WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y

2008–2009 ANNUAL REPORT

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION...... 4 Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Affairs...... 38 Turkey in the Modern World...... 40 ADMINISTRATION...... 6 U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar...... 41 Advisory Committee ...... 6 Communist and Postcommunist Countries Seminar...... 41 Executive Committee...... 6 Comparative Politics...... 42 Senior Advisors...... 7 Director’s Faculty Seminar...... 42 Steering Committee...... 7 Faculty Discussion Group on Political Economy...... 43 Administration...... 7 Future of War Seminar...... 46 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES...... 9 International Law-International Relations Seminar...... 46 Small Research Grants for Faculty...... 9 Research Workshop in Comparative Politics...... 48 Medium Research Grants for Faculty...... 9 Research Workshop in Political Economy...... 50 Large Research Grants for Faculty...... 9 RESEARCH PROGRAMS...... 53 Junior Faculty Synergy Semester Leaves...... 9 Canada Program...... 53 Large Grants for Faculty Research Semester Leaves...... 10 Center for History and Economics (CHE)...... 55 Research Incubation Fund...... 11 Fellows Program...... 58 Weatherhead Initiative in International Affairs...... 11 Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies...... 62 CONFERENCES...... 12 National Security Studies PRogram (NSSP)...... 69 Adaptive Authoritarianism: China’s Party-State Resilience Program on Transatlantic Relations...... 70 in Historical Perspective...... 12 Program on U.S.-Japan Relations...... 72 Globalization and Migration Workshop...... 13 Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics (JWE)...... 76 Global 1970s...... 14 Student Programs...... 78 Harvard Globalization Survey...... 15 Sociotechnical Imaginaries: Cross-National Comparisons...... 16 Immigrant Political Incorporation in Comparative Perspective...... 17 PIEP: Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference...... 18 Book-Manuscript Conference: Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism...... 19 Conceptualizing and Measuring Legitimacy for Comparative and Cross-National Analyses: A Research Agenda...... 19 Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change...... 19 Whither National Myths? Reflections on the Present and Future of National Myths...... 20 The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare Provision...... 20 Rising Powers Amidst International Turmoil: The United States and Europe Facing China and Russia...... 20 Adjusting to Economic and Social Challenges: Reconsidering the Roles of State and Market...... 22 RESEARCH SEMINARS...... 25 Africa Research Seminar...... 25 Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: European and American Perspectives...... 25 Conversations Across Borders: A Transnational Studies Initiative Seminar.....25 Cultural politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...... 26 Economic Growth and Development Seminar...... 26 Economic History Workshop...... 28 Study Group on the Future of the European Union...... 29 Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on the International Conflict Analysis and Resolution...... 30 Harvard Business School International Seminar...... 31 International Economics Workshop...... 32 International History Seminar...... 33 Middle East Seminar...... 34 Political Violence and Civil War Seminar...... 35 Religion and Politics: Local and Global...... 35 Science, Technology, and Society Seminar...... 36 South Asia Seminar...... 37 Seminar on Southeast Asia Security and International Relations...... 37 Transatlantic Relations Seminar...... 38

INTRODUCTION

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs had a very good year in 2008–2009, despite the dark financial clouds that began surging in the direction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. We continued to fund the most innovative faculty research projects, without doubt—and indeed at records levels. At the same time, it was a year marked by numerous negotiations about how the Center should contribute to relieve the financial difficulties of the FAS. No year to date has been marked by such a keen awareness of the need to be as effective and efficient as possible on a much narrower discretionary resource base.

First the good news. The WCFIA made a total of $837,553 in awards to directly support the research projects of our Faculty Associates. This compares with $617,212 and $809,012, in 2006–2007 and 2007–2008, the first two years of my directorship. Of the total in 2008–2009, faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School were awarded $200,000 (24% of our total); Sociology faculty were awarded $176,000 (21%); Economics $160,000 (19%), and Government $123,000 (15%). These numbers are of course skewed toward those departments and schools whose faculty received our Weatherhead Initiative and junior faculty synergy semester leave grants. (See below.) Moreover, a significant slice of our research funding went to studies that are clearly interdisciplinary. The Center has continued to meet one of our primary goals: to support innovative research that will have an impact in the social sciences broadly.

The year 2008–2009 was also innovative regarding the type of research support we aimed to provide. One of the goals I set when I accepted the Center directorship was to support our junior faculty. We made a big financial commitment to do this through the use of synergy-semester awards, designed to give junior faculty an extra term of research sabbatical in exchange for developing a new undergraduate research seminar the following semester based on that research. Assistant Professor of Government Muhammet Bas’s research on stochastic sources of international conflict, Assistant Professor of Government Nahomi Ichino’s field research on election observers in Ghana, and Assistant Professor of Sociology Filiz Garip’s research on Mexico-US migration flows were all supported in this fashion. They will be making new contributions to the undergraduate curriculum as a result. The WCFIA also created the research incubation fund, of which I was the fortunate recipient, for a project on trust and cooperation in confronting transnational crime. The concept of incubation is to leverage our resources to encourage Faculty Associates to invest in proposal development to submit to outside funding sources. In my case, Center funding will result in a proposal to the National Science Foundation.

Our most munificent research award, the Weatherhead Initiative, which is designed to support collaborative research of an especially innovative and far-reaching nature, went to four professors from the FAS for a project on “Understanding African Poverty over the Longue Durée.” The principle investigators for this outstanding project, of undoubted importance, are Professors Emmanuel K. Akyeampong (History), Robert H. Bates (Government), Nathan Nunn (Economics), and James A. Robinson (Government).

But now the bad news. The discretion of the Center to fund such innovative projects in new and creative ways will be significantly curtailed in coming years owing to our efforts to support the highest priorities of the FAS. In the spring of 2009, we committed to transfer approximately $700,000 toward these priorities for the following academic year, later increasing our commitment by $127,000. (We have promised the same level of contribution annually for the foreseeable future.) How are these funds to be used? Primarily, to support scheduled faculty sabbaticals and graduate students’ dissertation completion grants. While we realize that the Center will only thrive when the FAS thrives, we also recognize that this commitment to FAS priorities curtails our independent ability to pick and choose those projects and those investigators whose work on international, transnational, and comparative social phenomena merits extra financial support in order to reach fruition.

Nonetheless, the Weatherhead Center is as vibrant an intellectual venue as ever. These pages describe all of the scholarly work we were able to support in 2008–2009. We were proud to sponsor a very broad range of research seminars meeting on a weekly or an occasional basis, on issues from political development to international law and international relations and from science and society to transatlantic relations. Our faculty-led programs continued to thrive. Truly, the intellectual bounty is almost indescribable in a brief introduction such as this.

Beth A. Simmons, Center Director

INTRODUCTION • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 5 ADMINISTRATION

ADVISORY COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The Advisory Committee periodically reviews The Executive Committee, made up of Harvard the work of the Center and its programs, faculty, provides overall policy guidance to assesses the Center’s performance, expresses the Weatherhead Center and is a forum for its judgment, and makes recommendations scholarly exchange among its members. regarding the Center’s strategic direction. Beth A. Simmons, Director, Weatherhead Dr. Adele S. Simmons (Chair) Vice-Chair and Center; Clarence Dillon Professor of Senior Executive, Chicago Metropolis 2020 International Affairs, Department of Government Mr. Frank Boas, Attorney Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Professor of Hon. Richard W. Fisher, President & CEO, History, Department of History; Professor Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas of African and African American Studies, Mr. David E. Goel, Managing General Partner, Department of African and African Matrix Capital Management Fund LLC American Studies; Harvard College Professor Dr. Diego Hidalgo, President, Fundación para Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo of Government, Department of Government; Exterior (FRIDE) Professor of African and African American Ms. Wakako Hironaka, Representative, House Studies, Department of African and African of Councillors, Japan American Studies Dr. Pierre B. A. Keller, Former Senior Partner, Steven B. Bloomfield, Executive Director, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie Weatherhead Center Professor Byung-Kook Kim, Professor of William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of Political Science, Korea University International Science, Public Policy, and Human Dr. Ira Kukin, Chair of the Board, Apollo Development, Harvard Kennedy School Technologies International Corp. Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor Professor Helen Milner, B.C. Forbes Professor of International Economics, Department of of Politics and International Affairs; Chair, Economics Department of Politics; Director, Center for Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of Globalization and Governance, Woodrow International Development, Harvard Kennedy Wilson School of Public and International School; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Affairs, Princeton University Latin American Studies, Harvard University Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis, University J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Lecturer in International Relations; Chair, Professor of the Practice of Religion and South East European Studies, St. Antony’s Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School College, University of Oxford, United Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Kingdom Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor Sir Michael Palliser, Vice Chairman of the of China in World Affairs, Department of Board, Salzburg Seminar Government Dr. Carol Richards, Philanthropic Advisor Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor Mr. Hartley R. Rogers, Managing Director, of European Studies; Professor of Sociology, Aries Advisors, LLC Department of Sociology; Professor of Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter (through African and African American Studies, January 2009), Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 Department of African and African University Professor of Politics and American Studies International Affairs; Dean, Woodrow Jennifer Leaning, Professor of the Practice Wilson School of Public and International of International Health, Harvard School Affairs, Princeton University of Public Health; Codirector, Harvard Mrs. Celia J. Weatherhead, The Weatherhead Humanitarian Initiative; Senior Advisor, Foundation International and Policy Studies, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies; Associate Mr. Albert J. Weatherhead III, The Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical Weatherhead Foundation School Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, STEERING COMMITTEE Department of Government; Director, Graduate Student Programs, Weatherhead The Steering Committee is comprised of Center Faculty Associates of the Center who convene Erez Manela, Dunwalke Associate Professor of periodically during the academic year to American History; Director, Undergraduate consider applications for faculty research Student Programs, Weatherhead Center funding. Kathleen Molony, Director, Fellows Program, Weatherhead Center Beth A. Simmons, Director, Weatherhead Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor Center; Clarence Dillon Professor of of Japanese Politics, Department of International Affairs, Department of Government; Director, Program on U.S.- Government Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center; Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Professor of Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese History, Department of History; Professor Studies, Harvard University of African and African American Studies, James A. Robinson, Professor of Government Department of African and African American Studies; Harvard College Professor Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Theodore C. Bestor, Professor of Anthropology Kennedy School and Japanese Studies; Chair, Department of Anthropology Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Departments of William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor Government and Sociology of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development, Harvard Kennedy Ann Marie Wilson, Graduate Student Associate School Representative, Weatherhead Center Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James SENIOR ADVISORS Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Department of Senior Advisors provide wise council to Government the Center Director and to the Executive Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor Committee as needed. All Senior Advisors are of European Studies; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Professor of Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates. African and African American Studies, Jorge I. Domínguez, Chair, Harvard Academy Department of African and African for International and Area Studies, American Studies Weatherhead Center; Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American ADMINISTRATION Politics and Economics, Department of Beth A. Simmons, Director Government; Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University Steven B. Bloomfield, Executive Director Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor Beth Baiter, Staff Assistant to Professors of European Studies, Department of Richard N. Cooper, Samuel P. Huntington, Government and Iain Johnston; Undergraduate Research Staff Assistant Stanley H. Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Jessica Barnard, Project Officer, Project on Department of Government Justice, Welfare, and Economics Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor Katherine Brady, Assistant to the Executive of History, Department of History Director Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Sultan of Oman Professor of Kristin Caulfield, Coordinator of Web International Relations, Harvard Kennedy Communications School; University Distinguished Service Helen Clayton, Administrator, Canada Professor Program Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Michelle L. Eureka, Administrative Officer Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy Shinju Fujihira, Associate Director, Program School on U.S.-Japan Relations

ADMINISTRATION • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 7 Jessica Hejtmanek, Project Coordinator, Transnational Studies Initiative; Staff Assistant to Student Programs (through February 2009) Kathleen Hoover, Executive Assistant to Professor Jorge I. Domínguez; Program Coordinator, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Marina Ivanova, Assistant to the Director, Beth A. Simmons; Staff Assistant to Professors Richard N. Cooper and Jeffry A. Frieden (from August 2008) Sofía Jarrín-Thomas, Publications Assistant Katharine Childs Jones, Assistant to Professor Robert H. Bates Karl Kaiser, Program Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations Lianna Kushi, Staff Assistant, Program on U.S.- Japan Relations Elizabeth Lawler, Assistant to Professor Herbert C. Kelman Michael Mathai, Research Assistant Patrick McVay, Director of Finance Kathleen Molony, Director, Fellows Program Thomas Murphy, Coordinator of Housing and Affiliate Services William Nehring, Program Coordinator, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Alexander Noonan, Assistant to the Director, Beth A. Simmons; Staff Assistant to Professor Jeffry A. Frieden (through August 2008) Jennifer Noveck, Research Assistant, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Amanda Pearson, Director of Publications Clare Putnam, Program Coordinator, Student Programs and Fellowships Jason Ri, Program Coordinator, Fellows Program Adelaide Shalhope, Conference and Special Events Coordinator Charles Smith, Assistant Financial Officer Ann Townes, Program Coordinator, The National Security Studies Program Thanh Tran, Financial Associate (through March 2009) Monet Uva, Staff Assistant Laurence H. Winnie, Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS FOR FACULTY Matthew Baum, “Information, Parties, and War: How Media and Electoral Institutions Shape Each year the Center awards a limited number Public Influence on Democratic Foreign Policy” of grants up to $5,000 to individual scholars to conduct research related to the Center’s LARGE RESEARCH GRANTS FOR FACULTY core interests. This research must focus on international, transnational, global, or The Weatherhead Center supports large comparative national topics and may address research proposals up to $80,000 related to contemporary or historical topics. It must the Center’s core interests. This research must include rigorous policy analysis as well as the focus on international, transnational, global, or study of countries and regions outside the comparative national topics and may address United States. Listed below are the recipients contemporary or historical topics. It must include and their research areas: rigorous policy analysis as well as the study of countries and regions outside the United States. Jeffry A. Frieden, “The Political Economy of Exchange Rates” There were no large research grants for faculty in 2008–2009. Carolyn Elkins, “Twilight: The End of the British Empire after the Second World War” JUNIOR FACULTY SYNERGY SEMESTER LEAVES Peter A. Hall, “Explaining Variation in the Starting in 2007–2008, and to encourage the Shape of Health Gradient across Nations” professional development of junior faculty Ian Miller, “Tsunami: Japan and the Global towards teaching excellence and cutting-edge History of Natural Disaster” creative research, the Center now offers Junior Faculty Synergy Semesters in international MEDIUM RESEARCH GRANTS FOR FACULTY affairs to top assistant- and associate-level Faculty Associates. The Center’s support in Faculty Associates are eligible for medium this category enables faculty to pursue research grants up to $20,000 for research that projects that, in turn, become the area of focus brings together faculty from different fields. for an undergraduate seminar or tutorial. This research must focus on international, The synergy semester thereby also improves transnational, global, or comparative national Harvard College undergraduates’ exposure topics and may address contemporary or to high quality social science research in historical topics. It must include rigorous policy international affairs and to prepare them to analysis as well as the study of countries and partner actively with faculty on joint research. regions outside the United States. Listed below From such relationships, the Center expects are the recipients and their research areas: that superb senior theses and important faculty research assistant relationships will develop. The Martin Whyte, “Chinese Attitudes Toward recipients of faculty research semester leaves for Inequality and Distributive Injustice: Changes at 2008–2009 include: the Societal and Individual Levels” Muhammet Bas,“Stochastic Sources of Timothy Colton, “Russia and the Rest: International Conflict” Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space” In two related projects, Muhammet Bas focused on the causal effects of different types Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, “Akan Society of stochastic factors on states’ conflict and crisis and the Culture of Power in Ghana, c. 1650 to behavior. In the first project, he analyzed the Recent Times” effects of exogenous (e.g., economic decline) or endogenous (e.g., arming) stochastic changes in states’ capabilities on the occurrence of war. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 9 The second project dealt with the effect of Although scholarship on electoral fraud has natural disasters and environmental shocks on focused on problems around election day, the likelihood of international conflict. This political parties have strong incentives to project was aimed at extending the theory of inflate the voter’s register with their own the origins of war and also at contributing to supporters. Voter registration fraud and policy-makers’ assessment of the consequences other pre-election irregularities can create of climate change. The purpose was to significant doubts about the election outcome construct a collection of formal models that and the legitimacy of political institutions, with together provide theoretical foundations for significant consequences for democratization the mechanisms through which environmental and democratic consolidation. This project change may affect war, and to test predictions studied pre-election fraud in new democracies, derived from these models against the historical by estimating the effect of domestic observers record of environmental change and conflict. on voter registration in a randomized field experiment in Ghana. Nahomi Ichino Filiz Garip, “Identifying Temporal Patterns, examined the effects of domestic observers Linking Fragmented Theories: Cluster Analysis of on change in voter registration, vote choice Mexico-US Migration Flows from 1970–2000” and turnout, and public trust in political This project sought to provide a novel institutions, through their indirect effects on perspective to understand the migration process registration and the behavior of political parties between Mexico and the United States in the and electoral officials whose expectations period 1970–2000. Prior work focuses on of being observed have been changed. She the distinctions between migrants and non- investigated whether direct contact with or migrants, treating migrants as a homogenous knowledge of observers increases citizens’ trust group. Alternatively, Filiz Garip posited that in political institutions, likely a key component different configurations of social, economic, of democratic consolidation. She also examined and political contexts of sending and receiving whether any effect that observers might have communities, combined with individuals’ on the conduct of party agents and electoral own or family characteristics, define different officials, even if a citizen does not know about migration types. Combining data from a variety the observer’s presence, has any further effect of quantitative and historical sources, she on a citizen’s attitudes and her assessment proposed to identify different migration types of the quality of the election. Following this from Mexico to the United States using cluster research project, she planned to develop an analysis, a methodology widely used in biology undergraduate course on elections and electoral and computer science, but not in the social fraud, emphasizing theory building and sciences. Preliminary results strongly indicated research design. the potential of the project for providing novel insights: (i) the relative presence and dominance LARGE GRANTS FOR FACULTY RESEARCH of each migration type follows a clear time SEMESTER LEAVES pattern, and (ii) the time-ordering of migration The Center believes that one of the most types coincides with the time-ordering of the important forms of support for faculty members development of social and economic theories is the opportunity for a sustained period of on which those types are based. These insights, research. Each year the Center considers afforded by the methodological and conceptual proposals from its Faculty Associates for awards advances in the project, were integrated into of salary support for one-semester leaves to educational activities through an undergraduate conduct research related to the Center’s core tutorial designed to guide students through the interests. preparation of an original research paper. There were no large grants for faculty research Nahomi Ichino,“Electoral Misconduct semester leaves in 2008–2009. and Domestic Election Observers: A Field Experiment in Ghana” RESEARCH INCUBATION FUND in nature, justifying their prosecution in any jurisdiction in the world (universal Research in the social sciences has undergone jurisdiction). The principal investigators significant changes in the past few decades. were interested primarily in the politics and The complexity of the subject matter, the sociology of states’ response to trends in sophistication of methods and theories, and the transnational crime, focusing on international demands for expertise and information to launch and transnational legal cooperation in order to innovative research are increasing at a rapid pace. develop clusters of hypotheses that were relevant, theoretically informed, and empirically verifiable. Modern research requires teamwork, specialized This project was intended to culminate in a expertise, and planning. Its financial demands credible bid for major outside funding. also require administrative skills and access to major outside funding. Such endeavors are potentially risky as well. Ideas may not pan WEATHERHEAD INITIATIVE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS out, effort becomes dissipated, and funding The Weatherhead Initiative in International may be hard to come by. Nascent teams can get Affairs supports large-scale, innovative distracted and discouraged—and their funds research on international topics at Harvard. easily depleted, often before a promising project The emphasis is on interfaculty research with is able to get off the ground. a clear integrative core. Between $170,000 The Center’s research faculty in international and $220,000 is available each year to support affairs needs support to think and plan. This is one major project. Small planning grants for especially true in a project’s early—and possibly potential future projects are also available. unstable—stages. This is a fund for incubation, All Harvard professors with continuing to help large-scale research projects get off the regular appointments are eligible to submit ground and on their way to securing major proposals, and faculty members from other outside support. research institutions in the United States or abroad can also be on the research teams. The The Weatherhead Center has earmarked Initiative Selection Committee is composed three awards of $30,000 each to support the of faculty members from different Schools development of faculty research proposals with of the University. The Committee screens the intent of submitting proposals to major proposals and makes recommendations to the outside funding agencies or foundations (the Weatherhead Center Executive Committee. National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and various private 2008–2009 Weatherhead Initiative Project foundations). The recipients of research “Understanding African Poverty over the incubation grants for 2008–2009 include: Longue Durée”

Beth A. Simmons, “Cooperative Exchanges in PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Confronting Transnational Crime: Institutions, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Professor of Transactions and Trust Relationships in the History, Department of History; Professor Transnational Administration of Justice” of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African Transnational legal cooperation has been American Studies; Harvard College Professor studied from a legal perspective, but has Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science been largely ignored by the social sciences. of Government, Department of Government; This project sought to describe, explain, and Professor of African and African American ultimately to predict cooperative approaches Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University across countries in their efforts to confront Nathan Nunn, Assistant Professor, Department transnational crime, to include crimes that are of Economics, Harvard University planned or perpetrated across national borders, James A. Robinson, Professor of Government, by foreign citizens within a jurisdiction, Department of Government, Harvard or crimes that have been defined by the University international community as international

