of Government, Speaker: Antoine Vion, Aix-Marseille University, Harvard University. France

Panel I: “What’s in a Name?” Defining the “From Enmity to Amity: Germany’s Reconciliation Meaning of Friendship in International Relations with Poland” Speaker: Lily Gardner-Feldman, The Johns Chair: Simon Koschut, Assistant Professor, Hopkins University International Studies, University of Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany. Panel IV: Measuring Friendship: Methodological Problems and Solutions “Friendship in Politics: Amity in and between States” Chair: Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Speaker: Graham M. Smith, Lancaster University, Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China United Kingdom. in World Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University. “Friends, There Are No Friends? An Intimate Reframing of the International” “Of ‘Friends’ and ‘Enemies’: Expanding the Speaker: Felix Berenskoetter, University of Amity/Enmity Variable within Regional Security London, United Kingdom. Complex Theory” Speaker: Kevork Oskanian, London School of Panel II: Theorizing about Friendship in Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. International Relations “The Language of Friendship in Chair: Stephan Stetter, Professor of International International Treaties” Politics and Conflict Studies, Bundeswehr Speaker: Heather Devere, University of Otago, University Munich, Germany. New Zealand. “The Concept of Friendship in International This conference was co-sponsored by the History: from Princes to States” University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Speaker: Evgeny Roshchin, University of Program on Transatlantic Relations. Funding Jyväskylä, Finland. for the conference was provided by the Fritz “Friendship and the International System” Thyssen Foundation. Speaker: Andrea Oelsner, University of Aberdeen, Weatherhead Center for International United Kingdom. Affairs conference in Talloires, France

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92 Programs June 15–17, 2012 Speaker: Ulrike Guérot, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Berlin Office, European Council See Weatherhead Center for International Affairs on Foreign Relations. conference in Talloires, France, page 17. Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies Seminars and the Boston Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany. Challenges of the twenty-first Century: European and American October 25, 2011 Perspectives The Future of the Euro: Panel Discussion Challenges of the Twenty-First Century is a Speakers: Gordon Bajnai, Former Prime Minister seminar series that brings high-ranking European of Hungary; Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Commission officials and other prominent Professor of International Economics, Department Europeans to Harvard to discuss issues of of Economics, Harvard University; Jeffry A. concern for the future of the European Union and Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International transatlantic relations. Since its inception in 1996, Peace, Department of Government, Harvard the series has examined topics such as common University; Hans-Helmut Kotz, Senior Fellow, foreign and security policy, the European Monetary Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University, Union, many issues related to EU enlargement, Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Economics the state of transatlantic relations, and trade and and Behavioral Sciences, Freiburg University, competition strategy. The visitor during fall 2011 Former member of the Bundesbank Board; Vivien was Pierre Vimont, Executive Secretary General of Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of International the new European External Action Service. Politics, Boston University.

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzberg Center Center and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for for European Studies. European Studies. November 15, 2011 Seminar Chair “The EU’s Military Operations and Renée Haferkamp, Former Director General, Multilateral Intervention” European Commission, Affiliate, Minda de Speaker: Katarina Engberg, Deputy Director Gunzburg Center for European Studies, General, Environment, Climate Change and Harvard University. Security, Swedish Ministry of Defense. Discussant: Jolyon Howorth, Visiting Professor of Political October 11, 2011 Science and International Affairs, Yale University.

“The EU Foreign Policy: One Year after the Co-sponsored by The Minda de Gunzberg Center Setting Up of a European Diplomatic Service” for European Studies. Speaker: Pierre Vimont, Executive Secretary General, European External Action Service. November 29, 2011 Chair: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University “The Interaction of the EU’s Common Foreign Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Security Policy and National Foreign Policy: The Kennedy School. Case of Cooperation with the US” Study Group on the Future of the Speaker: Richard Wright, Senior Civil Servant, European Union European Commission, Brussels. Joint session of the Study Group on the Future October 5, 2011 of the European Union and the Transatlantic “The New German Question: How Can Europe Get Relations Seminar. Co-sponsored by The Minda de the Germany It Needs?” Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 93 December 5, 2011 Speaker: David Miliband, MP and former UK Secretary of State for Foreign and “Germany and the Euro-Crisis” Commonwealth Affairs. Speaker: Guido Goldman, Director of German Studies, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Studies, Harvard University, member, Kuratorium for European Studies. of the Hertie-School of Governance, Berlin. April 10, 2012 Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the American Council on Germany. “France and the European Union” Speaker: Jacques Mistral, Head of Economic February 14, 2012 Studies, French Institute of International Relations (ifri), Paris. “The Future of the Euro” Speakers: Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Visiting Scholar, Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Program on Transatlantic Relations, Former for European Studies. Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank; Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor Transatlantic Relations Seminar of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard September 29, 2011 University; Karl Kaiser, Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations. Adjunct Professor of “Security Policy after the Libya Crisis: A Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. British Perspective” Speaker: William Wallace, Government Whip and Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Spokesman on Foreign Policy and Defense, House for European Studies. of Lords, United Kingdom. March 21, 2012 Co-sponsored by The Minda de Gunzburg Center “The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on European for European Studies. Welfare States” November 1, 2011 Speakers: Maurizio Ferrera, Professor of Social and Labour Market Policy, State University of “NATO and Modern Security: An Alliance for the Milan; Anton Hemerijck, Dean and Professor in 21st Century” Institutional Policy Analysis, Faculty of Social Speaker: Major General Mark Barrett, US Air Sciences, VU University Amsterdam. Force, Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Allied Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Command Transformation, Norfolk, VA. for European Studies. November 29, 2011 March 27, 2012 “The Interaction of the EU’s Common Foreign “The Role of the Czech Republic and the Other Security Policy and National Foreign Policy: The Visegrad States in the Present Developments of Case of Cooperation with the US” the EU” Speaker: Richard Wright, Senior Civil Servant, Speaker: Michal Koran, Head of Research, European Commission, Brussels. Institute for International Relations, Prague. Joint session of the Study Group on the Future Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center of the European Union and the Transatlantic for European Studies. Relations Seminar. Co-sponsored by The Minda de April 3, 2012 Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

“The Future of the EU: Two Tier, Multi-speed or February 29, 2012 Variable Geometry” “British Defense and Security Policy: The Impact