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 11 CONFERENCES

ADAPTIVE AUTHORITARIANISM: CHINA’S PARTY- Discussant: Andrew Mertha, associate professor STATE RESILIENCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE of government, Cornell University JULY 14–16, 2008 “CCP Cadre Policy in the Early Years of the PRC,” Yang Kuisong, professor of history, East For over thirty years, China watchers have been China Normal University forecasting the imminent collapse of the com- Discussant: Steven Goldstein, professor of munist political system. Mao Zedong’s death government, Smith College in September 1976 raised early expectations Panel II: Central-local Relations that the communist party-state would not long Chair: Sebastian Heilmann survive its charismatic founder. In the 1980s, “Building the Local State in Modern China,” Deng Xiaoping’s bold economic reforms led to Joe Fewsmith, director of East Asian Studies predictions that China’s emerging civil society Program; professor of international relations would soon undo the communist system. The and political science, Boston University Tiananmen Uprising of 1989, followed by the Discussant: Elizabeth Remick, associate demise of communism in Eastern Europe and professor of political science, Tufts University the former Soviet Union, heightened these “Governing Central-Local Dynamics: Discovering expectations. Since the 1990s, the much-heralded Historical Continuities and Institutional surge of popular protest and supposed rising Resilience,” Jae Ho Chung, associate professor “rights consciousness” on the part of ordinary of international relations, Seoul National Chinese citizens has further fueled such specula- University tion. For this conference, the chairs Elizabeth J. Discussant: Steven Levitsky, director, Student Perry and Sebastian Heilmann asked for formal Programs, Weatherhead Center; professor of scholarly papers to trace the major continuities government, Department of Government, Harvard University and changes in a key policy arena from the peri- od of the revolutionary base areas (and urban “The Methods and Meaning of County Political Reform in China,” Yu Jianrong, professor of underground movement) to the present. rural development, Chinese Academy of Social Co-Chairs: Elizabeth J. Perry, Weatherhead Sciences Center Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Discussant: Martin Dimitrov, assistant Senior Scholar; Henry Rosovsky Professor of professor of government, Dartmouth College Government, Department of Government; director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard TUESDAY, JULY 15 University; and Sebastian Heilmann, professor Panel III: Civil Society and Social Policies of political science, Trier University MONDAY, JULY 14 Chair: Roderick MacFarquhar, Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate; Leroy B. Williams Panel I: Law, Media, and Party Professor of History and Political Science, Chair: Elizabeth Perry Department of Government, Harvard University “A Return to Populist Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform,” Benjamin Liebman, “A Third Way for the Third Sector: Using Revolutionary Strategies to Govern NGOs in professor of law; director, Center for Chinese Contemporary China,” Nara Dillon, assistant Legal Studies, Columbia University professor of political studies, Bard College Discussant: William Alford, Weatherhead Discussant: Robert Weller, professor; Center Faculty Associate; Henry L. Stimson chair, Department of Anthropology, Boston Professor of Law; vice dean, Graduate Program University and International Legal Studies; director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School “Good Believers and Good Citizens in the Shanxi Catholic Church,” Henrietta Harrison, professor “Back to the Future? Revolutionary Legacies in of history, Department of History, Harvard Media Structure, Ideology, and Practices,” Zhao University Yuezhi, associate professor of communication, Simon Fraser University Discussant: William Kirby, Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate; T. M. Chang Professor Studies; Weatherhead Center Senior Adviser; of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate; Antonio of Business Administration, Harvard Business Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin School; director, Fairbank Center for Chinese American Politics and Economics, Department Studies, Harvard University of Government; vice provost for international “Social Learning and Policy Change: The affairs, Harvard University Case of Rural Healthcare,” Wang Shaoguang, Panel VI: Economic Policy: Power and Patronage chair professor; chairperson, Department of Government and Public Administration; Chair: Jorge I. Domínguez director, Universities Service Centre for China “Rebuilding the Robust Hierarchy: Incentives and Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong Job Design in China’s Reform,” Barry Naughton, Discussant: Martin Whyte, Weatherhead So Kwanlok Professor of Chinese and Center Faculty Associate; professor of sociology, International Affairs, University of California at Department of Sociology, Harvard University San Diego Panel IV: Social Movements and Mass Campaigns Discussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy Chair: William Kirby School “From Mass Campaigns to Revolutionary “Government and Business in China: The Engineering: Constructing a New Socialist Enduring Hold of Authoritarian Controls,” Parks Countryside,” Elizabeth Perry Coble, James L. Sellers Professor of History, Discussant: Thomas Bernstein, Professor University of Nebraska Emeritus of Government, Columbia University Discussant: Edward Steinfeld, associate “From a ‘Non-governmental Organ’ to a ‘Quasi- professor of political economy, Massachusetts party Organ’: On the Campaign for Ideological Institute of Technology Remolding and the Process of State Control of GLOBALIZATION AND MIGRATION WORKSHOP Private Newspapers in Shanghai—the Case of Wenhui Daily,” Zhang Jishun, chairwoman, SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 University Council, East China Normal University This workshop brought together experts on Discussant: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research global migration to discuss how different Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, advanced industrial countries cope with skill Harvard University shortages. To make the task at hand more “What Is to Be Undone: Official Knowledge manageable, this workshop focused (although and Governing Practices in the Era of Reform,” not exclusively so) on the health care sector. Patricia Thornton, professor; director, Institute for Asian Studies, Portland State University Despite the fact that trade in the service sector has been growing dramatically, the Discussant: Roderick MacFarquhar fields of international political economy and WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 comparative political economy have not paid Panel V: Economic Policy: Innovation and Adaptation sufficient attention to this trend. One goal of the conference was to think about how institutional Chair: Thomas Bernstein differences in labor markets and training “From Local Experiments to National Policy: systems, as well as differences in political The Origins of China’s Distinctive Policy Process,” configurations among advanced industrial Sebastian Heilmann societies shape the scope and the nature of Discussant: Lily Tsai, associate professor of “service sector trade.” Although the participants political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology were political scientists working in the fields of international trade and comparative political “Adapting the Old, Learning the New: Chinese Development and Foreign Economic Strategies,” economy, the workshop was interdisciplinary. Chris Reardon, associate professor, Political Chair: Margarita Estévez-Abe, Weatherhead Science Department, University of New Center Faculty Associate; Paul Sack Associate Hampshire Professor of Political Economy, Department of Discussant: Jorge I. Domínguez, chairman, Government, Harvard University Harvard Academy for International and Area

CONFERENCES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 13 Migration of Nurses by Harvard University Press, The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective. “Sending for Nurses: Importing Care to US Hospitals, 1945–2008,” Barbara Brush, associate Co-Chairs: Niall Ferguson, Weatherhead professor, Division of Health Promotion and Center Faculty Associate (on leave fall 2008); Risk Reduction, University of Michigan Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, “Emerging Trends in Nurse Migration,” Barbara Department of History, Harvard University; Nichols, CEO, The Commission of Graduates William Ziegler Professor of Business from Foreign Nursing Schools, International Administration, Business, Government, and the Centre on Nurse Migration International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School; Charles S. Maier, Weatherhead Perspectives from Developing Countries Center Faculty Associate; Leverett Saltonstall professor of history, Department of History, “Medical Tourism,” Devesh Kapur, director, Harvard University; Erez Manela, director, Center for Advanced Study of India; associate Undergraduate Student Programs; Weatherhead professor of political science, University of Center Faculty Associate (on leave 2008–2009); Pennsylvania Dunwalke Associate Professor of American Effects on Human Capital and Economic Development History, Department of History, Harvard University; and Daniel Sargent, assistant “Brain Drain and Economic Development—An professor of US history, University of California Overview,” Hillel Rapoport, senior lecturer, at Berkeley Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 Israel Introduction and Opening Remarks US Immigration Policies for Skilled Workers Niall Ferguson Michael S. Teitelbaum, Vice President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Panel I: Global Challenges and International Society

GLOBAL 1970s Chair: Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University OCTOBER 9–11, 2008 “Future Shock: The End of the World as They Knew It,” Matthew Connelly, associate Recognizing that the decade of the 1970s professor of History, Columbia University is an important new frontier for archive- “Smallpox Eradication and the Globalization of based international history, this conference Health in the 1970s,” Erez Manela was organized to think through its larger “The Rise, Fall, and Revival of International implications. The conference organizers Human Rights,” Mike Morgan, PhD candidate, considered whether the framework of cold war Department of History, Yale University détente, which tends to dominate historical “The Transformation of International scholarship, was the most useful way to view Institutions, and the ‘Shock’ of the Global,” the decade. The aim was to understand how the Glenda Sluga, professor of international history, seventies relates to other narratives—including University of Sydney; *Glenda Sluga’s paper was the rise of nonstate actors in international summarized by Akira Iriye society, the emergence of transnational issues Discussant: David Armitage, professor, such as human rights and environmental Department of History, Harvard University protection, and the intensification of Panel II: Bipolarity and Détente: economic globalization—and the intent was to The Cold War and Beyond investigate the implications of such large-scale Chair: Thomas Schwartz, professor of history, transformations for the research and writing Vanderbilt University of recent international history. This conference “Wrestling with Parity—the Nuclear Revolution was a collaborative effort to develop interpretive Revisited,” Frank Gavin, Tom Slick Professor of frameworks and future research agendas, International Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School bringing together 25 to 30 specialists in postwar of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin international and global history. The expected “Containing Globalism: The United States and result was a compilation of the conference the Developing World in the 1970s,” Mark papers in a volume to be published in 2009 Atwood Lawrence, associate professor of history, University of Texas at Austin “The Environment and Environmentalism of Modern World History; chair of graduate in the 1970s,” John McNeill, professor of studies, Department of History, University of history; university professor, School of Foreign Nebraska Service and History Department, Georgetown Panel V: Transformations of the World Economy University “Universal Nationalism: Christian America’s Chair: Niall Ferguson Response to the Years of Upheaval,” Andrew “Converging Crises: International Finance and Preston, university lecturer in history; fellow, Political Legitimacy,” Jeremy Adelman, Walter Clare College, University of Cambridge Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture; director, Council for Discussant: Lien-Hang Nguyen, assistant International Teaching and Research, Princeton professor, Department of History, University of University Kentucky “Global Capital and American Debt Institutions,” Panel III: From Multipolarity to Globalization Louis Hyman, fellow, American Academy of Chair: Erez Manela Arts and Sciences “‘Malaise’: Anticipating the Crisis of Capitalist “American Multinational Enterprises and the Democracies in the Seventies,” Charles S. Maier Politics of Globalization in the 1970s,” Vernie Oliveiro, PhD candidate, Department of “The United States and ‘Globalization’ in the History, Harvard University 1970s,” Daniel Sargent “The Great Retransformation: The Global 1970s “The Great Transformation: China in the and the Echo of the Great Depression,” Alan Long 1970s,” Odd Arne Westad, professor Taylor, professor of economics; director, Center of international history, London School of for the Evolution of the Global Economy, Economics University of California at Davis “Henry Kissinger and the Geopolitics of Discussant: Lawrence Summers, Charles Globalization,” Jeremi Suri, professor of history; W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard director, European Union Center of Excellence, University, Harvard Kennedy School University of Wisconsin Discussant: Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Plenary Session Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University Chair: Charles S. Maier SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Tim Borstelmann; Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Panel IV: Ideological and Devotional Upheaval Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, in World Affairs Department of History; director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Chair: Bruce Mazlish, professor of history, Harvard University; Niall Ferguson; and Odd Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arne Westad “An Uncertain Trajectory: Islam’s Contemporary Globalization, 1971–1979,” Ayesha Jalal, HARVARD GLOBALIZATION SURVEY Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts OCTOBER 24, 2008 University “Uncivil Society,” Stephen Kotkin, Rosengarten The Harvard Globalization Survey Conference Professor of Modern and Contemporary was an invitation-only workshop to develop History; professor of international affairs, the the design of the Harvard Globalization Woodrow Wilson School for Policy, Princeton Survey (HGS). The goal of the HGS project University was to examine the way governments, “Globalizing Sisterhood: International Women’s firms, employees, and nongovernmental Year and the Limits of Identity Politics,” Jocelyn Olcott, associate professor of history, Duke groups are responding to globalization. The University project involved coordinated surveys of a sample of firms and employees in various “Electric Sex: Rock ‘n Roll’s Transnational Sexualities,” Rebecca Sheehan, PhD candidate, industries, matching these with surveys of Department of History, University of Southern trade associations and labor unions in the California same industries, and surveys of legislators Discussant: Tim Borstelmann, Elwood N. and representing electoral districts in which Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor the industries are concentrated. The

CONFERENCES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 15 project focused on the challenges posed Framing Imaginaries by international trade, investment, and Sang-Hyun Kim, research fellow, Harvard immigration flows, and how various actors are Kennedy School responding in economic and political ways, Michael M.J. Fischer, professor of either by resisting or accelerating adjustment. anthropology and of science and technology studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chair: Michael Hiscox, Weatherhead Center Session I Faculty Associate; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Chair: Andrew Lakoff, associate professor of Government, Harvard University sociology and science studies, University of California at San Diego SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES: CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS “Consuming Biotechnology—of Rice, Pharma, and Risk,” Nancy N. Chen, professor of NOVEMBER 14–15, 2008 anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz and Scripps College This workshop built on a project funded by “Imaginaries Of and By the Nation-State: the National Science Foundation entitled Corporate Biotechnologies in India and the “Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Science Philippines,” Elta Smith, SV Ciriacy-Wantrup and Technology Policy: A Cross-National Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Comparison.” It examined the relationship Economics and Political Economy, University of California at Berkeley between national political cultures and the production, projection, or uptake of what the “Logic, Ideology, Strategy, Epistemology: Keywords for an Analysis of Pharmaceutical organizers called “sociotechnical imaginaries” Economies,” Kaushik Sunder Rajan, associate concerning science and technology in professor of anthropology, University of different countries and regions. Sociotechnical California at Irvine imaginaries are defined as imagined forms of Session II social life and social order centering on the development and fulfillment of innovative Chair: Rob Doubleday, research fellow, Department of Geography, University of scientific and/or technological projects. Cambridge They at once describe attainable futures and “Asian Regeneration?: Stem Cell Research in prescribe the kinds of futures that ought South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand,” Charis to be attained. As an influential part of the Thompson, associate professor of rhetoric and currency of contemporary politics, these women’s studies, University of California at imaginaries have the power to direct research, Berkeley shape technological design, channel public “Securing the Future or a Threat to Democracy?: expenditures, and justify the inclusion or Stem Cell Research Policy Debates in South exclusion of citizens with respect to the Korea,” Sang-Hyun Kim, research fellow, presumed benefits of technological progress. Harvard Kennedy School Given the political salience of such imaginaries, “Imagining the Past, Present, and Future in and the risks and instabilities that inevitably Japanese Biotechnology,” Joan Fujimura, accompany their realization, understanding how professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison they are formed and implemented is necessary to any serious exploration of international Session III collaboration and coexistence. Chair: Sang-Hyun Kim Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Weatherhead Center “Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics Faculty Associate; Pforzheimer Professor of of Freedom in Indonesia,” Joshua Barker, Science and Technology Studies, Harvard associate professor of anthropology, University Kennedy School of Toronto FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 “‘Late’ Industrialization and Visions of Social Justice in Indonesia,” Suzanne Moon, assistant Welcome and Introduction professor of history of technology, University of Oklahoma Sheila Jasanoff “The Politics of Skill,” William K. Storey, IMMIGRANT POLITICAL INCORPORATION IN assistant professor of history, Millsaps College COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 DECEMBER 5–6, 2008 Session IV The goal of the workshop was to develop the Chair: Clark Miller, associate professor of next step in the social science analysis on political science, Consortium for Science, immigration to Western democratic states. Policy, and Outcomes, Arizona State University Scholars in this field have recently developed “Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Nanotechnology a rich literature of case studies of particular Assessment and Governance: Comparing Europe groups, locations, or political activities. Building and the United States,” Regula Valérie Burri, Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Federal Institute on this work by defining terms, generating of Technology (ETH), Zurich; University of testable hypotheses, and addressing questions Zurich of measurement, causation, consequences, “Discretionary Predictions: A Democratic and comparison, the workshop’s goals were Analysis of UK Nanotechnology Policy,” ambitious: how to leverage particular insights Rob Doubleday, senior research associate, to develop a few broad theories capable Department of Geography, University of of shaping the field of immigrant political Cambridge incorporation in Western nations, and thereby “What Does It Mean to Address Imagined Publics to help orient the collective research agenda. in Contemporary Techno-sciences? A UK-based The conference participants considered a Review,” Brian Wynne, professor of science studies; research director, Centre for the Study variety of issues: What does “immigrant of Environmental Change (CSEC), Lancaster political incorporation” encompass? What are University the mechanisms of political incorporation, and Session V what are the mechanisms that block or distort it? With whom and under what circumstances Chair: Charis Thompson do immigrants form political coalitions? How “Envisioning Information Technology in does immigrant political incorporation now Rwanda,” Warigia Bowman, assistant professor, resemble or differ from immigrant political Department of Public Policy Leadership, University of Mississippi incorporation a century ago? How does political incorporation map onto social, economic, and “Big Science Projects as Thought Experiments cultural incorporation? Which differences in Global Civil Society,” Sharon J. Traweek, associate professor of history of science, across countries—such as demography, University of California at Los Angeles political structure, and national culture—have “Politics and the Technological Imaginary–A the biggest impact on different pathways Case Study from Gujarat,” Shiv Visvanathan, toward immigrant incorporation or its failure? professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Despite their important differences, are there Information and Communication Technology, similarities across nations in how immigrants India can be successfully brought into the political Session VI system? The event brought together about Chair: Sheila Jasanoff twenty scholars, including social scientists engaged in the study of immigration as well “US Technological Leadership and the Shaping those whose research, though not specifically of Postwar Europe,” John Krige, Kranzberg Professor of History, School of History, focused on immigration issues, may shed light Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of on the processes by which new groups and Technology actors become politically incorporated. “Globalist Imaginations of World Order: 1945– Chair: Jennifer L. Hochschild, Weatherhead Present,” Clark A. Miller, associate professor Center Faculty Associate; Project on Justice of political science, Consortium for Science, Welfare and Economics Faculty Committee Policy, and Outcomes, Arizona State University (on leave spring 2009), Weatherhead Center; “Two Regimes of Global Health,” Andrew Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Lakoff, associate professor, Department of Department of Government; professor of Sociology, University of California at San Diego African and African American studies,

CONFERENCES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 17 Department of African and African American Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Studies, Harvard University; Harvard College Regional Research, State University of New Professor York at Albany I. Participation and Representation “Racial Discrimination and Immigrant Incorporation Institutional Context and “Immigrants,” Louis DeSipio, associate Responses to Exclusion,” Mary C. Waters, M.E. professor of political science; chair, Department Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of of Sociology, Harvard University California at Irvine “Contingent Forms of Inclusion for “Explaining Higher Levels of Minority (Unauthorized) Im/Migrants in Spain,” Maria Representation in Birmingham than in Lille or Lorena Cook, associate professor; chair, Roubaix (1980s and 1990s),” Romain Garbaye, Department of International and Comparative Maître de Conférences, Université Paris-IV Labor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Sorbonne Cornell University “Political Incorporation, Economic Inclusion, “Immigrant Political Incorporation,” Michael and Race,” Kitty Calavita, professor of Minkenberg, 2007–2009 Max Weber Chair criminology, law and society, University of for German and European Studies, New York California at Irvine University II. Institutions and Policies PIEP: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC POLICY CONFERENCE “A Model of (Immigrant) Group Political Incorporation,” Robert C. Lieberman, professor DECEMBER 6, 2008 of political science; chair, Department of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Over the past 25 years, two separate strands of University research in political economy have developed. “Immigrant Political Incorporation: Measuring The first is the rigorous analysis of the impact the Dependent Variable and Questioning the of political institutions on political behavior and Effect of Policymaking,” Erik Bleich, associate political outcomes. The second is the analysis professor of political science, Middlebury of the making of economic policy, which has College tried to develop theoretically consistent and “Framing, Ideology and Support for Immigration empirically grounded explanations of economic Restrictions and Immigrant Rights,” Gallya Lahav, associate professor of political science, policy outcomes. Typically, they have developed State University of New York at Stony Brook entirely segregated from each other: the analysis of political institutions without concern for “Integration of the European Second Generation,” Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger, researcher, economic policy-making implications, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences study of economic policymaking with limited III. Religion, State and Nation attention to the institutional environment in which it takes place. The goal of this “Tracks of IPI,” Christian Joppke, professor of conference was to encourage the development politics, The American University of Paris, France of an approach to politics and policymaking “A Two-Part Model of State-Islam Governance that is theoretically rigorous and empirically In Contemporary Europe,” Jonathan Laurence, systematic with regard to both political assistant professor of political science, Boston institutions and economic factors. College Co-Chairs: Jeffry A. Frieden, Weatherhead “Model of Political Integration,” Jean Tillie, Center Faculty Associate; Stanfield Professor professor of electoral politics; deputy director, of International Peace, Department of Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Government, Harvard University. Kenneth A. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Shepsle, Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate; IV. Boundaries George D. Markham Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard “Ethno-racial Boundary Decline,” Richard University Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology “War, Geographic Scale, and Constitutional and Public Policy; director, Center for Social Control,” David Stasavage, professor of politics, and Demographic Analysis; director, Lewis New York University Discussants: Konstantin Sonin, lecturer, Higher produced highly gendered consequences in the School of Economics, Russia; and Adrian labor market. The goal of this conference was to Vermeule, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, gather experts to critique and review this text, Harvard Law School still in draft. “A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs,” Nicola Persico, professor of Chair: Margarita Estévez-Abe, Weatherhead economics; professor of law and society, New Center Faculty Associate; Paul Sack Associate York University Professor of Political Economy, Department of Government, Harvard University Discussants: Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, associate professor, Harris School of Public CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING LEGITIMACY Policy Studies, University of Chicago; and FOR COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-NATIONAL Daniel E. Ho, associate professor of law; Robert ANALYSES: A RESEARCH AGENDA E. Paradise Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Research, Stanford Law School MARCH 14, 2009 “Political Accountability under Alternative For details about this conference, see the Harvard Institutional Regimes,” Matthew Stephenson, professor of law, Harvard Law School Academy section of this report Discussants: David Baron, Donald P. Jacobs Visiting Professor of Research, Kellogg School DEMOGRAPHY AND SECURITY: THE POLITICS OF of Management, Northwestern University; POPULATION CHANGE David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of MAY 1–2, 2009 Political Economy and Strategy, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford Recently, two past presidents of the American University; and David Austen-Smith, Peter G. Peterson Professor of Corporate Ethics; chair, Political Science Association, Robert Putnam Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, and M. Kent Jennings, pointed to rapid Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern demographic change as one of the most University predictable future trends, yet one least studied BOOK-MANUSCRIPT CONFERENCE: by political scientists. One could add that GENDERING THE VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM demographers and other social scientists seem to exist in parallel disciplinary universes. At DECEMBER 11, 2008 the same time, those working in international Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism by relations or comparative politics repeatedly Margarita Estévez-Abe explains crossnational encounter issues of political demography, yet differences in female employment patterns in have no forum for sharing common ideas. advanced industrial societies—i.e., Western An important goal of this conference was to European countries, Japan, Australia, Canada, initiate a conversation between social scientists New Zealand, and the United States. While —especially political scientists—and their most political scientists focus on the degree counterparts in demography. It was hoped that of “women-friendliness” of social policies to the conference would crystallize and systematize predict cross-national variations in female the disparate insights which have hitherto employment rates, Gendering the Varieties of floated quite loosely within demography and Capitalism focuses on labor market institutions political science and produce a book that will as independent variables. The book argues stand as a benchmark, mainstreaming the field that vocational training systems, employment of political demography within political science, protection regulation, and wage bargaining edited by Jack Goldstone, Monica Duffy Toft systems possess previously overlooked and Eric Kaufmann. consequences for women. Many scholars have praised countries with strong traditions of At the conference, leading demographers vocational training, employment protection, and political scientists spoke about particular and collective wage bargaining for minimizing aspects of demography and security. The inequality. What this book demonstrates, conference built upon a previous conference however, is that these same institutions have of some seventy paper-givers at the London

CONFERENCES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 19 School of Economics in 2006, organized by Eric “The Youth Bulge Effect: Does a Large Proportion Kaufmann, a current fellow at the Initiative on of Young Adults Deter the Rise of Liberal Democracy?,” Richard Cincotta, consulting Religion in International Affairs at the Belfer demographer, Long Range Analysis Unit, Center, at which Monica Duffy Toft delivered a National Intelligence Council, Washington, DC keynote address. “Age Structure and Development: Global and National Analysis through a Policy Lens,” FRIDAY, MAY 1 Elizabeth Leahy, research associate, Population Session 1 Action International, Washington, DC Session 6 Overview of volume and objectives of conference, Eric Kaufmann, reader in politics and Chair: Jack Goldstone sociology, Birkbeck College, University of “Demographic Dis/Equilibrium: Conditions of London, United Kingdom; and Monica Duffy Institutional Bargains in Nationalist Conflicts,” Toft, associate professor of public policy, Christian Leuprecht, assistant professor, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University Department of Political Science, Royal Military Discussant: Jack Goldstone, Hazel Professor; College of Canada director, Center for Global Policy, George “‘Go Forth and Multiply’: The Politics of Religious Mason University Demography,” Eric Kaufmann; and Vegard Session 2 Skirbekk, research scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Chair: Monica Duffy Toft Austria “Demographic Change and Conflict in WHITHER NATIONAL MYTHS? REFLECTIONS ON THE Contemporary Africa,” Elliot Green, LSE fellow, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF NATIONAL MYTHS Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics MAY 6–8, 2009 “The Devil in the Demography? Religion, Identity and War in Côte d’Ivoire,” Ragnhild Nordas, For details about this conference, see the Canada PhD candidate, political science, Norwegian Program section of this report University of Science and Technology SATURDAY, MAY 2 THE POLITICS OF NON-STATE SOCIAL WELFARE PROVISION Session 3 MAY 8–9, 2009 Chair: Eric Kaufmann “America’s Golden Years? US Security in an For details about this conference, see the Harvard Aging World,” Mark Haas, assistant professor of Academy for International and Area Studies political science, Duquesne University section of this report “A New Framework for Aging and Security: Lessons from Power Transition Theory,” Jennifer RISING POWERS AMIDST INTERNATIONAL Sciubba, Mellon Environmental Fellow, TURMOIL: THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE Department of International Studies, Rhodes FACING CHINA AND RUSSIA College JUNE 12–14, 2009 Session 4 Chair: Jack Goldstone The Weatherhead Center organizes an annual “Youth Bulges and Violence,” Henrik Urdal, gathering of international participants in researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War, Talloires, France, to address current issues International Peace Research Institute, Oslo in international affairs. Our 2009 Talloires (PRIO), Norway Conference took place after the international “Wombfare: The Religious and Political financial and economic crisis of 2008, which Dimensions of Fertility and Demographic Change,” affected not only the world economy but also Monica Duffy Toft the structure and power distribution of world Session 5 politics. In Europe the events around Georgia Chair: Monica Duffy Toft and subsequent Russian behavior had raised fundamental questions about the future of the West’s relationship with Russia. The arrival of economic studies, Institut français des relations the Obama administration was seen as likely internationales (IFRI) to redefine important elements of the agenda SATURDAY, JUNE 13 of world politics. By focusing on China and Session II: The United States and Europe Facing China Russia, the conference examined two very different cases of “rising powers,” the basis of • What are the essentials of US strategy towards China? their external posture and their dependence on the international environment, as well as their • How has the European Union, as well as Britain, France, and Germany, dealt with capacity to be stakeholders of a minimum of China? order in their regions and in the international • How can China be induced to act like a system. At the same time, our discussions stakeholder? assessed the specific policies that the United Chair: May-Britt Stumbaum, Fritz Thyssen States and Europe should pursue in order to Fellow, Program on Transatlantic Relations; deal with the challenges at hand. resident fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations Planning Committee: Steven Bloomfield, James Moran, director, Asia, External Relations executive director, Weatherhead Center; Karl Directorate-General, European Commission; Kaiser, director, Program on Transatlantic Dennis C. Wilder, visiting fellow, John L. Relations; adjunct professor of public policy, Thornton China Center, The Brookings Harvard Kennedy School; and Beth A. Institution; and Sebastian Wood, director, Asia Simmons, Center Director, Faculty Associate, Pacific, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Weatherhead Center; Clarence Dillon Professor the United Kingdom of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University Session III: Rising Russia • How do energy wealth and economic wealth FRIDAY, JUNE 12 relate to Russia’s social decline? Welcome • What are the internal drivers of Russia’s external policies? Beth A. Simmons • What does the Georgia crisis reveal about Session I: Rising China Russia? • What are the internal drivers of China’s Chair: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna external policies? Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government; director, • How has China dealt with the recent international economic and financial crises? Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University • What is China’s awareness of global interdependence, and what is China’s Konstantin Sonin, SUEK Professor, The New potential as a “stakeholder”? Economic School (NES), Russia; and Angela Stent, professor of government and foreign Chair: Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James service; director, Center for Eurasian, Russian Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China and East European Studies, Georgetown in World Affairs, Department of Government, University Harvard University Qin Yaqing, vice president and professor, Foreign Session IV: Toward Re-launching US and Affairs University, China; Minxin Pei, senior European Policy on Russia associate, China Program, Carnegie Endowment • What are the central elements of past US for International Peace; and Elizabeth Perry, policies such as arms control, relations Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, with Georgia and with Iran, and NATO Department of Government; director, Harvard- enlargement? Yenching Institute, Harvard University • What is the significance of Europe’s internal divisions on Russia? Keynote Dinner Address • What should America’s and Europe’s policies Chair: Pierre Keller, former senior partner, be toward Russia? Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie Chair: Richard Miles, former US ambassador “The United States and Europe: How Have to Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, and Georgia; chief of They Managed the International Economic mission in Serbia-Montenegro; charge d’Affaires and Financial Crisis?,” Jacques Mistral, head of a.i. in Turkmenistan

CONFERENCES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 21 Rawi Abdelal, professor of business welfare states, varieties of capitalism and modes administration, business, government, and of policy-making constructed? What factors the international economy unit, Harvard drive their development? When institutions are Business School; and Sergei Karaganov, socially-embedded, how does the ‘social’ inflect chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia the directions taken by institutional change and the results of such changes? Keynote Dinner Address Chair: Beth A. Simmons These are not new issues. The economic and political events of the 1930s posed similar “The Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration: A First Assessment,” Steven challenges to capitalist democracies. In the Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of decades since World War II, successive waves International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of international economic integration have SUNDAY, JUNE 14 inspired responses from states and markets. However, those responses have varied over time Session V: The Consequent Changing and across countries. That variation and the Structures of World Politics experience of previous efforts to readjust the • What is the impact of these rising powers? balance between state and market, in a wide • What are the consequences of the range of spheres of policy making, provide cases international financial and economic crisis? in which these issues can be examined. • What changes should the United States and Europe seek on the distribution of power and The object of this workshop is to bring together on international norms and institutions? scholars from multiple generations studying Chair: Sir Michael Palliser, former head of the such issues from a range of perspectives, British Diplomatic Service, United Kingdom running from economics through political Steven Walt; Richard Cooper, Maurits C. science to sociology, to exchange views and Boas Professor of International Economics, explore alternative analytical frameworks for Department of Economics, Harvard University; understanding how governments respond and James Davis, professor of political science; to social and economic challenges, how the director, Institute of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland institutions that regulate social and economic relations shift over time, and how the Closing remarks: circumstances of specific nations or regions Karl Kaiser and Steven Bloomfield mediate such developments.

ADJUSTING TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES: Co-Chairs: Frank Dobbin, Faculty Associate; RECONSIDERING THE ROLES OF STATE AND MARKET professor of sociology, Department of Sociology, JULY 24–26, 2009 Harvard University; and Peter A. Hall, Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate; Krupp Global economic recession is calling once Foundation Professor of European Studies, again into question the capacities of states and Department of Government, Harvard University markets to manage the allocation of resources FRIDAY, JULY 24 and the endeavors of people in terms that Welcome secure overall prosperity as well as a just distribution of economic well-being. It raises Frank Dobbin and Peter A. Hall issues about the appropriate role of the state Session 1: The Origins and Reforms of Economic in market economies and the social as well as and Political Institutions political underpinnings required for policy- Chair: Peter A. Hall making to be effective. “Dualism and Political Coalitions: Inclusionary As familiar institutions come under new Versus Exclusionary Reforms in an Age of Rising Inequality,” Torben Iversen, Harold challenges and are in many cases again in flux, Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political the current conjuncture also raises questions Economy, Department of Government, Harvard about how effective institutions and regulatory University regimes are constructed. How are distinctive “Gonna Party Like It’s 1899: Electoral Systems Britain,” Thibault Bossy, doctoral candidate, and the Origins of Varieties of Coordination,” Centre for Political Research, Sciences Po, Paris Cathie Jo Martin, professor of political science, Discussant: Bruce Carruthers, professor, Boston University Department of Sociology, Northwestern Discussant: Daniel Ziblatt, Paul Sack Associate University Professor of Political Economy, Department of Government, Harvard University SATURDAY, JULY 25 Session 2: The Reform Process in the Political Session 1: How States and Markets Cope with Economies of the Developed Democracies International Integration Chair: Wolfgang Streeck, professor and Chair: Frank Dobbin managing director, Max Planck Institute for the “Regionalization and Retrenchment: The Study of Societies, Germany Impact of European Integration on the Welfare “Political Salience and Business Power,” Pepper State,” Jason Beckfield, assistant professor of Culpepper, associate professor of public policy, sociology; director, undergraduate studies, Harvard Kennedy School Department of Sociology, Harvard University “Adjusting to Economic and Social Challenges: “The Rubik’s Cube State: A Re-Conceptualization The End of the New Labour Project?,” Patrick of Political Change in Contemporary China,” Bai LeGalès, research director, Centre for Political Gao, professor, Department of Sociology, Duke Research Sciences Po, Paris University Discussant: Monica Prasad, assistant professor, Discussant: Mark Ebers, professor of business Department of Sociology, Northwestern administration, corporate development and University organization, University of Cologne Session 3: Changes at Work Session 2: Labor and Business Chair: Patrick LeGalès Chair: Jens Beckert, professor; director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, “Managerial Diversity and Organizational Germany Survival: Determinants of Plant Closings in US Corporations, 1983–2002,” Soohan Kim, “Transnational Union Alliances: Why Some doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Succeed,” Marissa Brookes, doctoral candidate, Harvard University Department of Political Science, Northwestern University “The Political Economy of Working Time: Preferences and Constraints,” Lucy Barnes, “The Evolution of Russian Business Associations: doctoral candidate, Department of Government, Macro-Determinants and Micro-Strategies,” Harvard University Masha Hedberg, doctoral candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University “Ideas as Motivators and Resources for Political Action in the Case of Early Prussian Child Labor “Transnational Labour Standards and Social Reform, 1817–1839,” Elisabeth Anderson, Movements: Athletic Footwear and Toys,” doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Sabrina Zajak, doctoral candidate, Institution Northwestern University Building Across Borders, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany Discussant: Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Disussant: Jonah Levy, associate professor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology political science, University of California at Berkely Session 4: Public Policy and Private Action Session 3: What We Know and Do Not Know about Chair: Monica Prasad How Institutions Change

“A Market for Hope: Why We Play the Lottery,” Chair: Pepper Culpepper Mark Lutter, doctoral candidate, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany “Neoliberalism in Crisis: Institutional Roots of the US Financial Meltdown,” John Campbell, “From State Capitalism to Shareholder professor of sociology, Dartmouth College Capitalism? Shareholder-Oriented Corporate Governance Reform and the Performance “Dealing with Failure: Why Corporate of Large Chinese Corporations,” Dian Yang, Bankruptcy is Not Like Death,” Bruce doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Carruthers, professor, Department of Harvard University Sociology, Northwestern University “The Politics and Policy of Obesity in France and Discussant: Jens Beckert

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Chair: John Campbell “Subcultures of Bureaucracy: Sub-State Variation in (Weberian) Bureaucratic Quality,” Erin McDonnell, doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University “Can the French Government Create Industrial Clusters? The Oligopolistic Structure of the Ile- de-France Region’s “Pôle de compétitivité” as a Local Response to the Policy,” Dima Younès, doctoral candidate, Centre de Sociologie des Organizations, Sciences-Po, Paris “How Moral Arguments Shape the Definition and Pursuit of Economic Interests,” Martin Schroeder, doctoral candidate, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany “The Political Economy of Forest Policy in Cameroon, Indonesia and Brazil,” Benjamin Singer, doctoral candidate, Sciences Po, Paris Discussant: Pierre Francois, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Research Fellow, Sciences Po, Paris SUNDAY, JULY 26 Session 1: Institutions and Reform

Chair: Suzanne Berger “Flexible Employment, Flexible Families, and the Socialization of Reproduction,” Wolfgang Streeck Session 2: Panel Discussion

“When are States and Markets Effective at Managing Social Change?” Chair: Frank Dobbin Suzanne Berger, Wolfgang Streeck, Jonah Levy, Peter A. Hall, and Pierre Francois RESEARCH SEMINARS

OPEN SEMINARS CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES AFRICA RESEARCH SEMINAR Challenges of the Twenty-First Century is a The Africa Research Seminar, co-sponsored by seminar series that brings high-ranking officials the Committee on African Studies, examines from the European Commission and other economic and political development in sub- prominent Europeans to Harvard to discuss Saharan Africa with a focus on the post- issues of concern for the future of the European independence period. The seminar invites Union and transatlantic relations. Since its scholars from education and the social sciences inception in 1996, the series has examined disciplines to present ongoing research three to topics such as common foreign and security four times a semester, with a general discussion policy, the European Monetary Union, the following the presentation. The seminars are many issues related to EU enlargement, the free and open to the public. state of transatlantic relations, and trade and Co-Chairs: Nahomi Ichino, Faculty Associate; competition strategy. assistant professor of government, Department of Government, Harvard University; and Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Matthew Jukes, assistant professor of education, for European Studies, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University Harvard Graduate School of Education Speakers: Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, chairman, September 25, 2008 Commission of Foreign Relations of the European Parliament; Jean-Claude Trichet, “Dala and Diaspora: Reading Obama’s Rise” president, European Central Bank; Gérard Katherine A. Luongo, assistant professor of Mortier, director, Opéra National de Paris; history, Northeastern University general manager and artistic director, New York October 30, 2008 City Opera (effective September 2009); and Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for “Does the Leader’s Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Energy, European Union Favoritism, Education, and Health in Sub- Saharan Africa” Visitors: José Manuel Barroso, president, Ilia Rainer, assistant professor of economics, European Commission; Alain Lamassoure, George Mason University member, European Parliament; member, European People’s Party (EEP) Bureau; and November 13, 2008 Robert Kagan, author, The Return of History “Doing Bad by Doing Good? Institutional Design and the End of Dreams and the Abuse of Microfinance Borrowers in Organizer: Renée Haferkamp, affiliate, Minda Uganda” de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; Catherine Duggan, assistant professor, Harvard former director general, European Commission Business School October 28, 2008 March 13, 2009 “Is There Still a Role for Europe in the Twenty- “Race, Risk, and Policy Preferences: How South First Century?” African Councilors Understand the Threat of Alain Lamassoure Infections Disease” Evan Lieberman, associate professor of politics, November 6, 2008 Princeton University “Challenges Surrounding Public Health” March 19, 2009 Androulla Vassiliou, commissioner for health, European Union “Why We Need to Rethink Gender and Education in Southern Africa” CONVERSATIONS ACROSS BORDERS: Nancy Kendall, assistant professor of A TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES INITIATIVE SEMINAR educational policy studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison Transnationalism is the subject of a growing but fragmented body of scholarship. The researchers who study businesses, social

CONFERENCES • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 25 movements, NGOs, artistic production, families INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES or religions that cross borders rarely see themselves as part of the same conversation. This new seminar functions as a forum for Yet, we are convinced that to understand lectures and intellectual exchanges on cultural contemporary social life we must explore politics across disciplines and national or the connections between different types of historical boundaries. The main focus of the transnational dynamics and with the “non- seminar is on European cultural politics in transnational” phenomena. It is necessary the era of globalization. Synchronic as well to analyze how transnational practices and as diachronic explorations of current debates processes in different domains relate to and on the tensions between hegemonizing and inform one another. marginal, local, or minor cultural discourses are presented and commented upon by This seminar, organized by the Transnational policy makers and scholars in a variety of Studies Initiative, attempts to bridge these gaps fields including: critical theory, philosophy, by fostering conversations about a variety of anthropology, political science, history, and law. topics, from a variety of disciplines, around Co-Chairs: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, visiting the world. The goal is to identify the common associate professor of the classics, Harvard themes, structures, ideas, and institutions that University; associate professor of the classics, characterize transnational social dynamics and The Johns Hopkins University. Panagiotis processes in different arenas, and to understand Roilos, Faculty Associate; professor of modern how we must rethink conventional notions Greek studies and of comparative literature, about identity, citizenship, community, and Department of the Classics; director, Modern Greek Studies Program, Harvard University society in response. Faculty from Harvard, as well as other Boston-area institutions, and November 24, 2008 graduate students are invited to present their “Believing in the World: Cavell and Deleuze on ongoing research. Two outside speakers per Cinema and Modernity” year are invited as well. The goal is to create a Paola Marrati, professor, Humanities Center, supportive learning community and to build a The Johns Hopkins University network of scholars working on these issues. December 9, 2008

Co-Chairs: Tamara Kay, Faculty Associate “Major Powers and Minor Literatures: The (on leave 2008–2009); assistant professor of Cultural Politics of World Literature” sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard David Damrosch, professor of English and University. Peggy Levitt, Associate; associate comparative literature, Columbia University; professor of sociology; chair, Department of visiting professor of comparative literature, Sociology, Wellesley College Harvard University October 1, 2008 February 18, 2009 “Big Bird Goes to China: Globalization, Culture, “Raising the ‘Barre’ in the Non-Profit Sector: and the Politics of Transnational Collaborations Branding Through the Arts” Among Economic Development Organizations” Michèle Stanners, Fellow; president, Michèle Tamara Kay Stanners and Associates. Thor Steingraber, fellow, Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations October 21, 2008 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR “Marry into a Good Family: Transnational Status and Reproduction in the Bangladeshi Diaspora” Nazli Kibria, associate professor of sociology, This year-long course (Economics 2390d) is Boston University offered to graduate students for academic credit. The students and faculty leading the workshop December 4, 2008 meet weekly to discuss papers on international “Hi-Tech Revisited: The New Indian Middle Class” economics, development, and economic Smitha Radhakrishnan, assistant professor of relations between the industrialized and less sociology, Wellesley College industrialized countries. Faculty participants are CULTURAL POLITICS: drawn from the Department of Economics and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, as well as other departments and schools of Department of Economics, Harvard University the University. The workshop also invites October 28, 2008 economists from other universities and research institutions to present their work. The papers “Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation” presented are always available before each talk Dean Karlan, professor of economics, Yale and are posted on the course’s website. University Co-Chairs: Michael Kremer, Faculty Associate; November 4, 2008 Gates Professor of Developing Societies, “Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Harvard University. Lakshimi Iyer, Faculty Poverty” Associate; assistant professor, Business, Omer Moav, professor, Department of Government and the International Economy Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London Unit, Harvard Business School November 18, 2008 September 16, 2008 “A Structural Evaluation of a Large Scale Quasi- “The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Experimental Microfinance Initiative” Economic Lives of the Poor” Joseph Kaboski, associate professor, Economics Sendhil Mullainathan, professor of economics, Department, Ohio State University Harvard University November 25, 2008 September 23, 2008 “Trade Liberalization and Organizational “A Field Manual For The Cradle of Civilization- Change” Theory of Leadership and Lessons of Iraq” Andrew Newman, professor of economics, Roger B. Myerson, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Boston University; research fellow, Centre for Service Professor in Economics and the College, Economic Policy Research, United Kingdom University of Chicago; 2007 Nobel Memorial December 2, 2008 Prize-winner in Economic Sciences “Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil” September 30, 2008 Eliana La Ferrara, professor of economics, “Information and Incentives Inside the Firm: Bocconi University, Italy Evidence from Loan Officer Rotation” December 9, 2008 Daniel Paravisini, assistant professor of finance, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia “Menstruation and Education in Nepal, with University Graduate School of Business Emily Oster” Rebecca Thornton, assistant professor of October 7, 2008 economics, University of Michigan “Filtered Social Learning” February 4, 2009 Paul Niehaus, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University “The Effect of Household Appliances on Female Labor Fource Participation: Evidence from Micro October 8, 2008 Data” Alexis Leon, assistant professor of economics, “Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia” University of Pittsburgh Oeindrila Dube, PhD candidate, Department February 11, 2009 of Economics, Harvard University “The Impact of Potatoes on World Population October 14, 2008 and Urbanization: A Historic Natural Experiment” “Incentives to Create or Relocate? Firm Investment Nancy Qian, assistant professor of economics, and Credit Policies in an Emerging Market” Brown University Daniel Carvalho, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University February 18, 2009 October 21, 2008 “Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena” “The Bitter-Sweet Nature of Political Daniele Passerman, associate professor, Connections: Evidence from Sugar Mills in India” Department of Economics, Boston University Sandip Sukhtankar, PhD candidate, February 25, 2009 “The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste,

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 27 Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local University Governments” Mark Rosenzweig, Frank Altschul Professor of May 13, 2009 International Economics; director, Economic “Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Close the Growth Center, Yale University Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Bold Social Experiment in Harlem” March 4, 2009 Roland Fryer, professor of economics, Harvard “Paying for Performance: The Education Impacts University of a Community College Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents” ECONOMIC HISTORY WORKSHOP Lisa Barrow, senior economist, Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago The Economic History Workshop (Economics 2339), is an interdisciplinary offering of March 11, 2009 Harvard’s Department of Economics and is open “Changing Households Investments and to the public. In continuous operation for over 40 Aspirations Through Social Interactions: Evidence years, the workshop has become an exceptionally From a Randomized Experiment” Karen Macours, associate professor of important forum for economic historians in the international economics, the Johns Hopkins greater Boston area, serving as a lively and deeply University informative seminar for those interested in March 18, 2009 long-term economic change, economic growth, and development. Papers are made available “Superstar Extinction” for participants before each meeting on the Pierre Azoulay, associate professor, Sloan workshop’s website. As in the past, the workshop School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; faculty research fellow, National recruited the best and the brightest to expose Bureau of Economic Research their new papers to the group.