94 Programs of the Strategic Defense and Security Review” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Speaker: Peter Watkins, Director General, Defence Fletcher School of Law and Dipplomacy at Tufts Academy of the United Kingdom. University, other neighboring institutions, as well as interested members of the wider community.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations enables of Japanese Politics, serves as director of the outstanding scholars and practitioners to conduct Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Shinju Fujihira, independent research on topics in contemporary the program’s associate director, was assisted by bilateral relations and to participate in an ongoing program coordinator William Nehring and staff dialogue on those topics with other members of assistant Xiao Tian. Caitlin Cronin served as the Harvard University and the greater Cambridge program’s research assistant. and Boston communities. The program was founded in 1980 on the belief that the United Administration States and Japan have become so interdependent Susan J. Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan that the problems they face urgently require Relations, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of cooperation. The program’s intellectual mandate Japanese Politics, Department of Government, has been broad since its inception and has Harvard University. included: US-Japan security and economic relations; contemporary Japanese politics, Shinju Fujihira, Executive Director, Program on economy, society, and culture; common problems U.S.-Japan Relations. of advanced capitalist democracies; international relations of East Asia; the globalization of Japan’s William Nehring, Program Coordinator, Program popular culture; the rise of civil society in Asia; on U.S.-Japan Relations. and global governance of trade, environment, and public health issues. Xiao Tian, Staff Assistant, Program on U.S.- Japan Relations. Each year, the program hosts academics, government officials, business people, and Caitlin Cronin, Research Assistant, Program on journalists, and awards a few advanced research U.S.-Japan Relations. fellowships to scholarly applicants who have Research Associates outstanding research credentials. While in residence at Harvard for the academic year, Takashi Ebuchi, Staff Writer, Economic News, associates take part in the seminars, roundtables, Asahi Shimbun. and other functions of the program; attend classes and other activities in the Harvard community; Hideshi Futori, Chief of Staff (2006–2009), Office present the results of their research in public of Akihisa Nagashima, House of Representatives panels; and prepare research reports that are Member (Democratic Party of Japan). published as the Occasional Papers of the Program Masao Horikane, Director, General Affairs and on U.S.-Japan Relations. Although most associates Police Coordination Department, Tohoku Police are from either Japan or the United States, the Bureau. program has also included individuals from a variety of East Asian and European countries. Woonjin Jeong, Director, Japan Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea. During the academic year, the program invites leading commentators on issues in US-Japan Naoyuki Matsunaga, Director, Securities and relations to speak at a weekly luncheon Exchange Surveillance Department, Fukuoka seminar series that is open to the public. The Local Finance Branch Bureau, Ministry of Finance. seminars are attended by about fifty faculty members, researchers, graduate students, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Economic Correspondent, and undergraduates from Harvard University, Yomiuri Shimbun.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 95 Ryuichi Sato, Management Planning Department, Ltd.; Michael R. Reich, Taro Takemi Professor of Tokyo Gas KANDO-LIFE Company, Tokyo Gas International Health Policy, Department of Global Co., Ltd. Health and Population, Director, Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard School of Public Kimitoshi Sugiyama, Lieutenant Colonel, Japan Health; Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Air Self Defense Force. Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies, Chair, Department of Anthropology, Masaki Watanabe, Deputy Director, New and Harvard University. Renewable Energy Division, Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department, Agency Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Institute of Japanese Studies; the Department Economy, Trade, and Industry. of Anthropology; the Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard School of Academic Associates Public Health; and Mossavar-Rahmani Center Taiji Furusawa, Professor of Economics, for Business and Government, Harvard Hitotsubashi University. Kennedy School.

Kumiko Haba, Jean Monnet Chair and Professor September 16, 2011 of European International Politics, Aoyama Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Gakuin University. “Recovery and Reconstruction in Japan: Harvard Yang-hyeon Jo, Associate Professor, Asia and Reports from the Field” Pacific Studies, Director, Center for Diplomatic Speakers: Yusuke Tsugawa, Research Fellow History Studies, Institute of Foreign and National in Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Republic of Korea. Center, and Harvard School of Public Health; Miho Nikhil Kapur, PhD, Harvard University. Mazereeuw, Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Masanori Kondo, Senior Associate Professor of Design; Glenn Bogardus, Harvard College ’13; Jun Economics, International Christian University. Shepard, Harvard College ‘14. Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of Hiroka Mita, Associate Professor of Public History, Department of History, Director, Edwin Administration, Sugiyama Jogakuen University. O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Yoshiaki Sato, Professor of Law, Seikei University. Japan Forum—sponsored by the Edwin O. Advanced Research Fellow Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Amy L. Catalinac, PhD, Harvard University. co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.- Japan Relations. U.S.-Japan Seminar Series September 20, 2011 Chair: Susan J. Pharr, Director, Edwin O. “From Pork to Policy: The Rise of National Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Security Debate in Election Campaigns in Japan” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Amy L. Catalinac, PhD, September 13, 2011 Harvard University.

Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Co-sponsored by the Program on Global Society and Security, Weatherhead Center for “Rebuilding Japan” International Affairs. Speakers: Robert Alan Feldman, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co.,

96 Programs September 27, 2011 Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. “The Yen and the Dollar in a Changing Political Context” October 18, 2011 Speaker: R. Taggart Murphy, Professor, Graduate Special Series on International Relations of School of Business Sciences, University of East Asia Tsukuba. Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, “The US, China, and Japan in the Changing Global Department of History, Director, Edwin O. System” Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Speaker: Hitoshi Tanaka, Chairman, Institute Harvard University. for International Strategy, Japan Research Institute (JRI), Senior Fellow, Japan Center for Co-sponsored by Mossavar-Rahmani Center International Exchange (JCIE), Visiting Professor, for Business and Government, Harvard Graduate School of Public Policy, University Kennedy School. of Tokyo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, September 30, 2011 Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan, 2002–2005). Moderator: Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Special Series on Globalization and Governance Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University. “Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery” Sponsored by the Ezra F. Vogel Distinguished Speaker: Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of Visitor Program, Harvard University Asia Center, International Peace, Department of Government, and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Harvard University. co-sponsored by the Program on Global Society and Security, Weatherhead Center for Co-sponsored by Mossavar-Rahmani Center International Affairs, and the Fairbank Center for for Business and Government, Harvard Chinese Studies. Kennedy School. October 25, 2011 October 4, 2011 “The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Crisis and the Special Series on Common Problems of Origins of Contemporary Japan” Developed Democracies Speaker: Nikhil Kapur, Advanced Research “The New Inequality in Germany and Japan” Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard Speakers: Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of University. Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Technology; Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Department of History and Director, Edwin Professor of Sociology, Chair, Department of O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Sociology, Harvard University. Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer for European Studies and the Malcolm Wiener Institute of Japanese Studies. Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. October 28, 2011 October 11, 2011 “China-Japan-US: Challenges and Opportunities in “Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of the Trilateral Economic Relationship” US-Japan Relations” Speakers: Cheng Siwei, Chairman, International Speaker: Michael Auslin, Chair of Japan Studies, Finance Forum (Beijing), Chairman, China American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Advisory Council, World Economic Forum, Research (AEI). President, Association of Management Modernization, China, The Asia Foundation

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 97 Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Discussant: Alan K. Henrikson, Associate Harvard University; William W. Grimes, Professor, Professor of Diplomatic History, Director of Chair, Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Studies, the Fletcher School of Law Boston University. and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Sponsored by the Asia Foundation, the Harvard Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese University Asia Center (Modern Asia Seminar Studies, the Korea Institute, and the South Series), and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Asia Initiative. co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for November 15, 2011 Chinese Studies.

October 28, 2011 “Covering Japan and Asia in The New York Times” Speaker: Susan Chira, Assistant Managing Editor, “Hope as the New Normal: National Recovery News, the New York Times. Moderator: Ezra F. through the 3/11 Disaster” Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Speaker: David Leheny, Henry Wendt Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University. III ‘55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University. Co-sponsored by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University. Japan Forum—sponsored by the Edwin O. November 29, 2011 Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.- “Elders and the Ethics of Suicide in Japan” Japan Relations. Speaker: John W. Traphagan, Associate Professor November 1, 2011 of Religious Studies, University of Texas, Austin. Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies, Chair, Department of “Nuclear Power after Fukushima” Anthropology, Harvard University. Speaker: Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists. Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Anthropology, Harvard University. of Japanese Studies; Harvard University Center for the Environment; Environment and Natural December 6, 2011 Resources Program; Belfer Center for Science Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan and International Affairs; and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard “Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post- Kennedy School. Disaster Recovery” November 8, 2011 Speaker: Daniel P. Aldrich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University. Special Series on International Relations of East Asia Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. “The Rise of China and India: Challenges for February 2, 2012 Japanese Foreign Policy” Speakers: Yang-hyeon Jo, Associate Professor Special Series on International Relations of of Asia and Pacific Studies, Director, Center East Asia for Diplomatic History Studies, the Institute of Foreign and National Security (IFANS), Ministry “After Kim Jong Il: The Korean Peninsula and East of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea; Asian Security” Masanori Kondo, Senior Associate Professor of Speaker: Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, Fletcher Economics, International Christian University. School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University,

98 Programs United States Special Representative for North Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Korea Policy (2009–2011), US Ambassador to the for European Studies; Program on Transatlantic Republic of Korea (1997–2001). Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and Modern Asia Series, Harvard Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on University Asia Center. U.S.-Korea Relations, the Korea Institute; and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, February 21, 2012 Tufts University. “Joining the Club: Accession to the GATT/WTO” February 3, 2012 Speaker: Christina L. Davis, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Princeton University.

“Explaining ‘The Worst Conflagration in the Co-sponsored by the Institute of Global Law and History of the World’: Science and the Great Policy, Harvard Law School. Kanto Earthquake” Speaker: Kerry Smith, Associate Professor of February 28, 2012 History, Brown University. Moderator: Andrew Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Gordon, Lee and Juliet Lee Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard “Kizuna: New Forms of Social Capital in University, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Disaster Japan” of Japanese Studies. Speaker: David H. Slater, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies, Japan Forum—sponsored by the Edwin O. Sophia University. Moderator: Theodore C. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.- Social Anthropology, Chair, Department of Japan Relations. Anthropology, Harvard University. February 7, 2012 Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. “Do Nuclear Power Plants Benefit Japan’s Local Communities?” March 6, 2012 Speaker: Jun Saito, Assistant Professor of Political Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Science, Yale University. “Enterprise Resilience: Turning Large Scale Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Disruptions into Competitive Advantage” Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Speaker: Yossi Sheffi, Elisha Gray II Professor Environment and Natural Resources Program and of Engineering Systems, Director, MIT Center the Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Transportation and Logistics, Massachusetts for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Institute of Technology. Moderator: Andrew Kennedy School. Gordon, Lee and Juliet Lee Folger Fund Professor February 14, 2012 of History, Department of History, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, “World Regions in Turmoil: Globalization, Asia, Harvard University. and Europe” Speakers: Kumiko Haba, Jean Monnet Chair and Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of European International Politics, Institute of Japanese Studies. Aoyama Gakuin University; Karl Kaiser, Director, March 9, 2012 Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Adjunct Professor Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 99 “Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters” Conservation and Renewable Energy Department, Speakers: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Lee Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. History, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Kyle Discussant: Mary Alice Haddad, Associate Parry, Project Manager and Digital Commons Professor of Government, Wesleyan University. Researcher, metaLAB, Berkman Center for March 26, 2012 Internet and Society, Harvard University; Eric Dinmore, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Distinguished Visitor Lecture Fellow, Assistant Professor of History, Hampden- “Rebuilding Japan after Fukushima” Sydney College. Moderator: Theodore C. Speaker: Yoichi Funabashi, Chairman, Rebuild Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japan Initiative Foundation, Editor-in-Chief, Asahi Social Anthropology, Chair, Department of Shimbun (2007–2010). Anthropology, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Japan Forum—sponsored by the Edwin O. Institute of Japanese Studies. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.- March 27, 2012 Japan Relations. Panel: Japan Confronts Globalization March 20, 2012 “Globalization and Income Inequality” Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Speaker: Taiji Furusawa, Professor of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. “Origins of Japan’s Electric Power and the Fukushima Disaster: A Historical Perspective” “US Energy Policy and Its Strategic Implications Speaker: Takeo Kikkawa, Professor of Japanese for China and Japan” Business History, Hitotsubashi University. Speaker: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Economic Correspondent, Yomiuri Shimbun. Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. “Japan’s Financial Institutions after the 2008 March 22, 2012 Financial Crisis” Speaker: Naoyuki Matsunaga, Director, Securities Panel: Policy Learning and Diffusion in Japan and Exchange Surveillance Department, Fukuoka and the US Local Finance Branch Bureau, Ministry of Finance.

“Democratic Control of Public Works in the US Discussant: William W. Grimes, Professor, and Japan” Chair, Department of International Relations, Speaker: Hiroka Mita, Associate Professor Boston University. of Public Administration, Sugiyama April 10, 2012 Jogakuen University. “From Super PACs to Miku: Politics of Media in “Police Investigation of Unresolved Crimes in the the 21st Century” US and Japan” Speaker: Ian Condry, Associate Professor of Speaker: Masao Horikane, Director, General Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Affairs and Police Coordination Department, Institute of Technology. Moderator: Theodore Tohoku Police Bureau. C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of “Laws of Consumer Protection in Japan, the US, Social Anthropology, Chair, Department of and EU” Anthropology, Harvard University. Speaker: Masaki Watanabe, Deputy Director, Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer New and Renewable Energy Division, Energy Institute of Japanese Studies.