April 1, 2009 Co-Chairs: Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee “Preferences: Survey and Experimental Evidence” Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Duncan Thomas, professor of economics, Duke James A. Robinson, Faculty Associate; University Harvard Academy Senior Scholar; professor of government, Harvard University. Eric Chaney, April 8, 2009 assistant professor, Department of Economics, “Topic to be announced” Harvard University. Stanley Engerman, John Kerwin Charles, The Steans Professor, Irving B. H. Munro Professor of Economics; professor Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; of History, University of Rochester; visiting Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished professor, Department of Economics, Harvard Service Professor, University of Chicago University (spring 2009)

April 15, 2009 September 25, 2008 “The Impacts of International Migration on Political Economy of Religion Seminar Series Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program” “The Price of Love: Marriage Markets and David McKenzie, senior economist, Intergenerational Transfers in Comparative Development Research Group, Finance and Perspective” Private Sector Development Unit, World Bank Maristella Botticini, associate professor of April 29, 2009 economics, Boston University “Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A September 26, 2008 Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form “Skill-Biased Financial Development” Methods” Thomas Philippon, assistant professor of Raj Chetty, professor, Department of finance, Columbia University Economics, Harvard University October 3, 2008 May 6, 2009 “Using a New Enterprise Form: The German “Modeling the Evolution of Age and Cohort GmbH, 1892–1914” Effects in Social Research” Timothy Guinnane, Philip Golden Bartlett Sam Shulhofer-Wohl, assistant professor of economics and public affairs, Princeton Professor of Economic History, Yale University Richard Hornbeck, graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 17, 2008 February 13, 2009 “The Great American Real Estate Bubble of the 1920s: Causes and Consequences” “Land, Labor, and Colonization” Eugene White, professor of economics, Rutgers Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of University Economics, Rochester University October 31, 2008 February 20, 2009 “Uncertainty and Innovation at the Time of the “Capital Constraints and European Migration to Great Depression” Canada in the 1920s” Tom Nicholas, associate professor, Harvard Frank Lewis, professor of economics, Queen’s Business School. Malhar Nabar, assistant University, Canada professor, Department of Economics, Wellesley College February 27, 2009 November 7, 2008 “Positive Selection during the Age of Mass Migration: Evidence from Norway” “Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Leah Boustan, assistant professor of economics, Assortative Matching” University of California at Los Angeles Adeline Delavande, faculdade de economia, New University of Lisbon. Luis I. Vasconcelos, March 13, 2009 faculdade de economia, New University of “Lessons from the Ottoman Harem: On Ethnicity, Lisbon Religion, and War” Murat Iyigun, associate professor of economics, November 14, 2008 University of Colorado at Boulder “Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate April 10, 2009 Sectors” “Are There Increasing Returns in Marriage Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Markets?” Economics, Harvard University Maristella Botticini, professor of economics, November 21, 2008 Collegio Carlo Alberto and Università di Torino Fellow “Social Mobility Within and Across Generations in Britain Since 1851” April 17, 2009 Jason Long, assistant professor of economics, “Consumption, Social Capital, and the Colby College ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany” December 12, 2008 Sheilagh Ogilvie, professor of economic “The Impact of Potatoes on Population Growth history, University of Cambridge and Urbanization after Columbus: A Historic Natural Experiment” April 24, 2009 Nathan Nunn, assistant professor of economics, “Does Military Experience Produce Better Harvard University. Nancy Qian, Academy CEOs?” Scholar, Harvard Academy of International and Effi Benmelech, assistant professor of Area Studies; assistant professor of development economics, Harvard University. Carola economics, Department of Economics, Brown Frydman, assistant professor of finance, Sloan University School of Management, Massachusetts Institute January 30, 2009 of Technology “Coercion, Conflict, and Constraints to the May 1, 2009 Emergence of Public Schooling: Evidence from the “Why Was It that Europeans Conquered the Nineteenth-Century Coffee Boom” World?” Gustavo Bobonis, assistant professor of Phil Hoffman, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline economics, University of Toronto Professor of Business Economics; professor of February 6, 2009 history, California Institute of Technology “Quantifying Long-term Adjustment to STUDY GROUP ON THE FUTURE OF Environmental Change: Evidence from the THE EUROPEAN UNION American Dust Bowl” The Program on Transatlantic Relations has

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 29 established the Study Group on the Future Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, of the European Union in cooperation with Boston University the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European May 6, 2009 Studies. The study group provides a forum “The Future of the EURO” for the scholars of the greater Boston area Jeffry A. Frieden, faculty associate, Stanfield interested in the European Union to discuss Professor of International Peace, Department ongoing research, to provide a platform for of Government, Harvard University. Andrew outside experts to present papers on related Martin, research affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg topics, and to analyze ongoing developments in Center for European Studies, Harvard the European Union. University HERBERT C. KELMAN SEMINAR ON Chair: Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor THE INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS of European Integration, Boston University AND RESOLUTION Deputy Chair: Karl Kaiser, director, Program on Transatlantic Relations; Adjunct Professor of The 2008–2009 seminar focuses on exploring Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School the relationship among government, news October 20, 2008 media, and the conflict resolution community in framing and responding to conflict. The “Georgia on My Mind: Can the European Union theme of the seminar this year is, “Anticipating Cope?” Jacques Rupnik, fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Change: Resolving Conflict in the New Era.” Center for European Studies, Harvard The seminar considers ways to strengthen the University; director of research, CNRS Paris. capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform Jolyon Howorth, professor of international both domestic and international conflicts. relations, Yale University This series has been planned in collaboration February 17, 2009 with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, ‘Rethinking the Legitimacy of Multi-level the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law Governance in the EU” School, the Shorenstein Center for the Press Christopher Bickerton, lecturer in and Public Policy, the Harvard-MIT Dispute international relations, Oxford University Resolution Program, and the Boston area Supported by the Nicolas Janssen Family Fund members of the Alliance for Peacebuilding . of Brussels They are open to the public and are attended by Weatherhead Center Fellows, visiting scholars, March 17, 2009 practitioners, students from Harvard and other “Democratic Deficits in the EU: West vs. East” local universities, and the interested public. David Cameron, professor of political science, Chair: Donna Hicks, Associate director, Yale Program in European Union Studies, Yale University September 30, 2008 Supported by the Nicolas Janssen Family Fund “Uncommon Images: The War You Haven’t Seen” of Brussels Kael Alford, freelance photojournalist; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University. Guy Raz, defense March 31, 2009 correspondent, National Public Radio; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University “Can the EU Build Political Identity and Legitimacy?” October 21, 2008 Furio Cerutti, professor of political philosophy, University of Florence; co-editor, The Search “Enlightening the Voters: A Report Card on the for a European Identity: Values, Policies and New Media” Legitimacy of the European Union. Sonia Tom Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Lucarelli, senior researcher and lecturer, Government and the Press, Shorenstein Center, University of Bologna; co-editor, The Search Harvard Kennedy School. Maralee Schwartz, for a European Identity: Values, Policies and Visiting Murrow Lecturer in the Practice of Legitimacy of the European Union Press and Politics, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School Discussants: Jean Leca, emeritus professor of politics, Sciences Po, Paris. Vivien Schmidt, November 18, 2008 “Post-election Message to the World: What’s the students from Harvard Business School, but New Agenda?” all Weatherhead Center affiliates and other Nicholas Burns, professor of the practice of members of the community are welcome diplomacy and international politics, Belfer to attend. The seminar meets seven to ten Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Maleeha Lodhi, times each semester, usually on Thursdays fellow, Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy from 12:00–1:00 p.m. In 2008–2009, guest School speakers included Lakshmi Iyer, Fabrizio December 9, 2008 Ferri, and Ramana Nanda of Harvard Business School, Carsten Burhop of Yale “Rethinking the Conflicts in the Middle East: Can University, Myles Shaver of the University the New US Administration Play a Constructive Role?” of Minnesota, Caroline Fohlin of the Johns Herbert C. Kelman, Faculty Associate Hopkins University, and Elena Obukhova of (emeritus); Richard Clarke Cabot Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. of Social Ethics, emeritus, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Scheherezade Chair: Jordan Siegel, Faculty Associate; Faramarzi, reporter, Associated Press in associate professor of business administration, Lebanon; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School February 3, 2009 October 2, 2008 “How to Advance the US-Muslim Dialogue” “Policy Risk, Political Capabilities, and Hannah Allam, Cairo bureau chief, McClatchy International Investment Strategy: Evidence from Newspapers; Nieman Fellow, Harvard the Global Electric Power Industry” University. Paula Gutlove, deputy director, Bennet Zelner, assistant professor of strategy at Insititute for Resource and Security Studies. Fuqua School of Business, Duke University David Fairman, managing director, Consensus February 12, 2009 Building Institute “Property Rights and Household Decisions: the March 17, 2009 Impact of China’s Urban Housing Reforms” “George Mitchell: Implications of Northern Lakshmi Iyer, Faculty Associate; assistant Ireland for the Middle East” professor, Business, Government and the Jim Sebenius, Gordon Donaldson Professor International Economy Unit, Harvard Business of Business Administration, Harvard Business School School; director, Harvard Negotiation Project, February 26, 2009 Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School. Charles Sennott, executive editor and vice “Say On Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: president, GlobalPost Evidence from the UK” Fabrizio Ferri, assistant professor of business April 7, 2009 administration, Harvard Business School “The Role of Grassroots Leadership in the March 5, 2009 Obama Era” Marshall Ganz, lecturer in public policy, “Finance and the Diffusion of New Technologies” Harvard Kennedy School. James O’Shea, fellow, Ramana Nanda, assistant professor of business John Shorenstein Center; vice president, Los administration, Harvard Business School; Angeles Times Diego Comin, associate professor of business administration, Harvard Business School May 5, 2009 March 19, 2009 “What Worked in Iraq Won’t Help Afghanistan” Rory Stewart, Ryan Family Professor of the “Incentive and Innovation? R&D Management Practice of Human Rights; director, Carr Center in Germany’s High-Tech Industries During the for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University Second Industrial Revolution” Carsten Burhop, visiting academic, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Department of Economics, Yale University INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR April 2, 2009 The HBS International Seminar brings together “The Benefits of Geographic Sales Diversification: scholars from a variety of disciplines to talk How Exporting Facilitates Capital Investment” about research on international business. Myles Shaver, professor of strategic management and organization, Carlson School Participants include faculty and graduate

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 31 of Management, University of Minnesota Ana Fostel, assistant professor of economics and international Affairs, George Washington April 16, 2009 University “Financial System Design and Industrial October 1, 2008 Development: International Patterns in Historical Perspective” “Inequality and Prices: Does China Benefit the Caroline Fohlin, research professor of Poor in America?” economics, the Johns Hopkins University John Romalis, associate professor of economics, University of Chicago Business School May 20, 2009 October 6, 2008 “Does Brain Circulation Promote International Development? High-Skilled Migration and “Industrial Structure and Financial Capital Organizational Performance” Flows” Elena Obukhova, assistant professor of global Keyu Jin, PhD candidate, Department of economics and management, Sloan School Economics, Harvard University of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 22, 2008 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP “Country Size, Currency Unions, and International Asset Returns” Tarek Hassan, PhD candidate, Department of The International Economics Workshop Economics, Harvard University (Economics 2540) covers a broad spectrum of recent theoretical and empirical research October 29, 2008 on international trade, capital markets, and “Inequality and Unemployment in the Global monetary arrangements. Examples of recent Economy” topics include the political economy of trade and Oleg Itskhoki, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University income distribution, global financial adjustment, the international organization of production, and November 5, 2008 the effect of trade on growth and welfare. The “Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the International Economics Workshop meets once Microscope” a week during the fall and spring semesters and Helene Rey, chaired professor of economics, is well-attended by graduate students and faculty, London Business School mostly from the Department of Economics and November 26, 2008 Harvard Kennedy School. “Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy” Co-Chairs: Pol Antràs, Faculty Associate (on Oleg Itskhoki, PhD candidate, Department of leave 2008–2009); Professor of Economics, Economics, Harvard University Department of Economics, Harvard University; December 3, 2008 Richard N. Cooper, Faculty Associate; Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, “Learning the Wealth of Nations” Harvard University; Gita Gopinath, Faculty Francisco Buera, assistant professor of Associate (on leave fall 2008); assistant economics, Northwestern University professor of economics, Harvard University; December 10, 2008 Elhanan Helpman, Faculty Associate; Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, “Trade-Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Department of Economics, Harvard University; Chinese Imports on IT and Innovation” Kenneth Rogoff, Faculty Associate; Thomas D. John Van Reenen, professor of economics, Cabot Professor of Public Policy; professor of London School of Economics economics, Harvard University February 11, 2009 September 17, 2008 “When Bonds Matter: Home Bias in Goods and “An Elementary Theory of Comparative Assets” Advantage.” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, associate professor Arnaud Costinot, assistant professor of of economics, University of California at economics, University of Massachusetts Berkeley September 24, 2008 February 18, 2009 “Leverage Cycles and the Anxious Economy” “Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes” Julien Prat, assistant professor of economics, Co-Chairs: David Armitage, Faculty Associate; University of Vienna Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; Alison Frank, Faculty March 4, 2009 Associate; associate professor of history, “Endogenous Productivity Differences and Harvard University Patterns of International Capital Flows” September 24, 2008 Kiminori Matsuyama, professor of economics, Northwestern University; visiting professor, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1948–2008: A 60th Anniversary Roundtable” Gary J. Bass, associate professor of politics, March 11, 2009 Princeton University. Caroline M. Elkins, “A Solution to the Default Risk-Business Cycle Faculty Associate; Hugo K. Foster Associate Disconnect” Professor of African Studies, Department of Vivian Z. Yue, assistant professor of economics, History, Harvard University. Noah Feldman, New York University Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School. Ernest R. May, Faculty Associate March 18, 2009 (on leave spring 2009); Charles Warren “Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Professor of American History, Department of Product Growth: Evidence from India” History, and Harvard Kennedy School Amit Khandelwal, assistant professor of October 22, 2008 economics and finance, Columbia Graduate School of Business “Continental Empires: The United States and Russia” Jane Burbank, professor of history, New York April 1, 2009 University. Frederick Cooper, professor of “Elasticity Optimism” history, New York University Jean Imbs, professor, University of Lausanne November 19, 2008 School of Business “The End of the Postwar, 1964–1989” April 8, 2009 William C. Kirby, director, Fairbank Center “International Business Cycles and the Labor for Chinese Studies; T. M. Chang Professor of Wedge under Incomplete Asset Markets” China Studies Harvard University; Spangler Loukas Karabarbounis, PhD candidate, Family Professor of Business Administration, Department of Economics, Harvard University Harvard Business School. Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, April 15, 2009 Department of History, Harvard University “Non-Homotheticity and Bilateral Trade: December 3, 2008 Evidence from a Quantitative Explanation” Ana Cecilia Fieler, assistant professor of “History’s Illegibles: States, International economics, University of Pennsylvania Agencies, and the Indeterminacy of Identity in Venezia Giulia” April 29, 2009 Pamela Ballinger, associate professor of “Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and anthropology, Bowdoin College International Reserves” February 4, 2009 Jay C. Shambaugh, associate professor of economics, Dartmouth College “Resurrecting Universal Empire: Spain, Europe and the Americas, 1680–1780” INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SEMINAR William O’Reilly, lecturer in early modern history, University of Cambridge The International History Seminar serves as a forum for lectures and workshops presenting March 11, 2009 cutting-edge work in the fields of international “A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease into and global history. Presenters, who come Cold War History” from both within and outside Harvard, Erez Manela, director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead offer papers that focus on relationships, Center; Dunwalke associate professor of connections, transfers, and movements American history, Department of History, between nations or regions of the world, and Harvard University often employ comparative and/or connective April 8, 2009 analytical frameworks that cross traditional historiographical boundaries. “The Soft Power Complex: A Short Critical History” Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 33 of History, Columbia University Construct for a New National Era” Husam Zomlot, visiting scholar, Center for April 29, 2009 Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; “Non-Violence and the Nation: Gandhian PLO representative to the UK, 2003–2008 Satyagraha and Racial Equality in the United States during the Second World War” October 16, 2008 Nico Slate, Weatherhead Center Dissertation “Power in Imagery: Rethinking Narratives on Fellow; PhD candidate, Department of History, Saudi Arabia” Harvard University Gwenn Okruhlik, visiting scholar, Department MIDDLE EAST SEMINAR of Political Science, Trinity University October 30, 2008 Since its inception in 1975, the Middle East “To Whom Does Iraq Belong? A View from Seminar has focused on the Arab-Israeli Europe” conflict and the Middle East peace process. Gudrun Harrer, senior editor, Der Standard, Other topics have included state formation, the Vienna, Austria; lecturer in modern Arab role of religion in politics, inter-Arab relations, history, Vienna University and Diplomatic Academy; former special envoy to Iraq, internal social and political developments government of Austria in particular countries in the Middle East, and the Middle East policies of the United November 20, 2008 States, the UN, as well as other governments “Prospects for US-Iranian Relations after George and international organizations. The seminar W. Bush” meets every other week for a presentation by Hillary Mann Leverett, chairman, STRATEGA; former director for Iran and Persian Gulf an invited speaker, followed by discussion. affairs, National Security Council Speakers include scholars, diplomats, writers, political figures, and organizational leaders December 4, 2008 from the Middle East, the United States, and “The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Critical Choices for elsewhere, representing a variety of disciplinary the Next Administration” orientations and political viewpoints. The Shai Feldman, Swartz Director, Crown Center seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for for Middle East Studies; professor of politics, Brandeis University Middle Eastern Studies. Open to the public and off the record, it has become widely known February 5, 2009 as an arena for the civilized discussion of “Pious Patriots: Religious Minorities and Secular controversial issues. Professor Herbert Kelman Citizens in Egypt and Ethiopia” has chaired the seminar since 1978; since 1996, Bruce B. Lawrence, Marcus Humanities Professor Lenore Martin and Dr. Sara Roy Professor of Islamic Studies; director, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University have co-chaired it with him. February 19, 2009 Co-Chairs: Herbert Kelman, Faculty Associate (emeritus); Richard Clarke Cabot Professor “Syria and its Neighbors: What Lies Ahead” of Social Ethics, emeritus, Department of Joshua Landis, assistant professor of Middle Psychology, Harvard University. Lenore Martin, East studies; codirector, Center for Middle East Associate, Harvard University; professor of Studies, University of Oklahoma political science, Emmanuel College. Sara Roy, February 23, 2009 associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University “Obama and Iraq: Designing a Workable Exit Strategy” September 18, 2008 Joost Hiltermann, deputy program, Middle “Coexistence in Israel: Report on a National East and North Africa, International Crisis Study of Jewish-Arab Relations” Group Todd Pittinsky, associate professor, Harvard March 5, 2009 Kennedy School; research director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University “The Mideast after the Elections in Israel: Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose?” October 2, 2008 Yoram Peri, professor and head of the Chaim “Whither Palestine? Defining a New Political Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society, Tel Aviv University Fragmentation: Kashmir, Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective” March 19, 2009 Paul Staniland, PhD candidate, Massachusetts “As the Dust Settles in Gaza” Institute of Technology Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Shawwaf Visiting February 9, 2009 Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Harvard University “The Power of Promises: A Strategic Advantage for Democracies?” April 2, 2009 Tyson Belanger, PhD candidate, Department of “Afghanistan: Rhetoric and Reality” Government, Harvard University Rory Stewart, Ryan Family Professor of the RELIGION AND POLITICS: LOCAL AND GLOBAL Practice of Human Rights; director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University The Weatherhead Center collaborated with April 16, 2009 the Initiative on Religion in International “Hamas and Hizballah: A Changing Islamist Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Paradigm” Belfer and Hauser Centers in establishing an Mark Perry, director, Conflicts Forum, Beirut interdisciplinary research seminar exploring and Washington, DC the intersection of religion and politics at the POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND CIVIL WAR SEMINAR local and global levels. Through a series of invited talks the seminar explored political, Faculty and graduate students based across legal and philosophical dimensions of religion the Cambridge area participated in this and public life, including: the effects of political workshop, which covered topics related to and constitutional systems on religious liberty, political violence and regional, ethnic, and the relations between religion and modernity, religious conflict. Graduate students from all religion and gender equality, religion in stages of their PhD program, as well as recently international affairs and the challenges of inter- graduated postdoctoral students, presented religious relations. their work. The workshop culminated in a Co-Chairs: Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith, two-day long graduate student conference on Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. civil conflict hosted at Yale. The workshop Nancy Rosenblum, Senator Joseph Clark culminates each spring with a graduate student Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government conference that brings together students and Theory, Department of Government, Harvard faculty from Harvard, Massachusetts Institute University. Bryan Hehir, Faculty Associate; of Technology, and Yale. The fourth annual Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, conference is in 2010. Harvard Kennedy School; president, Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston. Monica September 22, 2008 Duffy Toft, Faculty Associate; associate “Is It Better Not to Talk? A Field Experiment on professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy Talk Radio and Community Relations in Eastern School. Ofrit Liviatan, Faculty Associate; Democratic Republic of Congo” lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Academy Scholar, University Harvard Academy for International and Area October 6, 2008 Studies; PhD, Department of Social Psychology, Yale University “Region, Religion, and the 2008 Presidential Campaign” November 3, 2008 Mark Silk, director, Leonard E. Greenberg “Democracy Means the Locals to Vote: Center; professor of religion and public life, International Reform Efforts in Post-Dayton Trinity College, Hartford Bosnia” October 27, 2008 Andrew Radin, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of “Does It Matter What Religion Is?” Technology Christopher Eisgruber, provost; Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs, November 17, 2008 Princeton University “Explaining Armed Group Cohesion and Discussant: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 35 Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law Discussant: Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. School Professor of Law, Harvard Law School November 10, 2008 “‘Hindu Tolerance’ and Religious Freedom: North India, ca. 1880–1930” “Separation of Church and State in American Cassie Adcock, assistant professor, Washington History and Today: Facts, Fictions, and Future University at St. Louis Challenges” John Witte, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Discussant: Mridu Rai, associate professor, Yale Law; director, Center for the Study of Law and University Religion, Emory University “‘The Mysterious Virtue of Wax and Parchment’: Discussant: Rene Reyes, lecturer on law, Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Harvard Law School Early Republic” Sam Haselby, junior fellow, Harvard Society of November 17, 2008 Fellows “The Global Pentecostal Explosion” Discussant: Stephen Marini, Elisabeth Luce Peter Berger, professor of religion, sociology Moore Professor of Religion, Wellesley College and theology; director, Institute on Culture, March 9, 2009 Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University Discussant: Eric Kaufmann, fellow, Initiative on “Are the Culture Wars Over? Religion, the 2008 Election, and the New Quest for Community” Religion in International Affairs, Belfer Center E. J. Dionne, senior fellow, The Brookings for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Institution; professor, Georgetown Public Policy University Institute, Georgetown University December 1, 2008 Discussant: Richard Parker, lecturer in public “Islamism Revisited” policy, Harvard Kennedy School Maha Azzam-Nusseibeh, associate fellow, March 16, 2009 Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London “Religiously Based Judgments and Religious Discourse in American Political Life” Discussant: Thomas Hegghammer, fellow, Kent Greenawalt, university professor, Initiative of Religion in International Affairs, Columbia Law School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University Discussant: Noah Feldman, professor of law, Harvard Law School January 26, 2009 April 27, 2009 “Public Religions Revisited: A Global Comparative Perspective” “Explaining Jihadists’ Differential Use of Suicide Jose Casanova, professor of sociology, Bombings” Georgetown University Thomas Hegghammer, fellow, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Harvard Discussant: Nelly Lahoud, fellow, Initiative of Kennedy School Religion in International Affairs, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Discussant: Assaf Moghadam, fellow, Initiative University on Religion in International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School February 2, 2009 May 11, 2009 “The Evolution of the Secular State in Spain: Recent History and Current Issues” “Religion and US Foreign Policy: Understanding Javier Martinez-Torron, professor of law, and Engagement with Orthodox Christianity in Complutense University, Madrid Russia, the Middle East, and Europe” Elizabeth Prodromou, assistant professor of Discussant: Ragnhil Nordas, fellow, Initiative of International Relations, Boston University Religion in International Affairs, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Discussant: Monica Duffy Toft, Faculty University Associate; associate professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School February 23, 2009 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY SEMINAR “Toleration and Empire: The Origins of American Religious Pluralism” The Program on Science, Technology, and Evan Haefeli, assistant professor, Columbia Society (STS) at Harvard Kennedy School University runs a public lecture series on science and Chair/Moderator: Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty democracy, a weekly discussion group on Associate; Pforzheimer Professor of Science and science, technology and society, and an annual Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School young scholars’ meeting with support from February 23, 2009 the Weatherhead Center, the Center for the “Does (Should) Racial Counting Have a Future Environment, the Graduate School of Arts in America?” and Sciences, and numerous other programs. Kenneth Prewitt, School of International and A major purpose of these events is to advance Public Affairs, Columbia University a research agenda in science, technology, Panelists: Duana Fullwiley, assistant professor and international affairs. Students and faculty of African and African American studies; from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard professor of medical anthropology, Harvard University. Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry Kennedy School, other Harvard professional LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government; schools, as well as Massachusetts Institute of professor of African and African American Technology and other Boston area universities, studies; Harvard College Professor, Harvard participate in all of these activities. Topics center University. Mary C. Waters, M. E. Zukerman broadly on the uses of technical knowledge Professor of Sociology, Harvard University and expertise to rationalize public decisions in SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR fields of national and international concern, such as trade in genetically modified organisms, Partially funded by the Weatherhead Center, bioethics, climate change, and environmental the South Asia Seminar focuses on political, regulation. In 2008–2009, these topics were economic, security, and cultural issues in examined in public lectures by the eminent South Asia. Presentations are given by scholars, sociologist, , several distinguished scholars journalists, and public figures from, or of the Internet and society, a Weatherhead specializing in, the subcontinent. Since 1990, Center-supported conference on “Sociotechnical the South Asia Seminar has attracted faculty, Imaginaries and Science and Technology visiting scholars, and students from Harvard Policy,” and several smaller workshops and and other universities in the Greater Boston panels. Representing fields such as history, area. The seminar is co-sponsored by the sociology, psychology, law, political science, and Harvard University Asia Center. anthropology, the participants demonstrated the Chair: Sugata Bose, Faculty Associate; Gardiner wide interdisciplinary resonance of STS as an Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, area of inquiry in the social sciences. Harvard University Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate; October 24, 2008 Pforzheimer Professor of Science and South Asia Without Borders Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School