100 Programs April 17, 2012 Speaker: Junya Nishino, Harvard-Yenching Institute Keio Exchange Scholar, Associate Special Series on International Relations of Professor of Political Science, Keio University. East Asian “US-Japan Alliance and Rising Chinese “The Expected and the Unexpected: U.S. Grand Naval Power” Strategy and Asia” Speaker: Hideshi Futori, Chief of Staff (2006– Speaker: Victor Cha, D.S. Song KF Endowed 2009), Office of Akihisa Nagashima, House of Chair in Government and Asian Studies, Director Representatives Member (Democratic Party of Asia Studies, Georgetown University, Senior of Japan). Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Director for Asian “The Role of the SDF in Strengthening the Affairs, the National Security Council (2004– U.S.-Japan Alliance” 2007). Speaker: Kimitoshi Sugiyama, Lieutenant Colonel, Japan Air Self Defense Force. Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.- Korea Relations, Korea Institute, and Modern Asia Discussant: Thomas U. Berger, Associate Series, Harvard University Asia Center. Professor of International Relations, Boston University. April 24, 2012 May 10, 2012 Special Series on Globalization and Governance Panel: Japan’s Labor Market: Competition, “The Global Economic Outlook in 2012” Inequality, and Globalization Speaker: Naoyuki Shinohara, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Program “Building a Transnational Network of Nurses in on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University (1985– East Asia” 1986). Discussant: Richard N. Cooper, Maurits Speaker: Yoshiaki Sato, Professor of Law, C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Seikei University. Department of Economics, Harvard University. “From Coordination to Market? Industrial May 1, 2012 Structure and Employment Institutions in Contemporary Japan” Special Series on International Relations of Speaker: Takashi Ebuchi, Staff Writer, Economic East Asian News, Asahi Shimbun. “Freedom of Navigation in the South China Sea “The Future of Human Resource Management in and the US-Japan Alliance” Japanese Companies” Speaker: James Auer, Director, Center Speaker: Ryuichi Sato, Management Planning for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation, Department, Tokyo Gas KANDO-LIFE Company, Vanderbilt University. Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Discussant: Henry C.W. Laurence, Associate Chinese Studies. Professor of Government and East Asian May 8, 2012 Studies, Director, Asian Studies Program, Bowdoin College. Panel: US-Japan Alliance and Northeast Asian Security May 11, 2012

“Toward a New Era in Japan–South Korea “Great Power Politics and the Future of Asian Relations” Regionalism” Speakers: Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan to the United States; Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General, ASEAN; Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 101 Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Funds were made available by the Weatherhead Kennedy School; May-Britt Stumbaum, Head, Center to Graduate Student Associates on NFG Research Group on “Asian Perceptions of a competitive basis for short-term travel for EU,” Free University of Berlin; Quansheng Zhao, dissertation research, for participation in Professor of International Relations, Director, conferences, and for other expenses directly Center for Asian Studies, School of International related to a GSA’s dissertation research. In Service, American University; Kumiko Haba, 2011–2012, some Graduate Student Associates Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of European used these funds to present papers at the International Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University. annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the American Anthropology Hosted by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Association, and the Asian Studies Association. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Graduate Student Associates supported the in cooperation with the Harvard University Asia Center’s Undergraduate Associates by discussing Center and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of their field research with them in the early fall Japanese Studies. and by attending their thesis presentations in the spring. Distinguished Visitor Dinner GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES March 26, 2012 Sa’ed Adel Atshan, PhD Candidate, Department “The Rise of China from a Japanese Perspective” of Anthropology, Harvard University. Speaker: Yoichi Funabashi, Chairman, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, Editor-in-Chief, Asahi Andrew J. Coe, PhD Candidate, Department of Shimbun (2007–2010). Government, Harvard University.

Oana M. Dan, PhD Candidate, Department of Student Programs Sociology, Harvard University. Administration Jeffrey Friedman, PhD Candidate, Committee on Erez Manela, Director, Graduate Student Public Policy, Harvard University. Programs, Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University. Shelby Grossman, PhD Candidate, Department of Government. Steffen Rimner, Graduate Student Representative, Executive Committee. Maocan Guo, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Director, Undergraduate Student Programs, Postdoctoral Fellow, Andrew J. Harris, PhD Candidate, Department of Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Government, Harvard University.

Clare Putnam, Student Programs Coordinator. Nancy A. Khalil, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Graduate Student Associates Program Julie Kleinman, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. The Weatherhead Center selected twenty-four Graduate Students Associates (GSAs) in 2011– Carly Knight, PhD Candidate, Department of 2012. These students came from the Departments Sociology, Harvard University. of Anthropology, Government, History, Middle Stefan Link, PhD Candidate, Department of Eastern Studies, Religion, and Sociology. On a History, Harvard University. couple of Fridays, instead of a GSA presentation, Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates gave Hassan Malik, PhD Candidate, Department of professionalization talks to GSAs on various History, Harvard University. topics of interest.

102 Programs Sreemati Mitter, PhD Candidate, Department of September 16, 2011 History, Harvard University. “100 Years of Struggle: Cheminot Identity and the Shankar Nair, PhD Candidate, Department of 1910 Rail Strike in Paris” Religion, Harvard University. Speaker: Julie Kleinman, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Sanjay Pinto, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. September 23, 2011

Steven Press, PhD Candidate, Department of “The Strategy Trap and the American Indian Wars” History, Harvard University. Speaker: Jeffrey Friedman, PhD Candidate, Committee on Public Policy, Harvard University. Jonathan Renshon, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. September 30, 2011

Steffen Rimner, PhD Candidate, Department of “The Consequences of Educational Expansion in History, Harvard University. Reforming China” Speaker: Maocan Guo, PhD Candidate, Sparsha Saha, PhD Candidate, Department of Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Government, Harvard University. October 8, 2011 Sarah Shehabuddin, PhD Candidate, Department “Workplace and Inequality: Organization-Based of Government, Harvard University. Stratification in Urban China” Julia Stephens, PhD Candidate, Department of Speaker: Maocan Guo, PhD Candidate, History, Harvard University. Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Brandon Stewart, PhD Candidate, Department of October 14, 2011 Government, Harvard University. “Costly Peace and War” Chana Teeger, PhD Candidate, Department of Speaker: Andrew Coe, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University. October 21, 2011 Anya Vodopyanov, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. “A Fordist International: Illiberal Modernism and the Politics of Production in the Interwar Years: GSA Seminar Series US, Germany, Soviet Union” August 29, 2011 Speaker: Stefan Link, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. Weatherhead Center GSA Program Orientation Session and discussion on “Interdisciplinary October 28, 2011 Exchange: Challenges and Opportunities” “Fighting for Status” Speaker: Erez Manela, Director, Graduate Student Speaker: Jonathan Renshon, PhD Candidate, Programs, Professor of History, Department of Department of Government, Harvard University. History, Harvard University. November 4, 2011 September 9, 2011 “When Colonial Legitimacy Fails” “Measuring the Impact of Violence on Voter Speaker: Steffen Rimner, PhD Candidate, Registration in Kenya” Department of History, Harvard University. Speaker: J. Andrew Harris, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. November 18, 2011

“The Politics of Business in Developing Countries: Explaining State Predation and Cheating”

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 103 Speaker: Shelby Grossman, PhD Candidate, goods—especially employment, social services, Department of Government, Harvard University. and business opportunities—in the context of electoral authoritarian regimes, and how the December 2, 2011 manipulation of access contributes to regime “Leasing Sovereignty at Guantanamo: New Evidence continuity (or change) and a Comparative Historical Interpretation” Speaker: Anya Vodopyanov, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Steven Press, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Department of History, Harvard University. March 23, 2012 December 9, 2011 “Shumsoonnissa’s Case: Domesticity, Economy, “A Sufi Translation Theory? Reconsidering Muslim and Colonial Secularization” Translations of Hindu Texts in the Mughal Period” Speaker: Julia Stephens, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Shankar Nair, PhD Candidate, Harvard Department of History, Harvard University. Divinity School. March 30, 2012 January 27, 2012 “Teaching Transformations: South Africa’s Post- “Living Terrorfied: (un)Welcoming Transnationalism” Apartheid Generation and Apartheid History Speaker: Nancy Khalil, PhD Candidate, Education” Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Speaker: Chana Teeger, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. February 3, 2012 April 6, 2012 “A Voice but Not a Vote: The Case of Surrogate Representation and Social Welfare for Legal “A History of Money in Palestine from 1900s Noncitizens since 1996” to the Present: The Case of the Frozen Bank Speaker: Carly Knight, PhD Candidate, Accounts of 1948” Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Speaker: Sreemati Mitter, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. February 17, 2012 April 13, 2012 “A Macrocomparative Study of Work and Occupations” “Political Methodology and Applications to Speaker: Sanjay Pinto, PhD Candidate, Security Studies” Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Speaker: Brandon Stewart, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. February 24, 2012 April 20, 2012 “Going beyond Conflict: Secular Feminists, Islamists, and Gender Policy” “Dignity and Dependency: The Politics of Speaker: Sarah Shehabuddin, PhD Candidate, International Aid Provision in Palestinian Society” Department of Government, Harvard University. Speaker: Sa’ed Adel Atshan, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. March 2, 2012 April 27, 2012 “Bankers, Bureaucrats, and the Bond Market: Foreign Financiers in the Russian Markets, “State Repression against Protesters: The Effects 1900–1917” of Mercenary Policing” Speaker: Hassan Malik, PhD Candidate, Speaker: Sparsha Saha, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. Department of Government, Harvard University.

March 9, 2012

The politics of ‘access’ to scarce coveted

104 Programs Dissertation Completion James I. Loxton, PhD Candidate, Department Fellowships of Government. Comparative politics of Latin America, post-authoritarian conservative political The Weatherhead Center awarded six dissertation parties, and political regimes. completion fellowships. One fellowship is named for Sidney R. Knafel, chair of the Center’s Samuels Family Research Fellows Visiting Committee from 1991 to 2000. Another Gregory D. Afinogenov, PhD Candidate, fellowship is named after Hartley R. Rogers, ’81, Department of History. Eighteenth-century a long-time supporter of international studies at Russian and European intellectual history, the University, and was awarded jointly by the especially Sinology. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Weatherhead Center. Brett L. Carter, PhD Candidate, Department of Sidney R. Knafel Fellowship Government. Elite struggle and cooperation in the Republic of the Congo. Andrew J. Coe, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Emily R. Clough, PhD Candidate, Department of Government. Political economy of development, Hartley R. Rogers Fellowship private governance, and child labor in India, Brazil, and Ghana. Anya Vodopyanov, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Julie O. Kleinman, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Committee on Middle Weatherhead Center Dissertation Completion Fellowships Eastern Studies. The politics and social life of Parisian public space, West African migrants, Stefan Link, PhD Candidate, Department of infrastructure, and labor at the “Gare du Nord” History, Harvard University. train station.

Sarah Shehabuddin, PhD Candidate, Department Steven M. Press, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. of History. Territorial exchanges in international law, resource extraction, and the acquisition of Sanjay Pinto, PhD Candidate, Department of military and naval bases. Sociology, Harvard University. Pre- and Mid-Dissertation Grants Sreemati Mitter, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Bryan Averbuch, PhD Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Graduate Student Affiliates Assessing new discoveries in Sumatra that shed light on the origins of Southeast Asia’s The Center awarded twenty-nine pre- and mid- precolonial trade with the Middle East. dissertation grants and foreign language grants in 2011 to Harvard doctoral degree candidates who Eva L. Bitran, PhD Candidate, Department of were in the early to middle stages of dissertation History. Migration, regulation, and the emergence research or language study for their projects of an international society in twentieth-century related to international affairs. Funding for these Morocco; international history. grants came from former Fellow and long-time friend of the Center, Pedro Pick, the Maurice and Colin M. Brown, PhD Candidate, Department of Sarah Samuels Family, and the Weatherhead Government. Political parties and campaigns, Center. In most cases, the grants were used immigrant political incorporation, particularly in during the summer for travel and other research- Western Europe. related expenses. Charlotte Cavaille, PhD Candidate, Program in Pedro Pick NOMOS Graduate Student Social Policy and Government, Harvard Kennedy Research Fellow

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Hsuan-Ying Huang, PhD Candidate, Department Brandon P. Van Dyck, PhD Candidate, of Anthropology. The legendary German-Chinese Department of Government. Roots of party course and the first cross-strait encounter in a survival and failure, especially in Latin America. movement of learning Western psychotherapy in urban China. Delia D. Wendel, PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Postconflict Bilal A. Malik, EdD Candidate, Harvard Graduate rebuilding, focusing on the sociopolitical School of Education. Secular modernity and roles of the built environment in transitional Islamic seminaries; ethnography of religion; justice strategies. education and politics in Pakistan. Foreign Language Studies Grants Hassan Malik, PhD Candidate, Department of Erin A. Baggott, PhD Candidate, Department History. Foreign portfolio investing in “emerging of Government. International relations, security markets” during the first modern age of studies, development, China, the Middle East. globalization, from c. 1880 to 1930. Volha Charnysh, PhD Candidate, Department of Plamen V. Nikolov, PhD Candidate, Program in Government. European integration, civil society, Health Economics, Harvard University. HIV/AIDS foreign and defense policy decision-making, epidemic in Africa; consequences of antiretroviral regime transitions. programs in South Africa. Dzavid Dzanic, PhD Candidate, Department Andrei C. Roman, PhD Candidate, Department of of History. French imperial expansion in the Government. Democratization, electoral politics, Mediterranean; resistance movements; Islam in and social cleavage formation in Latin America North Africa. and Eastern Europe. Tara Grillos, PhD Candidate, Committee on Public Victor K. Seow, PhD Candidate, Department of Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. International East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Modern development; sustainable resource management Chinese and Japanese history, energy and in Kenya. environment, colonialism, imperialism, empire, science, technology, and society. Carly R. Knight, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology. The Generation Gap: Public Attitudes Mira L. Siegelberg, PhD Candidate, Department towards Immigrants and Immigration. of History. Concept of statelessness through the lens of Central European jurists who worked James R. Martin, PhD Candidate, Department of to define and institutionalize the concept of an History. Germany philosophy and social science in internationally rights bearing subject. the postwar era.