November 12, 2008 “The Real History of the Great People: Rajatarangini and the Mapping of India’s Past” “Risk Society’s Cosmopolitan Moment: Climate Chitralekha Zutshi, associate professor of Change and the Opportunity for a New World Order” history, The College of William and Mary Ulrich Beck, professor of sociology, University March 6, 2009 of Munich; British Journal of Sociology Professor, London School of Economics “‘Governance, Labor and Institutional Change in Pakistan:’ Historical Processes and Contemporary Panelists: Peter A. Hall, senior adviser; faculty Challenges” associate; Krupp Foundation Professor of Nausheen Anwar, postdoctoral fellow, South European Studies, Department of Government, Asia Initiative, Harvard University Harvard University. Michèle Lamont, Faculty Associate; Robert I. Goldman Professor of SEMINAR ON SOUTHEAST ASIA SECURITY European Studies; professor of sociology; AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS professor of African and African American studies, Harvard University. Brian Wynne, The seminar on Southeast Asia Security professor of science studies; associate director, and International Relations is part of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects Weatherhead Center’s work with Singapore’s of Genomic, Lancaster University

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 37 Rajaratnam School of International Studies Norbert Walter, chief economist of Deutsche (RSIS), formerly the Institute of Defence and Bank Group; managing director, Deutsche Bank Strategic Studies (IDSS). Professor Iain Johnston Research, Frankfurt has collaborated with the RSIS on conferences Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University in Singapore and in Cambridge. He also spent six months at the RSIS as the S. Rajaratnam November 19, 2008 Professor of Strategic Studies. This seminar is designed to feature presentations from RSIS “The Future of NATO: Thoughts on the faculty and graduate students, as well as other Upcoming 60th Anniversary Summit” Dick Bedford, branch head, Strategic scholars working on Southeast Asia security Engagement and Vision, Allied Command and international affairs. Professors Amitav Transformation of NATO, Norfolk, VA Acharya, Leonard Christopher Sebastian, and December 2, 2008 Asad-ul Iqbal Latif have been RSIS visiting scholars from Singapore at the Weatherhead “Transatlantic Relations after the US Presidential Center in past years. Another recent visiting Elections: A British Perspective” Lord William Wallace of Saltaire, deputy scholar was David Capie, senior lecturer in leader of the Liberal Democrat Group; international relations, Victoria University of foreign policy spokesman in the House of Wellington at New Zealand. Lords; professor emeritus, London School of Economics February 2, 2009 Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University “The Role of Outside Powers in State Construction in Early Twentieth Century Asia” Ja Ian Chong, former researcher/intern, March 3, 2009 Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies; PhD, “The Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: Princeton University The AKP and its Foreign Policy Implications” TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS SEMINAR Ergun Ozbudun, professor of political science and constitutional Law, Bilkent University, The Transatlantic Relations Seminar focuses Turkey on the United States and Europe with a special Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Turkey and the Modern World emphasis on members of the EU and NATO. The transatlantic relationship has been the April 6, 2009 bedrock of post-World War II international affairs and now faces serious challenges in “The Role of Transatlantic Cooperation in the environment of both post-September 11 Financial Markets Reform” Jorgen Holmquist, director general of the and globalization. The seminar addresses Internal Market and Services of the European critical issues in US-European relations. Commission Last year’s speakers included European Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Commissioner Meglena Kuneva; Michael Leigh, for European Studies director-general for enlargement, European Commission; Dick Bedford, Allied Command April 20, 2009 Transformation, NATO; Piia-Noora Kauppi, “The Military Role of the European Union Today” member, European Parliament. General David Leakey, director of the military Co-Chairs: Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. staff of the European Union Boas Professor of International Economics, Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Harvard University. Karl Kaiser, director, for European Studies Program on Transatlantic Relations; adjunct professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy TUESDAY SEMINAR ON LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS School October 14, 2008 The Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Affairs allows faculty, visiting scholars, graduate “The US and Europe: Managing the Financial Crisis” students, and invited guests to present their research on contemporary issues in Latin Peter Andreas, associate professor in America. The seminar series is open to the international studies, Brown University public and regularly attracts a diverse audience November 18, 2008 of academics, students, and members of the “Political Diversity in Latin America’s ‘Left Turn’: community. Causes and Consequences” Co-Chairs: Jorge I. Domínguez, chairman, Steven Levitsky; Kenneth Roberts, professor Harvard Academy for International and Area of comparative and Latin American politics, Studies; Faculty Associate; Antonio Madero Cornell University Professor of Mexican and Latin American December 2, 2008 Politics and Economics, Department of Government; vice provost for international “Insurgency to Implementation: Mexico’s Popular affairs, Harvard University. Merilee Grindle, Health Insurance Program, 2001–2006” Faculty Associate; Edward S. Mason Professor Jason Lakin, research fellow, Harvard School of of International Development, Harvard Public Health University. Steven Levitsky, director, Graduate December 9, 2008 Student Programs; Faculty Associate; professor of government, Department of Government, “Institutions and Development: Rethinking Harvard University Neoliberalism and its Alternatives” Peter Kingstone, associate professor, September 30, 2008 Department of Political Science; director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean “Searching for the Micro-Foundations of Self- Governance in Latin America: Field Experiments Studies, University of Connecticut in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, February 3, 2009 Montevideo, and San José” Juan Camilo Cardenas, Robert F. Kennedy “Violence and Hybrid Organizational Forms: A Visiting Professor, David Rockefeller Center for Study of Conflict-Ridden Zones in Colombia” Latin American Studies Veneta Andonova, associate professor of management, Los Andes University, Bogotá October 7, 2008 February 17, 2009 “Report from Argentina: The Kirchners and Governance” “Rethinking Challenges to Democracy in (Post-) Marysa Navarro, De Fortabat Visiting Scholar, Civil War Colombia, 1946–1966” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Robert Karl, Graduate Student Associate; PhD Studies, Harvard University; Charles Collis candidate, Department of History, Harvard Professor of History, Dartmouth College University. October 14, 2008 February 24, 2009 “El Pensamiento Argentino Entre Dos “Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants Centenarios. Etapas de una Reflexión” of Land Occupations in Brazil” Carlos Altamirano, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Suresh Naidu, Academy Scholar, Harvard Professor, David Rockefellar Center for Latin Academy for International and Area Studies; American Studies, Harvard University PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley October 21, 2008 March 10, 2009 “Empire of Promises: Constructing US Colonialism in Puerto Rico” “Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda: Social Julian Go, assistant professor of sociology, Movements, Civic Participation and Democratic Boston University Innovation” Sonia Alvarez, professor in Latin American October 28, 2008 politics and studies, University of Massachusetts “Radical Democracy in the Andes: Indigenous at Amherst Peoples Experiences in Local Government” March 17, 2009 Donna Lee Van Cott, associate professor of political science, University of Connecticut “How an Andean Tiger Came to Be: Peru 2001– 2008” November 4, 2008 Daniel Schydlowsky, director, Boston Institute “The Politics of Numbers: (Mis)measuring Illicit for Developing Economies Cross-Border Flows and Policy Effectiveness”

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 39 March 31, 2009 Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. “Fidel Became Our God: Cubans’ Memories of the Revolution” The seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Elizabeth Dore, Wilbur Marvin Visiting Middle Eastern Studies. Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin Co-Chairs: Cemal Kafadar, Faculty Associate; American Studies, Harvard University; Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, professor of Latin American studies, University Department of History, Harvard University. of Southhampton, United Kingdom Lenore G. Martin, Associate; professor of April 7, 2009 political science, Department of Political Science, Emmanuel College. Muhammet “Explaining Why Governments Promote Women’s Bas, Faculty Associate; assistant professor of Rights in Latin America and the World” government, Department of Government, Mala Htun, associate professor of political Harvard University sciences, The New School for Social Research, New York September 17, 2008 April 14, 2009 “Turkey and the Gulf: A New Romance?” Lenore G. Martin “Andean Radical Populism: The Foe or the Essence of Democracy?” October 15, 2008 Carlos de la Torre, director, PhD Program in Social Science, Latin American Faculty for “Europeanization of Turkish State Ideology: Social Sciences, Ecuador Kemalism in the Twenty-First Century” Ali Tekin, visiting scholar, Minda de Gunzburg April 21, 2009 Center for European Studies, Harvard University; assistant professor; Jean Monnet “Power Asymmetries and the Origins of Constitutions in Latin America, 1988–2008” Chair, Department of International Relations, Javier Corrales, Central America Visiting Bilkent University, Turkey Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin October 29, 2008 American Studies, Harvard University “Turkey’s Challenges: A Muslim Democracy in April 28, 2009 the Turbulent Middle East” Cengiz Candar, columnist radikal, Turkish “Analyzing the 2009 Presidential Elections in El Salvador” Daily News; chief columnist, Referans Jocelyn Viterna, assistant professor of sociology November 12, 2008 and of social studies, Department of Sociology, Harvard University “Rethinking US-Turkish Relations” Ian O. Lesser, senior transatlantic fellow, TURKEY IN THE MODERN WORLD German Marshall Fund of the United States

With the increasingly important role of November 24, 2008 Turkey in both the international arena and the “European Identity and Enlargement after Lisbon” academy, the seminar on Turkey in the Modern Dimitris Keridis, associate professor of World is a place for candid and constructive international relations, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of dialogue among faculty and students of Macedonia Harvard University and the surrounding scholarly community. The seminar takes an December 5, 2008 interdisciplinary approach on subjects such “How Western Can a Country Be Without as culture, religion, the arts, science, politics, Democrats?” and history. Scholars introduce their research Soli Ozel, professor of international relations, findings for rigorous critique in preparation Bilgi University, Turkey; columnist, Turkish Daily News, Sabah for publication. The co-chairs balance complex topics and points of view, allowing for in-depth February 4, 2009 study of current issues and occasionally “Dealing with PKK Terror: A New Balance between reaching back into history for analytical Confrontation, Coercion, and Co-optation” perspective. Speakers include scholars, David L. Phillips, author; visiting scholar, journalists, artists, parliamentarians, ministers, Columbia University; senior fellow, Atlantic Council and diplomats from Turkey, the United States, February 18, 2009 speakers from within and beyond the Harvard “The Justice and Development Party and Women community, and provides time for questions in Turkey” and discussion. Fatma Tutuncu,visiting scholar, women, gender, and sexual studies, Harvard University; Chair: Robert L. Paarlberg, Associate; visiting assistant professor, Department of Public professor of government, Department of Administration, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Government, Harvard University (spring 2009); Turkey Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley “Assessing the Secularism Debate in Turkey College through the Lenses of Liberalism” Koray Tutuncu, Schell Fellow, Orville H. Schell, September 23, 2008 Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale “The Powers to Lead” Law School; assistant professor, Department Joseph S. Nye, Jr., senior adviser; Faculty of Public Administration, Abant Izzet Baysal Associate; Sultan of Oman Professor of University, Turkey International Relations, Harvard Kennedy March 3, 2009 School; University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University. “The Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: The AKP and its Foreign Policy Implications” October 16, 2008 Ergun Ozbudun, professor of political science and constitutional law, Bilkent University, Turkey “America’s Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq” Nir Rosen, Center on Law and Security, New Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Transatlantic York University; Research Fellow, New America Relations, supported by the Nicolas Janssen Foundation Family Fund of Brussels and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies October 28, 2008 “Putin, Power, and the New Russia” March 4, 2009 Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Wasserman Davis “The Turkish Sabbataians: From Judeo-Islamic Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Messianic Mystics to Secular Muslims” Wellesley College; senior scholar, Davis Center Cengiz Sisman, visiting assistant professor, for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Program; University visiting assistant professor, Department of Near December 2, 2008 Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University “The Real Global Food Crisis, and America’s April 1, 2009 Weak Response” “Turkey and the EU: Crucially Important to Each Robert L. Paarlberg Other in the Evolving International Order” Mario Zucconi, visiting professor, Woodrow CLOSED SEMINARS Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; senior fellow, COMMUNIST AND POSTCOMMUNIST COUNTRIES SEMINAR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SEMINAR From the 1970s to the 1990s, countries with The U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar has held communist political systems faced many sessions with a variety of guest speakers similar challenges but responded in remarkably from government, academia, policy research different ways. By the beginning of the 1990s, institutes, and the media on topics ranging from communist regimes survived only in Cuba the war on terror, to realism versus the Bush and East Asia. Nearly all communist and doctrine, to domestic politics and foreign policy. postcommunist countries now confront issues A number of the seminar guests presented of political legitimacy, economic growth and their thinking from newly published books or performance, and national and ethnic identities. articles. Topics covered in 2008–2009 included The communist and postcommunist worlds U.S.-Iranian relations, counterinsurgency pose stunning challenges in the redesign of policy, presidential elections and foreign policy, the international system: China is an emerging immigration policy, and responses to the rise superpower, North Korea is in discussions with of China. The seminar, which has existed at the United States over its nuclear program, the Center for three decades, features guest

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 41 and Russia is seeking a new international role. Department of Political Science, Brown Harvard University has numerous faculty University; center associate, Davis Center associated with various departments, research for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University centers, and institutes, who work on nearly all of these countries and issues. Each year, a April 28, 2009 faculty seminar on these topics meets three “The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on or four times under the sponsorship of the China and Vietnam” Weatherhead Center and the Davis Center for Yasheng Huang, associate professor of Russian and Eurasian studies. Each session is international management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of deliberately comparative, seeking to address Technology. Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings themes that cut across two countries. Burbank Research Professor of Political Co-Chairs: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Economy, Department of Economics, Harvard Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian University Studies, Department of Government, Harvard COMPARATIVE POLITICS University; director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Harvard University hosts professors with Grzegorz Ekiert (2008–2009 facilitator), interests in comparative politics. Some study professor of government, Department of Government, Harvard University; Jorge I. specific countries or issues, others focus on key Domínguez, Antonio Madero Professor of themes, such as political economy, and several Mexican and Latin American Politics and emphasize work on formal models of politics. Economics, Department of Government, The principal purpose of the Comparative Harvard University; vice provost for Politics Seminar is to facilitate discussion international affairs, Harvard University; among faculty who have different approaches Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Department of Government; to the study of the subject. To advance this director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard objective, the seminar distributes papers prior University to each meeting in order to foster discussion, October 22, 2008 comments, criticisms, and suggestions. There are no formal presentations. “The Meaning of Post-Communism in Eastern Europe and China” Co-Chairs: Jorge I. Domínguez, Antonio Jacques Rupnik, research director, Center for Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin International Studies, Foundation Nationale American Politics and Economics, Department des Sciences Politiques, Paris; senior fellow of Government; vice provost for international (Fall 2008), Davis Center for Russian and affairs, Harvard University; Nahomi Ichino, Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Roderick Faculty Associate; assistant professor of MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Government, Department of Government, History and Political Science, Department of Harvard University Government, Harvard University DIRECTOR’S FACULTY SEMINAR November 18, 2008 “The Cold War Past and Present: Understanding The Director’s Faculty Seminar, launched Today’s Challenges in Historical Perspective” formally in 2004–2005, is chaired by Center Mark Kramer, program director, Project on Director Beth A. Simmons. The seminar Cold War Studies, Harvard University; David provides an opportunity for Faculty Associates Wolff, professor of modern Russian history, of the Weatherhead Center to present and Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University; discuss their work. The Weatherhead Center’s visiting scholar (2008–2009), Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies primary mission is research, supported through research grants as well as research leaves for up March 12, 2009 to five faculty members each academic year. “Social Inequalities in China and Eastern The Director’s Faculty Seminar is held once a Europe” semester and offers a forum for the recipients of Martin Whyte, professor of sociology, these grants, as well as other Center associates, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Linda Cook, professor of political science, to present their research to Harvard colleagues. September 23, 2008

Chair: Beth A. Simmons, Center Director; “Democracy in America: Labour Mobility, Ideology and Constitutional Reform” Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center; Roger D. Congleton, professor of economics, Clarence Dillon Professor of International George Mason University; director, Center for Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard Study of Public Choice University September 30, 2008 November 25, 2008 “Ideological Extremism and Electoral Design: “Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law Multimember versus Single Member Districts” in Domestic Politics” Anthony Bertelli, C. C. Crawford Chair in Beth A. Simmons Management and Performance, School of April 14 Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California Law; Lilliard E. “Understanding African Poverty over the Longue Richardson, Jr., professor, Truman School of Duree” Public Affairs; associate director for public Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, professor policy research, University of Missouri of history and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. James October 7, 2008 A. Robinson, professor of government, Department of Government, Harvard “Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test” University Stefano Gagliarducci, assistant professor, FACULTY DISCUSSION GROUP ON Department of Economics, University of Rome POLITICAL ECONOMY Tor Vergata; Tommaso Nannicini, assistant professor of economics, Bocconi University, The Faculty Discussion Group on Political Milan. Paolo Naticchioni, assistant professor, Economy, co-sponsored by the Institute Univerisity of Cassino for Quantitative Social Science and chaired October 14, 2008 by Jeffry A. Frieden, Stanfield Professor of “The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing International Peace, holds informal luncheon Institutions on the Phillipine Frontier Under meetings on Tuesdays. Papers on a wide range America Rule, 1898–1918” of topics in political economy are sent to Noel Maurer, associate professor, Business, Government and the International Economy approximately 50 faculty members from various Unit, Harvard Business School; Lakshmi Iyer, schools and departments. A free-wheeling Faculty Associate; assistant professor, Business, discussion of the paper ensues among the Government and the International Economy faculty who attend. Unit, Harvard Business School

Chair: Jeffry A. Frieden, Faculty Associate; October 21, 2008 Stanfield Professor of International Peace, “How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Department of Government, Harvard University Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005” September 9, 2008 Patricia Funk, assistant professor, Department “Climate Change and Economic Growth: of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Evidence from the Last Half Century” Fabra; Christina Gathmann, assistant professor, Melissa Dell, PhD candidate, Department Department of Economics, University of of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Mannheim Technology. Benjamin F. Jones, associate professor, Department of Management and October 28, 2008 Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, “Taxation and Representation in Recent History” Northwestern University; Benjamin A. Olken, Jeffrey F. Timmons, professor of political junior fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de September 16, 2008 México “A Simple Political Economy of Relations among November 4, 2008 Democracies and Autocracies” “Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities: James D. Fearon, Geballe Professor in the Studying Development across the Americas” School of Humanities and Sciences, Department Miriam Bruhn, economist, finance and of Political Science, Stanford University

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 43 private sector development team, Development Bureaucratic Turnover in India” Research Group, The World Bank; Francisco Lakshmi Iyer, Faculty Associate; assistant A. Gallego, assistant professor, Instituto de professor, Business, Government and the Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y International Economy Unit, Harvard Business Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica School; Anandi Mani, senior researcher, de Chile ideas42; professor of economics, University of Warwick November 18, 2008 January 20, 2009 “How to Get the Snowball Rolling and Extend the Franchise: Voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832” “Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Toke S. Aidt, university senior lecturer, Fellow Economy” of Jesus College, University of Cambridge; Elhanan Helpman, Faculty Associate; Galen Raphaël Franck, lecturer, Department of L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Economics, Bar Ilan University, Israel Department of Economics, Harvard University; Oleg Itskhoki, PhD candidate, Department November 25, 2008 of Economics, Harvard University. Stephen “Redistribution and Pork in Two-Party Redding, professor of economics, London Competition” School of Economics John D. Huber, professor, Department of January 27, 2009 Political Science, Columbia University; Michael M. Ting, associate professor of political science “Measuring Explicit Political Positions of Media” and public affairs, Columbia University Daniel E. Ho, assistant professor of law; Robert E. Paradise Faculty Fellow, Stanford December 2, 2008 Law School; Kevin M. Quinn, associate “Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development professor, Department of Government, Harvard in the Americas: An Examination of the University Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis” Nathan Nunn, assistant professor of economics, February 3, 2009 Department of Economics, Harvard University “How Do States Formulate Medicaid and SCHIP December 9, 2008 Policy? Economic and Political Determinants of State Eligibility Levels” “Historical Political Futures Markets: An Reagan Baughman, assistant professor, International Perspective” Economics Department, University of New Paul W. Rhode, Zachary Taylor Smith Hampshire; Jeffrey Milyo, professor; Frederick Professor, Department of Economics, A. Middlebush Chair in the Social Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Department of Economics and Truman School Koleman Strumpf, Koch Professor of Business of Public Affairs, University of Missouri Economics, University of Kansas School of Business February 10, 2009 December 16, 2008 “Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization” “Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Pauline Grosjean, assistant professor in Default in the Age of Philip II, 1556–1598” economics, University of San Francisco; Mauricio Drelichman, assistant professor, Claudia Senik, professor, University Paris- Department of Economics, University of Sorbonne British Columbia at Vancouver; Hans-Joachim Voth, ICREA research professor, Economics February 17, 2009 Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Barcelona Evidence” Timothy J. Besley, Kuwait Professor of December 23, 2008 Economics and Political Science; director, “Policy Shaping Politics: Monetary Policy The Suntory and Toyota International Centres Deliberations in Congressional Hearings, 1976-2005” for Economics and Related Disciplines; Andrew Bailey, executive director, banking director, MPA Programme, London School and chief cashier, Bank of England; Cheryl of Economics; visiting professor, Institute for Schonhardt-Bailey, reader in political science, International Economic Studies, Stockholm; London School of Economics Torsten Persson, professor of economics; director, Institute for International Economic January 6, 2009 Studies; Centennial Professor; London School “Traveling Agents: Political Change and of Economics March 3, 2009 “Why Did Canada Nationalize Liquor Sales in the 1920’s?: A Political Economy Story” “A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization” Ruth Dupré, professor, Institute of Applied John William Hatfield, assistant professor of Economics, HEC Montréal political economy, Stanford University; Gerard May 19, 2009 Padro i Miquel, lecturer in economics, London School of Economics “Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi’s Italy” March 10, 2009 Ruben Durante, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Brown University; Brian Knight, “The Flypaper Effect” associate professor of economics and public Robert P. Inman, Richard King Mellon policy, Brown University Professor of Finance; professor of finance and economics, business and public policy, May 26, 2009 law and economics (Law School), real estate; chair, Business and Public Policy Department; “Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability” senior fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Paola Conconi, professor of economics, Economics, The Wharton School, University of Université Libre de Bruxelles; member, European Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics; Nicolas Sahuguet, associate March 17, 2009 professor, Institute of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal; Maurizio Zanardi, associate professor “The Impact of Party Organization on Electoral Outcomes” of economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Micael Castanheira, research fellow, Fonds member, European Center for Advanced National de la Recherche Scientifique; professor Research in Economics and Statistics of economics, European Centre for Advanced June 9, 2009 Research in Economics and Statistics, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Benoit S. Crutzen, assistant “Do Political Incentives Matter for Tax Policies? professor, Department of Economics, Erasmus Ideology, Opportunism and the Tax Structure” School of Economics, Erasmus University, Konstantinos Angelopoulosa, lecturer, Rotterdam; Nicolas Sahuguet, associate Department of Economics, University of professor, Institute of Applied Economics, HEC Glasgow; George Economides, assistant Montréal professor, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University March 24, 2009 of Economics and Business; Pantelis Kammasc, lecturer in economics, University of Ioannina “On the Looting of Nations” Mare Sarr, lecturer, School of Economics, June 16, 2009 University of Cape Town; Erwin Bulte, professor of development economics, “War and Relatedness” Wageningen University; professor of Enrico Spolaore, professor of economics; chair, environmental and natural resource economics, Department of Economics, Tufts University; Department of Economics, Tilburg University; Romain Wacziarg, associate professor of Chris Meissner, associate professor of economics, Global Economics and Management economics, University of California at Davis; Area, Anderson School of Management, Research Associate, National Bureau of University of California at Los Angeles Economic Research; Tim Swanson, chair of law June 23, 2009 and economics, University College London “Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls April 14, 2009 and How They Affect Their Students’ Achievement” Caroline M. Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer “History Without Evidence: Latin American Inequality Since 1491” Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Jeffrey G. Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Sonali Murarka, graduate student in applied Economics, emeritus, Harvard University economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania May 5, 2009 June 30, 2009 “How Globalization Affects Tax Design” James R. Hines, Jr., L. Hart Wright Collegiate “Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia” Professor of Law, University of Michigan Ruben Enikolopov, Nordea Assistant Professor May 12, 2009 of Finance, New Economic School, Moscow; Maria Petrova, SLON assistant professor of

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 45 economics, New Economic School, Moscow; and International Affairs and Weatherhead Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Hans Rausing Center for International Affairs attended the Professor of Economics, New Economic School, event. It was organized by Monica Duffy Moscow Toft, associate professor of public policy and July 7, 2009 director of the Initiative on Religion and “The Governance and Performance of Research International Affairs at the Kennedy School Universities: Evidence from Europe and the US” and Kathleen Moloney, director of the Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Weatherhead Center Fellows Program. professor of economics, Harvard University; Chair: Monica Duffy Toft, Faculty Associate; Mathias Dewatripont, professor, Université associate professor of public policy, Harvard libre de Bruxelles; research director, Centre for Kennedy School Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London; Caroline M. Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer April 23, 2009 Professor of Economics, Stanford University; “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” Andreu Mas-Colell, professor, Departament Stephen Walt, Faculty Associate; Robert d’Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu and Renee Belfer Professor of International Fabra; chairman, Barcelona Graduate School Relations, Harvard Kennedy School; of Economics; André Sapir, professor John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison of economics, Solvay Brussels School of Distinguished Service Professor of Political Economics and Management, Université Libre Science, University of Chicago de Bruxelles; senior fellow, Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory; research INTERNATIONAL LAW-INTERNATIONAL fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research RELATIONS SEMINAR (CEPR), London July 14, 2009 During academic year 2008–2009, Beth A. Simmons (Harvard University) and Joel “Why Was It That Europeans Conquered the Trachtman (Tufts University) chaired the World?” Philip T. Hoffman, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline International Law-International Relations Professor of Business Economics; professor of Seminar. The Graduate Student Coordinator history, California Institute of Technology was Cosette Creamer, a student in the July 21, 2009 Government Department and Harvard Law School. This year, the Seminar sought to “Can Lobbying Prevent Anticompetitive increase the number of speakers invited from Outcomes? Evidence on Consumer Monopsony in Telecommunications” outside of the Harvard University community. Dino Falaschetti, associate professor of law It was coordinated closely with Tufts University and economics, College of Law, Florida State and took advantage of visiting faculty at University Harvard Law School to attract scholars from FUTURE OF WAR SEMINAR outside the Harvard Community engaged in cutting-edge scholarship at minimum cost. The Future of War Seminar explores the ways in which preparation for war, as well By bringing in such high caliber speakers, as the causes and conduct of warfare, have the seminar had the opportunity to attract changed in the post-Cold War era. The excellent discussants drawn from a number 2008–2009 seminar, held on April 23, 2009, of different schools at Harvard University and featured a talk by Stephen Walt, Robert Tufts University. In order to further the goal of and Renee Belfer Professor of International the Seminar—to encourage interdisciplinary Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, scholarship—discussants with a social science and John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison background were provided for speakers with Distinguished Service Professor of Political a legal background and vice versa. Structuring Science at the University of Chicago, on their the seminar in this way created an ideal forum 2007 book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign for encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogue Policy. Faculty members, senior staff, and and engagement with faculty from across the fellows from the Belfer Center for Science University and the greater Boston area. Co-Chairs: Beth A. Simmons, Center Director; Harvard University Faculty Associate; Clarence Dillon Professor of February 4, 2009 International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Joel Trachtman, professor of “A Functional Approach to Global international law, The Fletcher School of Law and Constitutionalism” Diplomacy, Tufts University Jeffrey Dunoff, visiting professor, Harvard Law School October 1, 2008 Discussant: Antonia Chayes, visiting professor “The IL-IR Agenda: Paths Taken and the Way of international politics and law, The Fletcher Ahead” School, Tufts University Beth A. Simmons, Joel Trachtman, Ryan Goodman, Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human February 25, 2009 Rights and Humanitarian Law; director, Human “Interests, Incentives and Institutions in the Legal Rights Program, Harvard Law School Regulation of Armed Conflict.” October 15, 2008 Kurt Gaubatz, associate professor, Department of Political Science, Old Dominion University “International Tribunals: A Rational Choice Analysis” Discussant: Gabriella Blum, assistant professor Andrew Guzman, professor of law; director of law, Harvard Law School of graduate programs; associate dean for March 4, 2009 international and executive education, Berkeley Law School, University of California “An Interactional Theory of International Legal Obligation” Discussant: Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor Jutta Brunnée, Metcalf Chair in Environmental of International Peace, Department of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Government, Harvard University Discussant: David Lazer, associate professor of October 29, 2008 public policy; director, Program on Networked “Operational Activities of International Governance, Harvard Kennedy School Organizations” March 11, 2009 Ian Johnstone, professor of international law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University “An Economic Analysis of International Rulemaking” Discussant: David Kennedy, vice president for Barbara Koremenos, research associate international affairs, Brown University professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute November 19, 2008 for Social Research, University of Michigan “Institutions, Leadership Change, and Discussant: Katerina Linos, Harvard Society of International Cooperation: The Reliability of Fellows; International Law Fellow, Harvard Law Democratic Commitments” School Ashley Leeds, Albert Thomas Associate April 1, 2009 Professor, Rice University “Informal Governance: International Discussants: Muhammet Bas, Faculty Associate; Organizations and the Limits of U.S. Power” assistant professor of government, Department Randall Stone, associate professor of political of Government, Harvard University; Gerald science, Department of Political Science, Neuman, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of University of Rochester International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, Harvard Law School Discussant: Jeffrey Dunoff, visiting professor, Harvard Law School December 10, 2008 April 15, 2009 “Europe’s Judicial Resolution and the UN Security Council” “Borrowing and Non-borrowing among Grainne de Burca, visiting professor, Harvard International Courts” Law School Erik Voeten, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Discussants: Jens Meierhenrich, Faculty Georgetown University Associate; assistant professor of government and of social studies, Department of Government, Discussant: Paolo G. Carozza, visiting associate Harvard University; visiting professor of law, professor, Harvard Law School University of Tokyo; Carina Sprungk, visiting May 6, 2009 assistant professor, Department of Government,

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 47 “Fighting Germs through (International) Law?” Government, Harvard University Lori Fisler Damrosch, visiting professor, Discussant: Lucy Barnes, PhD candidate, Harvard Law School Political Economy and Government Program, RESEARCH WORKSHOP IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS Harvard Kennedy School “Divergent Social Responses to Climate Change In 2008–2009, the Research Workshop in in Rural Alaska” Comparative Politics (Government 3006) was Jen Howk, PhD candidate, Department of led by Professors Jens Meierhenrich, Susan J. Government, Harvard University Pharr, and Thomas Remington. Supported Discussant: Meg Rithmire, PhD candidate, initially by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, Department of Government, Harvard University this workshop is now funded by a grant from the Office of the Dean of the Graduate October 8, 2008 School of Arts and Sciences. Graduate student Practice Job Talk: “Labor Reform in Japan and participants, who receive academic credit, and Korea” the faculty leading the workshop present their Jiyeoun Song, advanced research fellow, own work in progress on issues in comparative Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University politics with other workshop members serving as discussants. A key feature of the seminar is October 15, 2008 its commitment to the notion of research as “Political Economy of Service Provision in the a collective enterprise, in which participants Middle East” benefit from sharing their ideas and receiving Anya Vodopyanov, PhD candidate, Department feedback. The seminar occasionally invites of Government, Harvard University other scholars to present their work in progress. Discussant: Sarah Shehabuddin

Co-Chairs: Jens Meierhenrich, Faculty October 22, 2008 Associate; assistant professor of government and Practice Job Talk: “Iron Fists in Silk Gloves: of social studies, Department of Government, Building Political Regimes in the Middle East” Harvard University; visiting professor of law, Sean Yom University of Tokyo; Susan Pharr, director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Faculty October 29, 2008 Associate; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of “Insider-Outsider Politics in France and Japan” Japanese Politics, Department of Government; Nathan Cisneros, PhD candidate, Department director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Thomas Technology Remington, professor of political science, Emory University; visiting scholar, Davis Discussant: Jiyeoun Song Center, Harvard University November 5, 2008 September 17, 2008 Practice Job Talk: “Building Parents of the Next Organizational Meeting Generation: Family Policy in Japan” Liv Coleman, advanced research fellow, September 24, 2008 Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University “Rules of Engagement: The Determinants of Secularist-Islamist Relations on Issues of Women’s November 12, 2008 Rights and Civil Liberties” Sarah Shehabuddin, PhD candidate, “Competing for Votes in Newly Independent Department of Government, Harvard States: Evidence from Post-Soviet Central Eurasia University (draft chapter)” Fredrik Sjoberg, Visiting Research Fellow, Discussant: Sean Yom, PhD candidate, Harvard University Department of Government, Harvard University Discussant: Anya Vodopyanov, PhD candidate, October 1, 2008 Department of Government, Harvard University “What’s Different and How It Matters: The Changing Political Landscape of Irish Public “Building Modern Cities: Capital, Space and Opinion 1970–2008” Power in Urban China (Dissertation Chapter)” Sean McGraw, PhD candidate, Department of Meg Rithmire Discussant: Federico Baradello, PhD candidate, Nathan Cisneros Department of Government, London School of Discussant: Lucy Barnes Economics “Political Christianity: Churches and Politics in November 19, 2008 Contemporary Africa” Chris Rhodes “Politics and Christianity in Africa: 1992– Present” Discussant: Sarah Shehabuddin Chris Rhodes, PhD candidate, Department of February 25, 2009 Government, Harvard University Discussant: Amanda Garrett, PhD candidate, “Legal Responses to Genocide” Department of Government, Harvard Jens Meierhenrich University Discussant: Sean Yom “Special Session on Professional Development March 4, 2009 (Part I)” Susan Pharr “The Wandering EUropean (or the De Facto Birth of the EU Citizen): New Migration Trends December 3, 2008 within the Boundaries of the Enlarged European Union” “Working Time and Redistributive Preferences in the OECD” Ruxandra Paul, PhD candidate, Department of Lucy Barnes, PhD candidate, Political Economy Government, Harvard University and Government Program, Harvard Kennedy Discussant: Liv Coleman School March 11, 2009 Discussant: Nathan Cisneros “Social Mobilization and Institutional Innovation “Special Session on Professional Development in Response to Climate Change in Rural Alaska (Part II)” and Beyond” Susan Pharr Jen Howk December 10, 2008 Discussant: Jiyeoun Song “A Global Rio Grande: Bilateral Coordination March 18, 2009 Mechanisms for Migration Management in Mexico-U.S. and Morocco-Spain (Prospectus)” “The Rise and Fall of Family Value Politics in Federico Baradello, PhD candidate, Japan” Department of Government, London School of Liv Coleman Economics Discussant: Susan Pharr Discussant: Liv Coleman April 1, 2009 January 28, 2009 “Political Islam, Secularism, and Women’s Rights” Organizational Meeting Sarah Shehabuddin February 4, 2009 Discussant: Chris Rhodes April 8, 2009 Joint meeting with Qualitative Research Workshop, “Interviewing in Closed Societies” “An Interruption Posing as an Origin: Oil and Alastair Iain Johnston, Faculty Associate; Development in the Middle East” Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Sean Yom Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Discussant: Amanda Garrett Department of Government, Harvard University April 15, 2009 February 11, 2009 “Employment Hours and Economic Adjustment: The Political Economy of Working Time in “Radical Islam in the West: Media Portrayal in Advanced Industrial Democracies” the U.S. and France” Lucy Barnes Amanda Garrett, PhD candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Discussant: Jiyeoun Song Discussant: Jen Howk April 22, 2009 February 18, 2009 “Special Session on Proposal Writing and Publishing” “Down and Out in Paris and Tokyo: Insider- Jens Meierhenrich Outsider Politics in Rich Democracies”

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 49 April 29, 2009 of Political Economy in the Department of “The Politics of Labor Market Reforms in Japan” Government, Harvard University Jiyeoun Song September 29, 2008 Discussant: Lucy Barnes Chair: Nahomi Ichino RESEARCH WORKSHOP IN POLITICAL ECONOMY “Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Columbia” Co-taught by Professors James Alt, Jeffry Oeindrila Dube, fellow, Center for A. Frieden, Michael Hiscox, and Nahomi International Development, Harvard Kennedy School Ichino, the Research Workshop in Political Economy (Government 3007) is a year-long October 6, 2008 graduate seminar that aims to encourage Chair: Michael Hiscox crossdisciplinary research and excellence “Balancing or Signaling? Electoral Punishment in in graduate training. Political economy is a Subnational Elections” research tradition that explores how institutions Mike Kellermann, PhD candidate, Department affect political and economic outcomes. The of Government, Harvard University workshop emphasizes the development of October 20, 2008 dissertation proposals and is a place where Chair: Daniel Ziblatt graduate students can present their research to an audience of committed and informed “Global Forces, Local Adjustments: The Politics of Labor Market Deregulation in Contemporary peers. It is open to graduate students in the Japan and Korea” Departments of Government and Economics, Jiyeoun Song, Advanced Research Fellow, and the Program in Political Economy and Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard Government. The workshop holds both University internal and public seminars and meetings. At October 27, 2008 the internal meetings, approximately twelve Chair: Jeffry A. Frieden per semester, graduate students and faculty present their own work to one another. At “Political Economy of Service Provision in the Developing Country Context: The Impact of the public meetings, two a semester, leading NGO Activity on the Quality and Reach of scholars are invited to Harvard to present their Government Services” work. Although the workshop is by invitation Anya Vodopyanov, PhD candidate, Department only, affiliates of the Weatherhead Center are of Government, Harvard University encouraged to attend the public meetings. “Labor in the Global Economy: Workers, Worker Representatives and Employers’ Responses to Co-Chairs: James Alt, Faculty Associate; Frank Economic Globalization” G. Thomson Professor of Government; director, Damian Raess, Wertheim Fellow, Labor and graduate studies, Department of Government, Worklife Program, Harvard Law School Harvard University; Jeffry A. Frieden, Faculty Associate; Stanfield Professor of International November 3, 2008 Peace, Department of Government, Harvard Chair: James Alt University; Michael Hiscox, Faculty Associate; professor of government, Department of “In Investors We Don’t Trust: Public Opinion of Foreign Investors in Transition Economies” Government, Harvard University; Nahomi Dilyan Donchev, PhD candidate, Department Ichino, Faculty Associate; assistant professor of Government, Harvard University of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University November 10, 2008 September 15, 2008 Chair: Nahomi Ichino Organizational Meeting “British Business and the Euro” Ophelia Eglene, resident scholar, Minda September 22, 2008 de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Chair: James Alt Harvard University “Shaping Democratic Practice and the Cause of Discussant: Stefanie Walter, Fritz Thyssen Electoral Fraud in pre-1914 Germany” Fellow, Program on Transatlantic Relations; Daniel Ziblatt, Paul Sack Associate Professor senior Researcher, University of Zürich, Switzerland “On the Waterfront: An Empirical Study of Discussant: Lucy Barnes, PhD candidate, Corruption in Ports” Political Economy and Government Program, Sandra Sequeira, PhD candidate, public policy, Harvard Kennedy School Harvard Kennedy School December 15, 2008 Discussant: James Alt Chair: Michael Hiscox November 17, 2008 “The Political Economy of Working Hours in Chair: Michael Hiscox Post-Industrial Countries” Lucy Barnes “The Causes and Consequences of Budget Delays in US States” Discussant: Mike Kellermann Lasse Holbøll Westh Nielsen, Graduate School “He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellow, Harvard in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election” University; PhD candidates, Department of James Robinson, Faculty Associate; professor Economics, University of Copenhagen of government, Department of Government, “Refugees, Security, and the Politics of Harvard University International Law” Discussant: Daniel Ziblatt Jill Goldenziel, PhD candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University February 2, 2009 November 24, 2008 Chair: James Alt “Committing to Professionalization: Civil Service Chair: Daniel Ziblatt Reform in East Central Europe” “Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Uganda” Monica Nalepa, Academy Scholar; assistant Janet Lewis, PhD candidate, Department of professor, Department of Political Science, Rice Government, Harvard University University Discussant: Michael Hiscox Discussant: Georgy Egorov “The Equality Multiplier” “The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Erling Barth, Visiting Research Fellow, Labor Development” and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School Marcus Alexander Discussant: Jeffry A. Frieden Discussant: Lucy Barnes December 1, 2008 February 9, 2009 Chair: Jeffry A. Frieden Chair: Jeffry A. Frieden “Democracy, Credible Commitments, and Market “Fiscal Transparency and Procyclical Fiscal Policy” Access: Evidence for the ‘Democratic Advantage’” Lasse Holbøll Westh Nielsen Rebecca Nelson, PhD candidate, Department of Discussant: James Alt Government, Harvard University “Labor Markets in Latin America and East Asia” Discussant: James Alt Claire Schwartz, PhD candidate, Department “Interests, Institutions, and Incentives to Delay of Government, Harvard University Adjustment” Stefanie Walter February 23, 2009 Discussant: Nahomi Ichino Chair: Daniel Ziblatt December 8, 2008 “The Demand-Side Effect of Globalization: How JobOffshoreability and Skills Affect Individuals’ Chair: James Alt Policy and Partisan Preferences” Stefanie Walter “Why Resource-Poor Dictators Choose Freer Media: Theory and Evidence from Panel Data” Discussant: Michael Hiscox Georgy Egorov, PhD candidate, Department of “Economic Globalization, Wage Bargaining, and Economics, Harvard University Declining Collective Bargaining Agreements in “The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Germany” Development” Damian Raess Marcus Alexander, PhD candidate, Department Discussant: Daniel Ziblatt of Government, Harvard University March 2, 2009

RESEARCH SEMINARS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 51 Chair: Nahomi Ichino Discussant: Jens Hainmueller, assistant “Political Christianity: Churches and Politics in professor, Department of Political Science, Contemporary Africa” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Christopher Rhodes, PhD candidate, No talk title available Department of Government, Harvard University Lucy Barnes March 9, 2009 Discussant: Ben Goodrich, graduate student, Social Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy Chair: Michael Hiscox School and Department of Government, No talk title available Harvard University Mike Kellermann April 13, 2009 Discussant: Andrew Eggers, PhD candidate, Department of Government, Harvard Chair: Nahomi Ichino University “A Network Framework for Modeling Information “Working Time in the Advanced Industrial Constraints” Democracies: Beyond Supply Side Explanations” Jennifer Larson, PhD candidate, Department of Lucy Barnes Government, Harvard University “Political Investing: The Common Stock March 16, 2009 Investments of Members of the US Congress, Chair: James Alt 2004–2007” Jens Hainmueller, Andy Eggers “Asymmetric Information, Rent Extraction and Aid Efficiency” Discussant: Andrew Coe, PhD candidate, Julia Cage, special student, Department of Department of Government, Harvard Economics, Harvard University; PhD candidate, University Paris School of Economics April 20, 2009 Discussant: Georgy Egorov Chair: Michael Hiscox “Who Got a Good Deal?: Debt Rescheduling and the Costs of Adjustment in the 1980s Debt Crisis” “Economic Causes of Conflict and War Part One: Rebecca Nelson Trade” Andrew Coe Discussant: Stefanie Walter “Political Accountability under Special Interest March 30, 2009 Politics” Georgy Egorov Chair: Jeffry A. Frieden “Political Budget Cycles in Developed Democracies” April 27, 2009 Marek Hanusch, visiting fellowship (spring Chair: James Alt 2009), Department of Government and the “Coordination and Reform Coalition: Labor Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Market Deregulation in Japan and South Korea” Harvard University; PhD candidate, political Jiyeoun Song economy, University of Oxford Discussant: Nahomi Ichino “Like-Biased Experts And Noisy Signals” Wolfgang Gick, visiting scholar, Minda de “Evaluating the Impact of Fair Trade Certification” Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Michael Hiscox Harvard University Discussant: John Patty, assistant professor, Department of Government, Harvard University April 6, 2009 Chair: Daniel Ziblatt “Does Legislative Representation of Small Parties Affect Immigration and Environmental Policy?” Olle Folke, PhD candidate, Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University; visitor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology RESEARCH PROGRAMS

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The Canada Program seeks to enhance the Samuel Abrams, Department of Government understanding of one of the United States’ Efrat Arbel, Harvard Law School closest geographic allies by examining Canadian Maria Banda, Harvard Law School social, cultural, economic, and political issues Lydia Bean, Department of Sociology in their domestic and international dimensions. Jeffrey Denis, Department of Sociology The program, founded in 1967 as the William Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Graduate School of Lyon Mackenzie King Chair, now comprises Education an annual visiting professorship—appointed by Hilary Kaell, History of American Civilization various departments—several graduate student Program fellowships, a seminar speaker series, and an Shelagh McCartney, Graduate School of annual faculty conference. The Mackenzie King Design Chair participates in programmatic activities Daniel Nadler, Department of Government and develops the seminars and conferences as Tiffanie Ting, Graduate School of Education related to his or her research and teachings. CONFERENCES The program offered a diverse range of events during 2008–2009. The Canada Seminar—a WHITHER NATIONAL MYTHS? REFLECTIONS ON THE colloquia of presentations by notable Canadians, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF NATIONAL MYTHS including academics, public servants, MAY 6–8, 2009 journalists, professional practitioners, and artists—presented twelve times and served as a This conference convened fifteen distinguished focal point for engaging faculty, students, and scholars to examine the state and the fate of the broader Harvard community and providing national myths in a sample of societies around an informed view of Canadian scholarly and the world. Old national myths are now seriously public life. A more formal scholarly event, challenged, if not collapsing, in a number of the annual faculty conference, was organized contemporary societies. In many Western by the 2008–2009 William Lyon Mackenzie nations, for instance, painful memory of the King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, failures of the twentieth century, postmodern Gérard Bouchard, a professor of sociology at disenchantment, rising individualism, ethnic the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. And diversification, globalization, declining power of 2008–2009 saw the inaugural cohort of Canada the nation-state, and regional or local tensions Research Fellows—eleven students, representing have combined to destabilize the symbolic the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the foundation of collective integration and identity. Law School, the Graduate School of Design, and the Graduate School of Education—who were The diagnosis of a cultural crisis is quite awarded grants for research on dissertations common (who has not heard about the loss of with Canadian focus. meaning, the erosion of common values, the undermining of social cohesion, and so forth?). STAFF For many observers, a weakening of national identities raises the threat of fragmentation Beth A. Simmons, faculty chair; Center and implosion. Yet, those pessimistic views are Director; Clarence Dillon Professor of stranger to other societies which enjoy robust International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University national myths or are engaged in a vigorous process of myth-building. Helen Clayton, administrator For each nation under scrutiny, the conference addressed several basic issues, such as: What is the situation of the national myths? Are they