Evann G. Smith, PhD Candidate, Department Emrah Yildiz, PhD Candidate, Department of of Government. Political regimes, regime Anthropology and Committee on Middle Eastern stability, electoral manipulation, technology in Studies. Cross-border trade and pilgrimage, authoritarian systems, with a particular focus on neoliberalism and commerce, transportation the Middle East. and international law, history, and anthropology, ethnography of the State, the Middle East (Iran, Gitanjali Surendran, PhD Candidate, Department Turkey, Syria). of History. Attempts at Buddhist revival in India, and more broadly in South Asia, c. 1891 to 1960. Graduate Student Conferences

Kris-Stella Trump, PhD Candidate, Department The Weatherhead Center offers grants for of Government. Political psychology and attitude Harvard graduate student conferences and

106 Programs workshops. Students enrolled in a doctoral In February 2012, the students presented their program in the Graduate School of Arts and findings in a Weatherhead Center–sponsored Sciences or one of the professional schools conference, the panels of which were chaired by can apply on a competitive basis for financial Faculty Associates, Harvard Academy Scholars, or resources for student conferences and workshops Graduate Student Associates of the Center. The that address their interests in international affairs. Kenneth I. Juster Fellowships for Undergraduate In 2011–2012 the Weatherhead Center awarded Research and Travel support undergraduates funding to support the following conferences whose projects may be related to thesis research and workshops: but also have broader experiential components. The Juster Fellows conducted their research in “Collaborating for Change” January 2012. The Harvard Leadership Conference Funds for summer travel grants came from the “Education in the Arab World” Weatherhead Foundation, the Hartley R. Rogers Harvard Graduate School of Education Family, Adele Simmons, Katarina Engberg, conference the Canada Program, and the Program on Transatlantic Relations. In addition, the center “A Shadow Population: Immigrant Enforcement, receives funding from the Office of Career Child Development, and America’s Future” Services Williams/Lodge International Government Harvard Graduate School of Education and Public Affairs fund. The Kenneth I. Juster conference Fellowships for Undergraduate Research and “The Body in History/The Body in Space” Travel was made possible by the generosity of the Harvard Graduate School of Design symposium Center’s Advisory Committee Chair, the Honorable Kenneth I. Juster, who has devoted much of his “Contours of Asia” education, professional activities, and nonprofit Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student endeavors to international affairs and is deeply conference engaged in promoting international understanding and advancing international relations. “Religion and Civilization in International History” The Twelfth Annual Harvard Graduate Student UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATES Conference on International History Christopher W. Danello, Department of History. Harvard Kennedy School European Dinner Series The history of Anglo-American banking relationships at the turn of the 19th–20th century. Roadmap to Peace for Israel and Palestine: The One-State Solution conference Christine J. Hu, Department of Economics. Canadien to French Canadian to Quebecois: An The Harvard African Development conference Evolution of Fan Identity in Montreal.

Undergraduate Associates Program Casra LaBelle, Department of Economics. Social capital in North America: Do generations growing The Center welcomes applications from up during economic distress engage with society undergraduate students in various disciplines differently than generations growing up in whose research involves important international, prosperous times? transnational, global, and comparative national issues that may address contemporary or Clare E. Miller, Department of Anthropology. historical topics, including rigorous policy Tourism and nature in Banff National Park, Alberta. analysis, as well as the study of specific countries and regions outside the United States. Engberg Family Research Fellow Weatherhead Center summer travel grants were Tarek J. Austin, Degree Program in Social Studies. awarded to Harvard undergraduates to support Turkey’s candidacy for EU membership and new senior thesis research in international affairs.

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 107 forms of conditionality expressed in national Public Affairs Research Fellows public spheres. Mihnea D. Berbecel, Department of Government. Juster Fellows Evaluating the factors affecting vulnerability to political crisis in Argentina and Brazil. Emily Guo, Department of Economics. Effect of health beliefs and behaviors on usage of chlorine Jonathan M. Kaufman, Degree Program in Social dispensers as safe water practice in Kenya. Studies. Between China and Burma: Transnational Visions and the Quest for Islamic Authenticity in Lillian Kivel, Department of Anthropology. The Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. role of schools in social mobility of migrant children in Beijing. Sharon Kim, Department of Anthropology. Cambodian Bureaucracy: Public Forms of Dalumuzi Mhlanga, Degree Program in Social Commemoration as Vehicles in Constructing Studies. Citizens responses to 2007 Kenyan and Social Memory. 2008 Zimbabwean presidential elections. Herrissa D. Lamothe, Department of Sociology. William Rafey, Degree Program in Social Studies. Aid effectiveness in Peru. International development and climate change governance in South Africa. Naseemah Y. Mohamed, Degree Program in Social Studies and in Department of African and African Michael Stanley, Concentration in Human American Studies. The Art of Literacy or Literacy Developmental and Regenerative Biology. through Arts: Implementing and Evaluating Examining local sustainable food models to the Effects of an Arts-based Literacy Program combat malnutrition in Uganda. in an Impoverished High School in Bulawayo, Anna Trowbridge, Department of Government. Zimbabwe. Rightist political orientation of Chileans of Mason A. Pesek, Department of Government. Palestinian origin toward Chilean issues. Investigating the domestic political influence on Rogers Family Research Fellows the Argentine junta’s decision-making process prior to the Falklands War. Timothy J. Lambert, Degree Program in Social Studies. Evaluating the relationship between Sojourner Rivers, Department of Government. foreign aid and grassroots civil society campaigns Rape in South Africa. in the fight against political corruption in Kenya. Kristin N. Rose, Committee on Degrees in Naseemah Y. Mohamed, Degree Program in Social Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. The Studies and in Department of African and African Politicization of Sexuality in South Africa and American Studies. The Art of Literacy or Literacy Impacts on HIV/AIDS Policy. through Arts: Implementing and Evaluating Inna Ryzhik, Department of History. Arabs and the Effects of an Arts-based Literacy Program Ottomans: French Colonial Endeavors in Algeria. in an Impoverished High School in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Huma N. Shah, Department of History. Islam and the State: “Islamic” versus “Secular” Judicial Sojourner Rivers, Department of Government. Interpretation in Pakistan. Rape in South Africa.

Simmons Family Research Fellow Anna Trowbridge, Department of Government. Rightist political orientation of Chileans of Shalini K. Rao, Department of Government. How Palestinian origin toward Chilean issues. to best protect housing rights in developing democracies that host mega-sporting events. Chenzi Xu, Department of Economics. One Hundred Years of Debt: A History of Greek Williams/Lodge International Government and Borrowing and Default.

108 Programs Undergraduate Research Workshops Speaker: Clare E. Miller, Department of Anthropology, Harvard College. The Weatherhead Center offered a series of workshops to undergraduates all focusing on Islam and the State (in various States) various aspects of completing a thesis, including Chair: Nancy A. Khalil, Graduate Student thesis topic exploration, proposal and grant Associate, PhD Candidate, Department of writing, field research, and international travel. Anthropology, Harvard University. December 2011 “Turkey at the Border of the European Project” Undergraduate workshop on selecting a thesis Speaker: Tarek J. Austin, Engberg Family topic, writing a prospectus, and choosing Research Fellow. Degree Program in Social an advisor. Studies, Harvard College. Speaker: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of “Governing a Chimera: Ottoman Legacy International Affairs, Department of Government, and Colonial Management in French Algeria Harvard University. (1830–1901)” Speaker: Inna Ryzhik, Williams/Lodge February 2012 International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow, Department of History, Undergraduate workshop on writing a successful Harvard College. grant proposal with examples of proposals and topics the Center might typically support. “Negotiating Islamic and Secular Judicial Speaker: Steven B. Bloomfield, Weatherhead Interpretation in Pakistan” Center Executive Director. Speaker: Huma N. Shah, Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs 2012 Weatherhead center Research Fellow, Department of History, Harvard Undergraduate Thesis Conference College. February 9–11, 2012 “Chinese Islam(s) on the Border: Islamic Thursday, February 9 Authenticity, Ethnic Boundaries, and Images of Home in a Bi-National Immigrant Community” Welcoming Remarks Speaker: Jonathan M. Kaufman, Williams/Lodge Speaker: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead International Government and Public Affairs Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of Research Fellow, Degree Program in Social International Affairs, Department of Government, Studies, Harvard College. Harvard University. Friday, February 10 Creations of Recreation in North America Negotiating (In)Solvency Over Time Chair: Jim Dunn, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Associate Chair: Sreemati Mitter, Graduate Student Professor, Department of Health, Aging, and Associate, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Harvard University.

“French Canadian to Canadien to Québécois: An “The History of Anglo-American Evolution of Fan Identity in Montreal” Banking Relationships at the Turn of the Speaker: Christine J. Hu, Department of Twentieth Century” Economics, Harvard College. Speaker: Christopher W. Danello, Department of History, Harvard College. “Tourism and Nature in Banff National Park, Alberta” “Social Capital in North America: Do Generations Growing Up During Times of Economic Distress Engage with Society Differently than Generations

WCFIA Annual Report • 2011–2012 109 Growing Up in Prosperous Times?” “The Perfect Storm: How the Combined Effect of Speaker: Casra LaBelle, Department of State Feudalization in Argentina and Diplomatic Economics, Harvard College. Misperception Contributed to the Outbreak of the Falklands/Malvinas War” “An Examination of the Role of Domestic Debt in Speaker: Mason A. Pesek, Williams/Lodge Greek Financial History” International Government and Public Affairs Speaker: Chenzi Xu, Williams/Lodge International Research Fellow, Department of Government, Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow, Harvard College. Department of Economics, Harvard College. “Political Opinion Formation among Palestinians Aid and Modernization in the Developing World in Chile” Chair: Robert L. Paarlberg, Betty F. Johnson Speaker: Anna F. Trowbridge, Williams/Lodge Professor of Political Science, Department of International Government and Public Affairs Political Science, Wellesley College. Research Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard College. “Playing Defense: Generating a Strategy of Best- Practice Mobilization to Protect Housing Rights Saturday, February 11 in Developing Democracies that Host Mega- Crises and Intervention in the Developing World Sporting Events” Speaker: Shalini K. Rao, Simmons Family Chair: Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Director, Research Fellow, Department of Government, Undergraduate Student Programs, Postdoctoral Harvard College. Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. “Reclaiming Society: The Role of Communal Organizations and INGOs in Public Goods “Cambodian Bureaucracy: Public Forms of Provision in Peruvian Peasant Communities” Commemoration as Vehicles in Constructing Speaker: Herrissa D. Lamothe, Williams/Lodge Social Memory” International Government and Public Affairs Speaker: Sharon Kim, Williams/Lodge Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, International Government and Public Affairs Harvard College. Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard College. “The Art of Literacy or Literacy through Art: Corporal Punishment, Rote Learning, and an “Beyond Patron and Client: Corruption, Education Arts Intervention in Zimbabwe” Democracy, and the Aid Industry in Kenya” Speaker: Naseemah Y. Mohamed, Williams/Lodge Speaker: Timothy J. Lambert, Rogers Family International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow, Degree Program in Social Research Fellow, Rogers Family Research Fellow, Studies, Harvard College. Degree Program in Social Studies and African Studies, Harvard College. “A Study of Rape in South Africa” Speaker: Sojourner Rivers, Williams/Lodge Varieties of Domestic Politics in the Southern International Government and Public Affairs Cone and Brazil Research Fellow, Rogers Family Research Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard College. Chair: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. “The Personal is Political: Re-claiming Identity in South African HIV/AIDS Interventions” “Evaluating the Factors Affecting Differences in Speaker: Kristin N. Rose, Williams/Lodge Policy Stability in Argentina and Brazil” International Government and Public Affairs Speaker: Mihnea D. Berbecel, Williams/Lodge Research Fellow, Committee on Degrees in International Government and Public Affairs Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Research Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard College.

110 Programs Undergraduate Initiative Grants to on international affairs, an annual international Student Groups careers week, and an annual human rights week.

During the 2011–2012 academic year, the Dinner Discussions Weatherhead Center offered undergraduates October 12, 2011 at the University financial resources to organize projects on their own that addressed their Professor Rodrik discussed the future of the interests relating to international affairs. Grants world’s economies and what it means for US up to $1,000 were awarded to Harvard student foreign policy, particularly: Will China’s economy groups on a competitive basis. Awards could ever catch up to the US? Should the US worry be used to support speaker series, study about foreign economic dominance? Have groups, special seminars with faculty, Fellows, emerging markets hit a slump? What can the or visiting scholars, conferences with an explicit developed world and its institutions do in face of undergraduate focus, event-related publications a new developing world? or supplies, or any number of ideas students proposed that would benefit the Harvard “Playing Catch-Up: The Future of undergraduate community. The following grants Economic Convergence” Speaker: Dani Rodrik, Harvard Kennedy School. were awarded to undergraduate student groups in 2011–2012: October 27, 2011

• Global China Connection conference “China and A dinner discussion focused on postconflict the US: Building an Era of Cooperation” reconstruction; peace building in places like • The Igniting Innovation summit South Thailand, Timor Leste, and Nepal; and the • The Living Magazine role of women in these issues.