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 53 strong and resilient, threatened, collapsing, Brazil restructuring? How to account for their Jeffrey Lesser, professor of history, Emory University sustainability or for their demise? What is the Mexico underlying historical, social or political dynamic at work? What factors or mechanisms drive Fernando Castanos, chair of contemporary the rise and the fall of a myth? Can or must Mexican studies, University of Montréal nations do without that sort of overarching Israel symbolic configurations? If so, how to rethink Yael Zerubavel, professor of Jewish studies and the fabrics and the future of our societies? And, history, Rutgers University if it appears that the framework of nation has FRIDAY, MAY 8 become inappropriate to provide the symbolic glue of modern (or postmodern) societies, what England would be an appropriate substitute? Krishan Kumar, professor of sociology, University of Virginia Chair: Gérard Bouchard, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Poland Studies; professor of sociology, Université du Geneviève Zubrzycki, professor of sociology, Québec à Chicoutimi University of Michigan WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 Europe Welcome Dinner Vincent Della Sala, associate professor of political science, University of Trento Introductory Remarks: Steven B. Bloomfield, executive director Québec Keynote Address: Gérard Bouchard Lynn Spillman, University of Notre Dame Canada THURSDAY, MAY 7 Allan Smith, professor of history emeritus, Opening Remarks: University of British Columbia Beth A. Simmons United States China Werner Sollors, professor of African and Yinan He, assistant professor, John C. African American studies, Harvard University Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University CANADA SEMINAR

Japan The Canada Seminar offers presentations by Stephen Vlastos, professor of history, The public figures, scholars, artists, and experts University of Iowa in various fields and provides a forum for India the lively exchange of ideas on a wide range of issues. The seminar has hosted numerous Narendra Subramanian, professor of political notable Canadians: Prime Ministers Pierre science, McGill University Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chretien; Russia Hall of Fame hockey player and former Toronto Yitzhak Brudny, professor of political science, Maple Leaf President, Ken Dryden; and Justice The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court South Africa of Canada. Because Canada and the United States, like many industrialized countries, Monica Popescu, assistant professor of English, must respond to similar economic and social McGill University challenges with distinctly different frameworks Zimbabwe and historical legacies, the study of Canadian Ruramisai Charumbira, assistant professor of issues offers rich opportunities for scholars history, the University of Texas at Austin engaged in comparative studies. In 2008–2009, the Canada Program presented six seminars and a six-lecture diversity seminar series. Chair: Gérard Bouchard February 26, 2009 October 15, 2008 “The Democratic management of Ethnic Diversity: Canada” “The Three Faces of Canadian Identity” Charles Taylor, professor of philosophy, Philip Resnick, professor of political science, emeritus, McGill University University of British Columbia March 5, 2009 October 23, 2008 “Ethno Religious Assertiveness Out of Racial “Multiculturalism, Anti-Multiculturalism, Inequality: England” and Post-Multiculturalism: New Debates on Tariq Modood, professor of sociology, politics Citizenship and Diversity in Western Societies” and public policy, University of Bristol Will Kymlicka, FRSC, Canada research chair in political philosophy, Queen’s University March 9, 2009 December 1, 2009 “Diversity and Its Discords: the United States. Nathan Glazer, professor of sociology and “Native Sovereignty and Identity.” education, emeritus, Harvard University Roger L. Nichols, professor of history, University of Arizona March 12, 2009 “Contemporary Indigenous Issues in Québec: “The Democratic Management of Ethnic Collective Memory and the Colonial Legacy” Diversity: Québec” Denys Delage, associate professor of sociology, Gérard Bouchard Laval University March 16, 2009 “Truth and Consequences: Aboriginal Reconciliation in Canada?” “The Democratic Management of Ethnic Bruce Granville Miller, professor of Diversity: France” anthropology, University of British Columbia Pierre Rosanvallon, professor of political history, Collège de France February 9, 2009 CENTER FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS (CHE) “Inter-Ethnic Relations in Québec: The ‘Accommodations Crisis’ and the Bouchard- The Joint Center for History and Economics Taylor Report.” Gérard Bouchard; Charles Taylor, professor of was established at Harvard University and philosophy, emeritus, McGill University King’s College, University of Cambridge, in July 2007 to encourage research and education Discussants: Christopher Bail, Graduate Student Associate; Eric Kaufmann, Belfer on subjects of importance for historians and Center Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School economists. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their February 23, 2009 common concerns, through the history “Current and Future Priorities in Québec for of economic and social thought, through International Relations with the United States” economic history, and through the application The Honourable Jean Charest, premier of Québec of economic concepts to historical problems. Co-sponsored with the Québec Government The objective of the Center for History and Office, Boston Economics is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related April 6, 2009 disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing “Another Tale from the Frozen North: Success Co-existing with Failure in Health and Human issues of public importance. Development” Clyde Hertzman, FRSC, director, Early In conjunction with its counterpart centre at Learning Project, University of British King’s College, University of Cambridge, the Columbia Center for History and Economics at Harvard Diversity Seminars University will undertake research projects and The Democratic Management of Ethnic Diversity: organize workshops, seminars, and exchanges Canada, England, the United States, Quebec, France, of faculty and graduate students. It provides the Netherlands the base for the current research project, “Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 55 since 1760,” which is supported by a grant Ocean history, and on the other, the history from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and of political and economic thought within the includes the project,“Digitization of History.” broader context of economic, religious, and legal history. STAFF DIGITIZATION OF HISTORY Emma Rothschild, director Meg Lemay, program coordinator The project was started in May 2007 by a Amy Price, website coordinator group of graduate students, faculty, and visiting faculty at Harvard and the University EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of Cambridge. It seeks to encourage debates Lizabeth Cohen on the new possibilities and consequences Robert Darnton of the digitization of historical materials and to explore new ways of increasing access to Dale Jorgenson archives and other sources of information. Charles Rosenberg This academic year the project has sponsored Emma Rothschild conversations and seminars on strategies Elaine Scarry for using electronic resources in teaching Richard Tuck and research and the social implications of GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES inequalities in information accessibility.

Angus Burgin HISTORY AND ECONOMICS SEMINAR Alisha Holland Philipp Lehmann November 5, 2008 Elisa Minoff “Limits and Growth: Environment and Energy Joshua Specht Supply in Britain, 1560–2000” Julia Stephens Paul Warde, University of East Anglia Jeremy Zallen November 12, 2008 VISITING RESEARCH STUDENTS “Codification in the East and West: Henry Maine and Legal Reform in British India” Emile Chabal Karuna Mantena, Yale University David Singerman November 19, 2008 EXCHANGES OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL “How Progressive were the Progressives? A IDEAS SINCE 1760 Twenty-first Century Reappraisal of Early Twentieth Century Social Criticism and Reform.” The Cambridge-Harvard program is supported Ellen Fitzpatrick, University of New Hampshire/Radcliffe Institute by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is co-ordinated by Emma Rothschild, Sugata March 12, 2009 Bose, and Richard Tuck at Harvard, together “Histories of Economic Life” with Gareth Stedman Jones and Chris Bayly Sugata Bose, Walter Johnson, Mary Lewis, at the University of Cambridge. The program Daniel Smail, Harvard University explores exchanges, over long distances, of April 16, 2009 economic and political ideas and the ways in “Two Subjects of Empire: Race, Nation and the which ideas such as global connectedness, race, Law from Jamaica to London, 1823–1830” and liberalism are transformed in different Caitlin Anderson, Trinity College, Cambridge settings. Its objective is to bring together two April 30, 2009 promising developments in recent historical scholarship—on the one hand, the investigation “Protectionism and Nationalism in Nineteenth of large-scale political, economic, and cultural Century France” David Tall, Trinity Hall, Cambridge systems, particularly within Atlantic and Indian GRADUATE TRAINING February 24, 2009 “Failure to Launch: Savonese Trade in the The Center offers a number of opportunities for Mediterranean, 1100–1250” graduate students to present their work in the Rowan Dorin fields of history and economics and encourages March 10, 2009 exchanges between senior and junior scholars. Each Wednesday, the Center hosts an informal “The Production of News: Germany, Modernity, and the Global News Cartel, 1900–1931” meeting over tea where graduate students, Heidi Evans faculty, and friends can discuss their research and topics of interest. In 2008–2009, the Center April 2, 2009 organized the following programs and events “Keynes’s Genetics and the Ethical Life” for graduate students. David Singerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Intellectual History Discussion Group April 7, 2009 The Center co-sponsors this discussion group, “‘We Are the Burning Rage of this Dying Planet’: which meets periodically in the Center for The Earth Liberation Front and American Environmentalism” European Studies to discuss both original texts Jennifer Thomson and ongoing research in modern transatlantic intellectual history. Graduate research associate April 28, 2009 Angus Burgin is the current coordinator. “Poetry, Diplomacy, and the Languages of The program is available at: Political Conduct in Ottoman Society: The Story www.intellectualhistory.org. of Rami Mehmed Efendi (1654–1708)” Ekin Tusalp Graduate Workshop Series SPECIAL EVENTS

The graduate workshop series provided an informal forum for graduate students to October 31, 2008 present their research or papers in progress “History and Sustainability” to an audience of their peers. Graduate David Blackbourn; Alison Frank; Emma research associates of the Harvard Center, Rothschild; Paul Warde, University of East Anglia; Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Alisha Holland, Joshua Specht, and Jeremy Technology Stockholm Zallen, organized the series for the 2008–2009 Co-sponsored with the Center for the academic year. Environment, Harvard University

October 16, 2008 December 2, 2008 “Rewriting Jacobinism: François Furet and the “Economic Crises and Health: Risk or French Revolution” Opportunity?” Emile Chabal, Cambridge University Lincoln Chen; Julio Frenk; Felicia Knaul, November 13, 2008 Charles Rosenberg; Emma Rothschild; Amartya Sen; Keizo Takemi “Emasculating the Executive: Judicial Activism and Civil Liberties in Late Colonial India” Co-sponsored with the China Medical Board Rohit De, Princeton University February 23 , 2009 November 20, 2008 “Religion and the Law Workshop” “Germans in the Sandbox: The Colonial Encounter with the Southwest African Desert” Co-sponsored with the South Asia Initiative Philipp Lehmann May 29–30, 2009 December 4, 2008 “Re-thinking the 1820s: Europe, Latin America, “The Colloque Lippmann and the Origins of and the Persistence of Mutual Influence in a Neoliberalism.” Decade of Transformation.” Angus Burgin Gabriel Paquette, Cambridge; Michael Brown, Bristol

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 57 FELLOWS PROGRAM Among those who joined the Fellows at their seminars were Joseph Nye, Nicholas Burns, Eighteen Fellows were in residence at the Beth A. Simmons, Michael Dukakis, Steven Weatherhead Center during the academic year E. Miller, Rawi Abdelal, Ezra Vogel, Louise 2008–2009. These men and women represented Richardson, Robert Rotberg, and Dr. James fifteen countries, and included participants J. Mongan, president, Partners HealthCare. In from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. addition, Fellows participated in the WCFIA Career diplomats and other senior civil servants, Fellows’ Roundtable on World Affairs moderated career military officers, journalists, business by Center Director Beth A. Simmons and by professionals, and researchers came together for Professor Monica Duffy Toft. Fellows were also the academic year, participating actively in the individually engaged in the activities and work of intellectual life of the Center and the University. other Harvard centers and programs, including All highly experienced practitioners of those at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for international affairs, they conducted independent European Studies, David Rockefeller Center for research, organized and led study groups for Latin American Studies, Asia Center, Program Harvard College students, served as mentors to on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard Kennedy undergraduate students and assisted graduate School, and Harvard Law School. students with their research, attended classes (several faculty invited Fellows to guest lecture), Fellows made meaningful and important and offered their perspectives in gatherings contributions through their interactions with throughout the University. undergraduate students by participating in study groups and in dinner discussions at the The Fellows also spent time together discussing residential houses. The study groups and dinner international issues shaped by current events. discussions were designed specifically to respond For some, the year at Harvard marked the first to students’ own concerns about current issues. time in their careers that they felt unconstrained Topics covered in these meetings included a to debate issues frankly and openly with their discussion of the conflict in the Caucasus, the counterparts from other countries. The wars Canadian elections, the Iraq War and the future in Iraq and Afghanistan, the growing influence of the US military, economic development in of China and India, the rise of populist West Africa, and Rwanda after 1994. movements in Latin America, America’s changing role worldwide, immigration In addition, Harvard students worked as reform, international security concerns, and research assistants to Fellows. Along with the US presidential election were some of the assisting Fellows with their research projects, important issues that Fellows debated and students lent guidance in navigating the discussed. As diplomats, whether by profession University library system, helped identify or by nature, Fellows were respectful of their sources of information, and offered editorial colleagues with divergent points of view, and comments. In return, the undergraduates they welcomed the opportunity to think about learned valuable lessons in the practice of new and creative approaches for dealing with international affairs. difficult global issues. The Fellows’ experience also included Fellows met as a group twice weekly—over participation in two study trips outside breakfast each Wednesday at the Harvard Faculty Cambridge. Steven Peterson, colonel, US Army, Club, where they shared ideas and perspectives, organized a two-day trip to the United States and over lunch on Fridays, where they met Military Academy at West Point in November with distinguished and thought-provoking 2008. During this visit, Fellows heard from individuals (leading academics, politicians, cadets about their experience at the Academy journalists, and “unique voices” from other and about their hopes for the future, observed fields of endeavor) to discuss a variety of topics, classes in session, and met with Academy ranging from a discussion of global health to leaders. Colonel Peterson also assisted in the role of the United States in the world today. arranging meetings at the Pentagon on a June trip to Washington, DC, a trip that included November 7, 2008 briefings at the State Department and meetings “The 2008 Presidential Election—An Assessment” at three think tanks (Brookings, Cato, and Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor, Heritage Foundation). The Program is also political science, Northeastern University; grateful to Takeo Akiba for his invitation to the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States, 1988; former governor of Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC. Massachusetts Toward the end of the academic year, several November 14, 2008 Fellows organized a symposium on Africa in “Separation of Powers and Its Relationship to the cooperation with the Committee on African War on Terror” Studies and the Harvard International David Barron, professor, Harvard Law School Relations Council. The one-day symposium, December 5, 2008 “Rethinking Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for the twenty-first Century,” “Has Globalization Passed Its Peak?” featured presentations by Harvard faculty Rawi Abdelal, professor, Harvard Business School from across the University, including several January 30, 2009 Faculty Associates of the Weatherhead Center, “Turkey in the Middle East: Changes and WCFIA Fellows, and distinguished guests Challenges” from Washington, Europe, and Africa. The Lenore G. Martin, professor of political science, symposium was made possible through the Emmanuel College generous support of Hartley R. Rogers. February 6, 2009 “US Policy toward China and Japan” STAFF Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Kathleen Molony, director former national intelligence officer for Jason Ri, program coordinator East Asia, National Intelligence Council in Washington FELLOWS’ FRIDAY LUNCH SEMINAR February 13, 2009 Chair: Kathleen Molony, director Discussion of forthcoming book, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic September 26, 2008 Politics “A Discussion of What Terrorists Want” Beth A. Simmons, director; Clarence Dillon Louise Richardson, dean, Radcliffe Institute of Professor of International Affairs Advanced Study, Harvard University February 20, 2009 October 3, 2008 “The Role of the UN in Combating Terrorism” “The Iran Nuclear Crisis” Michael Smith, executive director, UN counter- Steven E. Miller, director, International terrorism executive directorate Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and March 6, 2009 International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School “Poverty and Why It Exists” October 10, 2008 John Ambler, senior vice president of “2008 Index of African Governance” programs, Oxfam America Robert I. Rotberg, director, Program on “The Situation in Iraq” Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Meghan O’Sullivan, lecturer in public policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; president, Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School World Peace Foundation March 13, 2009 October 31, 2008 “Conventional Arms Control and the Obama “American Religion and American Politics” Administration’s Challenges” Nancy T. Ammerman, professor of sociology of Jeffrey D. McCausland, visiting professor of religion; chair, Department of Sociology, Boston international law and diplomacy, Penn State University Dickinson School of Law; former director for defense policy and arms control on the NSC staff

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 59 March 20, 2009 December 5, 2008 “The Global Economic Crisis” “The End of Multiculturalism” Christopher Probyn, chief economist, State Lawrence Harrison, director, Cultural Change Street Global Advisors Institute, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy April 6, 2009 April 6, 2009 “US Health Care Financing” “U.S. Health Care Financing” James J. Mongan, MD, president and chief James J. Mongan executive officer, Partners HealthCare April 22, 2009 April 10, 2009 “Reregulating Global Finance” “Reforming NIMBY or Not in My Back Yard: Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy; Causes and Solutions to Social Friction” senior fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Denise Carpenter, APR, senior vice president, Kennedy School public and government affairs, EPCOR Utilities Inc. April 24, 2009 FELLOWS’ SPECIAL SEMINARS AND Fellows’ visit to Genzyme Corporation, meeting BOSTON-AREA MEETINGS with senior executives, Cambridge, MA April 29, 2009 Chair and Organizer: Kathleen Molony Luncheon meeting with Brigadier General September 16, 2008 James M. “Mike” Holmes, commander, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, Bagram Air Base, “The Powers to Lead” Afghanistan Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished April 30, 2009 Service Professor; Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy “European Identity” School Karl-Olof Andersson, Ministry for Foreign “The Ratification of the US Constitution: The Affairs, Sweden, and Fellow 2004–2005 Story of an Earlier Venture in Nation Building” WCFIA FELLOWS’ ROUNDTABLE ON WORLD AFFAIRS Pauline Maier, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Boston Committee on Foreign Chair: Beth A. Simmons, director; Clarence Relations dinner for Fellows, Boston Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard October 2, 2008 University “The Future of US Foreign Policy” October 16, 2008 Nicholas Burns, professor in the practice of diplomacy and international politics, Harvard “Africa’s Future—Political and Economic Challenges” Kennedy School Adamu Musa, Cameroon, journalist; Justin October 17, 2008 Chinyanta, Zambia, business professional; Alexis Rwabizambuga, Rwanda, scholar Meetings with editors, reporters, and op-ed columnists at The Boston Globe in Dorchester, December 3, 2008 Massachusetts “The Challenges Facing Nuclear Non- October 23, 2008 Proliferation and Its Impact on International Security “Twenty-First Century Counterinsurgency: What, Tamim Khallaf, Egypt, diplomat, Ministry of If Anything, Has Changed?” Foreign Affairs; Takeo Akiba, Japan, diplomat, Lieutenant General John Cooper, deputy Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Sarah MacIntosh, commanding general, Multi-National Forces United Kingdom, diplomat, Foreign and Iraq; senior British military representative, Iraq Commonwealth Office October 24, 2008 February 25, 2009 UN Day Luncheon in Boston with Sir John “Learning the Right Lessons: War in Iraq and Sawers, KCMG, UK permanent representative to Beyond” the UN and Fellow, 1995–1996 Steven W. Peterson, US, colonel, United States Army; Ian Wallace, UK, civil servant, Ministry of Defence; Craig Wills, US, colonel, United Fellow, 1991–1992; Fatoumata Sy Ba, Fellow, States Air Force development economist, World Bank; former Moderator: Monica Duffy Toft, associate minister of economy, trade, and industry, Mali; professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy Sandra Sequeira, postdoctoral fellow, Institute School for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University April 13, 2009 FELLOWS’ RESEARCH “The Global Crisis and Regional Integration— Three Perspectives” Takeo Akiba, Japan, diplomat, Ministry of Carolina Roca, Guatemala, commissioner, Tax Foreign Affairs; director of the China and Customs Administration; Ben Van Houtte, and Mongolia division. Impact of WMD Belgium, civil servant, European Commission; proliferation on East Asian security (fall term) Justin Chinyanta. Fatoumata Sy Ba, Mali, development economist; minister of economy, industry Disscussant: Richard Cooper, Maurits C. Boas and trade. Importance of the organizational Professor of International Economics, Harvard effectiveness of public institutions (spring University term) SYMPOSIUM RETHINKING AFRICA: OPPORTUNITIES Sophie Belfrage Becker, Sweden, diplomat, AND CHALLENGES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Ministry for Foreign Affairs; first secretary for political affairs, Swedish Embassy, New APRIL 17, 2009 Delhi. “Future Challenges of the European Defense and Security Policy” (spring term) Welcome Remarks Justin Chinyanta, Zambia, business professional; chairman, Loita Group, Loita Kathleen Molony; Justin Chinyanta Holdings Corporation. Role of African private sector and capital markets in ensuring Opening Remarks success of the New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Jacob K. Olupona, chair, Committee on African Studies; professor of African religious Onno Hückmann, Germany, diplomat, traditions, Harvard Divinity School; professor German Foreign Office; director. “German of African and African American studies, Compensation for National Socialist Injustice” Harvard University Tamim Khallaf, Egypt, diplomat, Ministry of Panel Discussion: Power and Governance Foreign Affairs; permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva. Nuclear non- Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, professor of proliferation and disarmament, and on the history, Harvard University; Robert Rotberg, peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the Middle director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and East Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science Sarah MacIntosh, United Kingdom, diplomat, and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy Foreign and Commonwealth Office; School; Sarah MacIntosh, Fellow; UK high high commissioner to Sierra Leone and commissioner to Sierra Leone, 2006–2008; H. ambassador to Liberia. Weak and at-risk E. James Kimonyo, ambassador of Rwanda states to the United States; Ambassador Matthias Young-hwan Oh, Republic of Korea, journalist; Mülmenstädt, director for African affairs, editor, foreign affairs and national security German Foreign Office; Alexis Rwabizambuga, division, JoongAng Sunday. Relationship Fellow; research fellow, London School of between the US and North Korea and also on Economics; Caroline Elkins, Hugh K. Foster the future of the ROK-US alliance Associate Professor of African Studies, Harvard University Steven W. Peterson, United States, colonel, United States Army; deputy director, Panel Discussion: Development, Trade & Investment operations integration, Under Secretary of Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of Defense for Intelligence. “US Intelligence International Political Economy, Harvard Support to Decision Making” Kennedy School; Jean-Louis Ekra, president, Leonid Polyakov, Ukraine, former military African Export-Import Bank; Michael Kremer, officer; former Vice Minister of Defence. Gates Professor of Developing Societies, “Ukrainian Military Ethos” Harvard University; Eric Chinje, manager, Carolina Roca, Guatemala, senior civil Africa External Affairs, World Bank; CFIA servant; commissioner, Tax and Customs

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 61 Administration. “Advancing the Central act as mentors to the Academy Scholars and American Customs Union” help them realize their intellectual potential. Peter Rothen, Germany, diplomat, German The Academy also organizes seminars and Foreign Office; director, human rights conferences, supports Harvard faculty research, department. Human rights issues and sponsors publications. Alexis Rwabizambuga, Rwanda, research fellow, London School of Economics. The Harvard Academy supported ten Academy Environmental security and sustainable Scholars in 2008–2009 The Academy also development in Africa sponsored two conferences in 2008–2009, Michèle Stanners, Canada, consultant and one organized by Academy Scholar Lily Tsai, cultural strategist; former advisor to premier, and the other by Academy Scholar Melani Province of Alberta. Role of culture in advancing economic and political integration Cammett. It co-sponsored one conference with Hiroshi Takano, Japan, politician, New Komei the Fletcher School, Tufts University. There Party. US-Japan alliance (fall term) were five author’s conferences in 2008–2009 Ben Van Houtte, Belgium, civil servant, to discuss manuscripts by Academy Scholars. European Commission. Transport policy and The Academy’s ongoing seminar series offered European integration presentations by both Academy Scholars and Ian Wallace, United Kingdom, civil servant, faculty from Harvard and other universities. Ministry of Defence; adviser, multi-national forces; senior British military representative in The Academy is an autonomous entity within Iraq. Conduct of stabilization operations and the framework of the Weatherhead Center for international engagement with failing states International Affairs. Its leadership includes a Craig Wills, United States, colonel, United chairman and a committee of Senior Scholars States Air Force; commander, 493rd fighter appointed by the dean of the Faculty of Arts squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath and Sciences. The Senior Scholars act as the HARVARD ACADEMY FOR INTERNATIONAL Academy’s oversight committee, select new AND AREA STUDIES Scholars, and serve as their mentors.