Harvard international Relations “Agents of Change: The Role of Women in Post- on Campus Conflict Development” Speakers: Shadia Marhaban, Weatherhead Center The Harvard International Relations on Fellow, Human Rights Activist, President and Campus (IRoC) is the undergraduate student Co-founder, Aceh Women’s League; Donna Hicks, group that serves as the principal liaison Associate, Weatherhead Center for International between the Weatherhead Center and Harvard Affairs; Phuong Pham, Harvard Humanitarian undergraduates. IRoC promotes awareness and Initiative. understanding of international affairs among undergraduates through a variety of programs, November 2, 2011 which include close collaborations with the A dinner discussion focused on understanding Weatherhead Center and its Fellows. the motives behind Turkey’s recent activism in The leadership of the International Relations the broader region; Turkey’s take on the 2003 Council for 2011–2012 included: Iraq War, the 2004 Annan Plan in Cyprus, and the 2010 Tehran Declaration; and new directions in Harlan Downs-Tepper, ‘11, Co-President. Turkish foreign policy.

Ben Raderstorf, ‘14, Vice President. “Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy: A Synopsis of the Last Decade” Melissa Barber, ‘13, Co-President. Speaker: Emirhan Yorulmazlar, Weatherhead Center Fellow, Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Harvard International Relations on Affairs, Deputy Special Advisor to Foreign Campus Events Minister Davutoglu, Ankara. IRoC organized a number of events in the 2011– 2012, including panel discussions and seminars

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Wondering about the ins and outs of diplomacy? November 7, 2011 What is it like to be a diplomat? How do we deal While the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, with climate change in an international context? and malaria remains as pressing as ever, many “A Life of Diplomacy: Around the World with an traditional development methods have fallen Environmentalist Diplomat” short in effectively curtailing these threats. What Speaker: Nelson Olivero, Weatherhead Center can be done to streamline the responses and Fellow, Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expand the impact? Are results-based funding Minister Counselor, Embassy of Guatemala, Berlin. models the way of the future?

December 1, 2011 “Doing Development Differently: Performance- Based Management to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis Interested in the UN? The MDGs? Curious how and Malaria“ the role of a diplomat fits into their strategy and Speaker: Nicole Delaney, Associate, Weatherhead implementation? Mr. Conze shed light on the first Center for International Affairs. ten years of the Millennium Development Goals and offered a critical look at how they are playing November 14, 2011 out on the ground, around the world. With conflict ongoing in seemingly all corners “Millennium Development Goals: A of the globe, humanitarian and legal issues Diplomat’s Perspective” surrounding refugees and other vulnerable Speaker: Albrecht Conze, Weatherhead Center groups are as important and complicated as ever. Fellow, Diplomat, Federal Foreign Office, From Libya to Afghanistan, displaced populations Ambassador to Zimbabwe. face some of the most serious risks of abuse, violence, and human rights violations, and the March 7, 2012 problems are not going away. What, if anything, can the international community do to protect A discussion on the nuclear cooperation of two of and give hope to those most vulnerable? America’s challengers and its consequences for international security politics. “The Challenges of Protecting Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Other Vulnerable Groups” “Venezuela: Iran’s Latest Accomplice? The Threats Speaker: Nancy Polutan, Weatherhead Center of the Latin American Uranium Trade” Fellow, Regional Integration Officer, Regional Speaker: Yael Marciano, Weatherhead Center Representation for Central Europe, United Nations Fellow, Media Analyst, Attorney, Former High Commissioner for Refugees, Budapest. Consultant to Inter-American Development Bank. November 21, 2011 April 25, 2012 As the line between humanitarian crisis and conflict Weatherhead Center Fellow J.S. Tissainayagam blurs, the roles of civilian and military organizations was a journalist during the Sri Lankan civil are increasingly intertwined, often with mixed war, and was imprisoned in 2008 for reporting results. Can the two cooperate in the twenty-first on human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan century world, and to what degree? And if not, government against the Tamil minority. which one is best suited to respond to a crisis? “International Dimensions of Conflict Resolution in “Civil and Military Cooperation in Crisis Response: Civil Wars: Sri Lanka versus Syria” A Clash of Cultures?” Speaker: J.S. Tissainayagam, Weatherhead Speakers: Nancy Polutan, Weatherhead Center Center Fellow, Journalist, Nieman Foundation Fellow, Regional Integration Officer, Regional for Journalism. Representation for Central Europe, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Budapest;

112 Programs Stephen Mariano, Weatherhead Center Fellow, challenges face women in this field? What is the Colonel, United States Army, Director of Strategic future of women in postconflict development? Plans, Policies, and Assessments, US Army Africa March 27, 2012 G5, Vicenza, Italy; Mark Slocum, Weatherhead Center Fellow, Colonel, United States Air Force, “Panel and Mixer: Explore Careers with NGOs” Senior Advisor, Iraqi Air Force. Panelists discussed their work at various non- November 28, 2011 governmental organizations. An informal mixer While the scale and form of foreign aid is offered an opportunity for attendees to continue perpetually debated in politics, the media, talking with panelists as well as other individuals and academia, the question “Is it working?” is with experiences at NGOs. This program was addressed too infrequently. Do governments and co-sponsored by the Office of Career Services, international organizations achieve the impact Harvard Project for Sustainable Development, they should for their dollar, or are they simply International Relations Council, and the Social contributing to the cycle of underdevelopment? Innovation Collaborative. Can the private sector—businesses and non- April 27, 2012 profits alike—influence international development in a new and more effective way? Film screening and discussion on the use of depleted uranium weapons in the conflict “Severing the Sovereign Relationship between in Iraq. Directed by award-winning director Leaders and the People: The Impact of Foreign Aid?” Frieder Wagner, the story is told by citizens Speaker: Michael Fairbanks, Weatherhead of many nations. It opens with comments by Center Fellow, Philanthropist and Entrepreneur, two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Co-founder, the SEVEN Fund, Cambridge, MA. Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, December 5, 2011 and February 22, 2012 so-called depleted uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children. “Integration of Refugees and Long-Term Solutions Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague for Displaced Persons Worldwide: A Focus on of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Protection and Empowering Women and Children” Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled Speakers: Shadia Marhaban, Weatherhead to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to Center Fellow, Human Rights Activist, President assess uranium contamination in Iraq. and Co-founder, Aceh Women’s League; Nancy Polutan, Weatherhead Center Fellow, Regional Film Screening: “The Doctor, the Depleted Integration Officer, Regional Representation Uranium, and the Dying Children” for Central Europe, United Nations High International Relations Week Commissioner for Refugees, Budapest. April 9–13, 2012 Special Events International Intervention and Service Series of March 6, 2012 events to augment awareness of international “Women as Leaders in Postconflict Development” service opportunities and the politics and A special event hosted as part of Women’s Week, challenges of intervention. co-sponsored by the Women’s Center, Seneca, April 11, 2012 Inc. and Women’s Cabinet, International Relations on Campus, International Women’s Rights International Public Service Panel Collective, and the Undergraduate Global Health Panel discussion of public service opportunities Forum. What special contributions have women in international relations. Featured four made in the field of postconflict development, panelists from different backgrounds, including building peace after war, reconciliation from art, music, camps, conflict resolution, and hate, and understanding from ignorance? What humanitarian action.

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