The Harvard Academy for International ACADEMY SENIOR SCHOLARS and Area Studies is dedicated to increasing our knowledge of the culture, history, and Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science institutions of the world’s major regions and of Government; professor of African and African American Studies countries. The Academy is based on the premise Steven Caton, professor of contemporary Arab that knowledge and understanding of other studies in the Department of Anthropology countries and cultures requires a combination Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg of rigorous disciplinary skill and deep area Professor of Government and Russian expertise. The Academy Scholars Program was Studies; director, Davis Center for Russian established to facilitate that goal by supporting and Eurasian Studies exceptional scholars at the start of their careers Jorge I. Domínguez, Antonio Madero Professor whose work combines excellence in a social of Mexican and Latin American Politics and science discipline (including history and law) Economics; vice provost for international with a command of the language, history, or affairs; chairman, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies culture of non-Western countries or regions. Grzegorz Ekiert, professor of government Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational issues, past or Henrietta Harrison, professor of history present. Those selected as Academy Scholars Roderick MacFarquhar, (2008–2009) Leroy B. Williams Professor of Government are given time, guidance, access to Harvard facilities, and substantial financial assistance Edward Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History as they work for two years conducting either Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor dissertation or postdoctoral research in their of Government chosen fields and areas. The Senior Scholars, a Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor distinguished group of senior Harvard faculty, of Japanese Politics; director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Politics and Program on Governing the Bedouin,” to be published in the U.S.-Japan Relations Israel Studies Forum, and “‘Seeing the State’: James A. Robinson, professor of government Kinship Networks and Kurdish Resistance in Mary Steedly, professor of anthropology Turkey,” to be published in an edited volume honoring Joel S. Migdal. She presented her STAFF research at the Center for Middle Eastern Laurence H. Winnie, executive officer Studies at Harvard University, the Center for the Kathleen Hoover, program coordinator Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University, and the Workshop ACADEMY SCHOLARS on Minorities in the Middle East at Princeton University. Belge held an authors’ conference to Ceren Belge PhD, Department of Political discuss the first draft of her book manuscript Science, University of Washington with a diverse group of scholars, including Lisa Blaydes, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists. She worked on a dataset of Stanislav Markus, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, University Turkish lower court decisions on honor killings, of Chicago expanding the data she had collected during Sebastián Mazzuca, PhD candidate, her dissertation research. Belge will spend the Department of Political Science, University summer taking an intensive Hebrew course in of California Berkeley Israel and completing her book manuscript. Harris Mylonas, assistant professor of political In fall 2009, she will start working on a new science and international affairs, The Elliott research project at the Harvard Academy. School of International Affairs, George Washington University Lisa Blaydes Suresh Naidu, PhD, Department of Economics, In the 2008–2009 academic year completed University of California Berkeley. research for and revised a book-length Monika Nalepa, assistant professor, manuscript, “Competition without Democracy: Department of Political Science, University Elections and Distributive Politics in of Notre Dame (spring term) Mubarak’s Egypt,” which will be submitted for Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, assistant professor, consideration to Cambridge University Press. Department of History, University of California Berkeley She also wrote and revised a number of articles Elizabeth Levy Paluck, assistant professor, that have been published or are currently Department of Psychology, Princeton under review. Blaydes’ article, “Ideological University Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Nancy Qian, assistant professor, Department of Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt” Economics, Yale University (co-authored with Lawrence Rubin), appeared in Terrorism and Political Violence (October VISITING SCHOLAR 2008). “Women’s Electoral Participation in Stacey Philbrick Yadav, assistant professor, Egypt: The Implications of Gender for Voter Department of Political Science, Hobart and Recruitment and Mobilization” (co-authored William Smith Colleges (fall term) with Safinaz El-Tarouty) has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Middle East ACADEMY SCHOLAR RESEARCH TOPICS AND ACTIVITIES Journal. Her paper entitled, “One Man, One Vote, One Time? Modeling the Prospects for Ceren Belge Spontaneous Democratization in the Middle Her 2008–2009 Academy year was spent East,” (co-authored with James Lo) has been working on journal articles and a book invited for revision and resubmission to the manuscript titled, “Whose Law?: Clans, Honor Journal of Politics. Blaydes also began work on Killings, and State Minority Relations in Turkey a number of new projects including developing and Israel.” Belge completed two articles, an original public opinion survey which was “From Expert Rule to Bureaucratic Authority: fielded beginning in the summer of 2009. She presented papers at the Duke University

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 63 Islamic Studies Workshop, the Leitner Political Colombia and Central America; another one Economy Seminar at Yale University, and at tracing the work and budgets of the incipient the Harvard University Center for Middle bureaucracies in Argentina; and the final one East Studies Director’s Series. In the fall of on a theoretical model of secession/union of 2009, Blaydes will continue as an Academy regions under asymmetric shocks of wealth. Scholar and resume her position as an assistant His formal work on partisan mobilization professor of political science at Stanford strategies, joint with Jordan Gans-Morse and University in 2010. Simeon Nichter, former fellow students at UC Berkeley, was published as a working paper of Stanislav Markus the WCFIA, “Who Gets Bought? Vote Buying, As an Academy Scholar in 2008–2009, Markus Turnout Buying, and Other Strategies.” (2009– advanced his work along three directions. First, 2006) As part of his vocation for conceptual he completed and defended his dissertation, clarity, Mazzuca contributed a few entries “Business and State in the Developing World.” (“political regime,” and “power sharing”) to Markus’s dissertation addresses the interaction the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of between government and firms in the spheres Political Science. of corporate governance, property rights, and business associations. Second, he has Harris Mylonas completed an article manuscript on how Mylonas spent his first Academy year, 2008– the rule of law emerges in post-communist 2009, working on a book entitled, Assimilation, states. The manuscript is based on the original Accommodation, or Exclusion? A Geopolitical survey of 516 firms in Russia and Ukraine. Explanation of State Policies, which is under The key idea of this piece is that not only the review at Cambridge University Press. In the state but also the private actors (e.g. firms) book he identifies the conditions in which the can have a substantial positive impact on ruling political elites of a state target non-core economic legality. Third, Markus conducted groups with assimilationist policies instead of additional fieldwork abroad. This fieldwork granting them minority rights or excluding included intensive case studies (interviews) of them from the state. During the year Mylonas state-business conflicts and the de-briefing of expanded his dataset on nation-building administrators for Markus’s large-N survey. policies in the Balkans and conducted research Currently, he is working on a co-authored in Greece and Cyprus, as well as archival article (with Martin Mendelski) which applies research in the UK (National Archives). In the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ paradigm to March, he held a book incubator (organized transition economies. In the summer of 2009, by the Institute for Global and International Markus began his assistant professorship at the Studies at George Washington University) and University of Chicago while also finishing his in May an authors’ conference (organized by the book manuscript. Academy at Harvard University) with scholars from political science, history, and sociology. Sebastián Mazzuca In addition to working on the book, Mylonas In 2008–2009 he spent his Academy year completed an article entitled “Assimilation completing his work (theoretical and archival) and its Alternatives: Caveats in the Study of on the origins of Latin American political Nation-Building Policies,” for the volume, institutions. A piece of that work, joint work Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State with James A. Robinson, was published in the Actors in Conflict, edited by Adria Lawrence Hispanic American Historical Review: the article and Erica Chenoweth which is under review “Conflict and Power Sharing in the Origins at MIT Press. He published another article in of Modern Colombia” appeared in the May Comparative Political Studies entitled “When issue. Mazzuca also wrote three chapters of his Do Votes Count? Regime Type, Electoral book-length manuscript on state formation Conduct, and Political Competition in Africa,” in the origins of modern Latin America; one (co-authored with Nasos Roussias). Mylonas comparing failed and successful experiences of has an additional article under review in Civil centralization in nineteenth-century Argentina, Wars. Two new articles are in preparation: one entitled “Peripheries, State Capacity, and Great collection from the Gutman Library. More Power Politics: Accounting for Secession in the preliminary projects begun include a paper Ottoman Empire,” and another, in collaboration on decomposing racial inequality across the with Katerina Mantouvalou, entitled, “Islam Americas, and the long-term impacts of the at the Borders of Europe: From the Cold to Mississippi flood. Next year, he will take the the Post-Cold War Era.” In addition, Mylonas second year of the fellowship and likely be organized a special seminar on Minority focused on the academic job market. Rights and the Lausanne Treaty: 85 Years Later Monika Nalepa in association with Alexandros Yannis, the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Nalepa’s return to the Academy in the spring Southeastern European Studies, Fletcher School, of 2009 occurred after her first semester as Tufts University. Mylonas also presented his assistant professor at the University of Notre work at the Greek Study Group, the Harvard Dame. At that time, her book manuscript, International Relations Council, and the “Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice Harvard Academy at Harvard University; the in Post-Communist Europe”—which she Yale European Undergraduates group at Yale had researched during her first year at University; the Identity Politics Workshop at the Academy—had just been accepted for Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the publication by Cambridge University Press as Elliott School of International Affairs at George part of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Washington University; the 14th Annual World Politics series. Based on research for that Convention of the Association for the Study project, Nalepa prepared two article length of Nationalities at Columbia University; and papers. One of them, entitled, “Infiltration as the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Insurance: Committing to Democratization Political Science Association. Mylonas also and Committing to Peace,” has come out in served as a discussant in the International the Forum for International and Humanitarian Conference “The Challenge of Reform in Law (PRIO) series No. 5., published by the Greece, 1974–2009: Assessment and Prospects” Peace Research Institute in Oslo. During her at Yale University and the 14th Annual World appointment as Academy Scholar, Nalepa Convention of the Association for the Study also completed two article length projects on of Nationalities at Columbia University. In fall international transitional justice. One project, 2009, he will begin teaching an undergraduate “Why do they return? Evaluating International course on Nationalism and a seminar on Tribunals’ is forthcoming in NOMOS, “Nation-Building in the Balkans” at George Proceedings of the American Society for Political Washington University. Mylonas will spend and Legal Philosophy, v. 50, Transitional Justice. his summer preparing his classes for next year The second, coauthored with Emilia Powel, and conducting archival research in Greece, the “International Transitional Justice and Peaceful United Kingdom, and the United States. Democratic Transitions,” will be presented at the meetings of the Peace Science Society Suresh Naidu and the International Studies Association in In the 2008–2009 academic year Naidu November 2009 and February 2010. Nalepa completed and submitted two papers, has also undertaken research towards her new presented at Harvard (three times), Hamilton book project, on civil service reform. This College, Berkeley, and Michigan, as well as the idea grew out of a project co-authored with Princeton IRS conference on monopsony in another Harvard Academy Scholar, Conor the labor market. He started and finished two O’Dwyer from University of Florida. The paper, new papers, one on estimating the economic “Committing to Professionalization: Civil determinants of Master and Servant law in Service reform in Post-Communist Europe,” nineteenth-century England, and another on won them a collaborative research grant from the effects of U.S. military aid on paramilitary the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at violence in Colombia. Naidu also began work Notre Dame to develop it into an article. In on a new project on disenfranchisement in addition Nalepa was funded by the Harvard the U.S. South, which involves substantial data Academy to collect data on professionalizing

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 65 the civil service reform during fieldwork in Elizabeth Levy Paluck Poland. In the summer of 2009 she was invited In 2008–2009, Paluck presented her work to a workshop organized by the Forum for at the conference on field experiments International Criminal and Humanitarian in comparative politics and policy at the Law of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo University of Manchester, Society for the to participate in a conference on land reform Psychological Study of Social Issues in in the settlement of civil conflict, held at the Chicago, Yale Institute for Social and Policy Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. Studies Anniversary Conference, Harvard Monika presented a new paper, “Dealing with Academy Conference on Conceptualizing and Competing Claims to Land in East Central Measuring Legitimacy, and at Harvard, NYU, Europe: In-Kind Restitution as a Problem and University of Massachusetts Amherst. of Fair Division.” She has also been invited Paluck served as an instructor at MICROCON’s to prepare a National Report as part of the Advanced Methods for Research in Conflict European Commission’s Directorate for Justice, Affected Countries in Olympia, Greece. Her Freedom, and Security’s project on “How the article based on her dissertation, “Reducing Memory of Crimes Committed by Totalitarian intergroup prejudice and conflict using the and/or other Repressive Regimes in Europe is media: A field experiment in Rwanda,” was Dealt with in Poland.” awarded an honorable mention for the Gordon Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. Paluck was also awarded a Henry Frank Guggenheim In her second year at the Academy, 2008– Foundation grant for her research in Southern 2009, Abena completed a book manuscript Sudan. She published “What’s in a Norm? on the transformation of six plants into Sources and Processes of Norm Change” pharmaceuticals. She expanded her PhD (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), research on traditional medicine and chemistry “The Promising Integration of Field in Ghana, to include case studies from South Experimentation and Qualitative Methods,” Africa and Madagascar. Time at the Harvard (Annals of the American Academy of Political Academy in 2008–2009 provided her with the and Social Science), a chapter titled, “Methods flexibility to travel to Antananarivo to trace and Ethics with Research Teams and NGOs: the history of two plants from Madagascar. Comparing Experiences Across the Border of Osseo-Asare also conducted research at the Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo,” Herbarium and Archives of the Royal Botanical (in Surviving Research: Working in Violent Gardens at Kew. Her article, “Bioprospecting and Difficult Situations), and a book review of and Resistance: Transforming Poisoned Arrows The Media and the Rwanda Genocide (African into Strophanthin Pills in Colonial Gold Coast, Studies Review). Another article, co-authored 1885–1922,” appeared in the journal Social with Donald P. Green, (“Deference, Dissent, History of Medicine in fall 2008. In addition, and Dispute Resolution: A Field Experiment She began research on a second project on on a Mass Media Intervention in Rwanda”) the history of nuclear energy in West Africa, was accepted for publication at the American incorporating a documentary film component. Political Science Review. In AY 2009–2010 Her wider research on the history of science Paluck joined Princeton University as assistant education in Ghana led to a conference paper professor in the Department of Psychology and for the 2008 History of Science Society annual in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and meeting, “Scientific Citizens: Experiments in International Affairs. Flag Nationalism and Laboratory Science in Ghana, 1957–1970,” now under review. During Nancy Qian her second year at the Academy, Osseo-Asare In 2008–2009 Qian worked on several projects also presented her research in Madagascar related to population and economic growth, at the Harvard Herbarium. In fall 2009, she and political economy. These include studies of returned to her position as assistant professor in the historical impact of potatoes on population the Department of History at the University of and urbanization, the effects of urban housing California at Berkley. reforms on labor mobility into the private sector in China, the causes of the Chinese to this research, Philbrick Yadav taught a Famine of 1959–1961, and the influence that Junior Research Tutorial on the “International U.S. government propaganda have on the U.S. Politics of the Middle East,” for the Department media. She spent several months in rural China of Government. Throughout her term at collecting quantitative and qualitative data for Harvard, Philbrick Yadav traveled to New York an ongoing project evaluating the effects of and Washington, DC to conduct interviews electoral reforms on income inequality and with members of the Yemeni opposition in growth. This includes compiling video footage the United States, and returned to Yemen in for a documentary about rural elections. Qian December to further extend her field research. will conduct field work in Africa this summer Upon her return, she gave a lecture at the U.S. for a study of the effects of donor based food aid Department of State on the prospects for the on health and development. Three of her papers 2009 parliamentary elections and the emerging were published this year in the Quarterly Journal cleavage within the opposition alliance. In of Economics, American Economic Journal and spring 2009, she resumed her position as the Journal of European Economics Association. assistant professor of political science at Hobart Her work on potatoes was reviewed in the Wall and William Smith Colleges. Street Journal and she received a research grant from the National Bureau of Economic Research ACADEMY SCHOLAR PRESENTATIONS for her study of food aid in Africa. September 29, 2008 VISITING SCHOLAR “From Property Fights to Property Rights: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine” Stacey Philbrick Yadav Stanislav Markus, PhD candidate, Department Yadav spent the fall 2008 semester working on of Government, Harvard University three articles stemming from her dissertation October 21, 2008 project on Islamist activism and party politics. The first, “Understanding What Islamists Want: “Oil: The Effect of China’s Rising Demand on Sub-Saharan African Political Economies” Public Debate and Contestation in Lebanon Nancy Qian, assistant professor of development and Yemen,” will be published by Middle economics, Department of Economics, Brown East Journal this summer. In it, she advances University an understanding of Islamism as concerned November 19, 2008 primarily with discursive and institutional transformations of the public, and explores “Southern Cone Leviathans: Center and Periphery in the Creation of Argentina, Brazil, some of the contractive and expansive effects Chile, and Paraguay” on public debate that have been generated by Sebastián Mazzuca, PhD candidate, Islamist participation in formal politics. The Department of Political Science, and MA second article deals with allegations of apostasy candidate, Department of Economics, and their effects on the dynamics of cross- University of California Berkeley ideological alliances in Yemen. This work is February 11, 2009 currently under review, and was presented as “The Politics of Nation-Building: The Making of part of the Director’s Lecture Series at Harvard’s Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities” Center for Middle East Studies in October. The Harris Mylonas, assistant professor of political final project moves somewhat outside of the science and international affairs, The Elliott dissertation research, theorizing the significance School of International Affairs, George of spatial practices that both inform and reflect Washington University Islamist women’s activism and their role in March 10, 2009 Yemen’s Islah party. Philbrick Yadav presented “Bureaucracy, Knowledge, and Control: versions of this work at the American Political Governing Minorities in Turkey and Israel” Science Association, the Center for Middle East Ceren Belge, PhD candidate, Department of Studies, and the Government Department’s Political Science, University of Washington Middle East Politics Workshop. In addition

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 67 April 8, 2009 This conference addressed concepts “Winning Muslim Hearts and Minds: Mapping surrounding legitimacy—the belief Entrenchment of Anti-American Sentiment in the that authorities, institutions, and social Islamic World” arrangements are appropriate, proper, and Lisa Blaydes, assistant professor, Department of just, which then leads to a sense of individual Political Science, Stanford University obligation to defer to and comply with HARVARD ACADEMY SEMINAR those authorities, institutions, and social arrangements. As Weber famously observed, The Harvard Academy Seminar brings there are different bases for legitimacy, which distinguished scholars to campus to discuss poses a significant challenge for comparative their research with an interdisciplinary group research. This conference approaches this of Harvard Academy Scholars, faculty, and challenge and the issue of legitimacy through graduate students. In keeping with the core questions such as: What must a government mission of the Harvard Academy, invited do to obtain legitimacy and what different speakers are social scientists whose work forms might that legitimacy take? How do focuses on the language, culture, history, citizens come to form their views of whether politics, and institutions of non-Western government is legitimate or not? What societies. The seminars—which comprise a strategies are there for empirical research on 30- to 45-minute presentation followed by legitimacy? discussion—take place over dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club. MINORITY RIGHTS AND THE LAUSANNE TREATY: 85 YEARS LATER Chairman: Jorge I. Domínguez, Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin APRIL 10, 2009 American Politics and Economics; vice provost for international affairs; chairman, Harvard Co-sponsored with the Constantine Karamanlis Academy for International and Area Studies Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European November 4, 2008 Studies of the Fletcher School, Tufts University “What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes” Speaker: Harris Mylonas, Academy Scholar Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation THE POLITICS OF NON-STATE SOCIAL WELFARE International Professor of Economics, PROVISION Massachusetts Institute of Technology February 23, 2009 MAY 8–9, 2009 “Institutional Legitimacy and Effective Co-Chairs: Melani Cammett, Academy Governance” Scholar; Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor Tom Tyler, university professor of psychology, of Political Economy, Department of Political New York University Science, Brown University. Lauren Morris April 1, 2009 MacLean, professor in the Department of Political Science, Indiana University “Iraq’s Political Future: Between Rentierism and Confessionalism?” Edward Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Non-state actors are increasingly important Middle East History, Harvard University and visible in the provision of social welfare in CONFERENCES both developed and developing countries. At the same time, international donor institutions CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING LEGITIMACY such as the World Bank advocate an enhanced FOR COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-NATIONAL role for non-governmental organizations, ANALYSES: A RESEARCH AGENDA community groups and private interests in the provision of public goods and basic welfare, MARCH 14, 2009 at a minimum in the form of public-private Chair: Lily Tsai, Harvard Academy Scholar partnerships. The justifications for expanding and assistant professor of political science, non-state welfare provision generally emphasize Massachusetts Institute of Technology technical or efficiency considerations, such as the capacity of firms or non-governmental Asad Ahmed (anthropology) studied the way in organizations to identify and cater to local- which Western political vocabulary has been level needs or the inability of state institutions appropriated into the populist politics of the Pakistan People’s Party. to meet basic welfare needs. But little research Adam Glynn (government) examined the focuses on the politics of non-state social effects of social connectedness on inter- welfare provision. The conference addressed group political and social behavior through core questions about the origins, nature and mapping cell-phone use in northern Ghana. consequences of social welfare by non-state Tamara Kay (sociology) was supported to providers (NSPs). What is a NSP and what are acquire Portuguese language training and its distinct sub-types? Are different political to travel to India and Nigeria to study contexts conducive to the rise or predominance how transnational organizations build of distinct types of NSPs? What factors—and transnational relations and engage in collaborative work. particularly political factors—have encouraged the emergence and consolidation of non- NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES PROGRAM (NSSP) state welfare providers? Do different types of NSPs operate in distinct places? What are the The National Security Studies Program (NSSP) political consequences of non-state welfare was created as a successor to the Olin Institute provision? This conference advanced an for Strategic Studies. Due to the closure of the emerging research area by bringing together a John M. Olin Foundation, the Olin Institute diversity of academic scholars and practitioners ended in June 2008. The central purposes of who analyze these questions from different the NSSP are to conduct basic, policy-relevant perspectives around the developing world. research on critical topics of national security and strategy and to educate and prepare AUTHOR’S CONFERENCES scholars in strategy and national security for positions in colleges, universities, research In 2004–2005 the Academy inaugurated a institutes, and government. NSSP awards program of author’s conferences for its Academy pre-doctoral fellowships, funds the research Scholars. Each of these half-day workshops of individual scholars, supports teaching in brought scholars—including both Harvard national security affairs at Harvard University, and outside faculty—together to comment on undertakes research projects on important specific sections of an Academy Scholar’s book topics, and publishes working papers. manuscript. These workshops provided valuable opportunities for Academy Scholars to obtain The 2008–2009 academic year was a transitional feedback on their work before publication. year for the National Security Studies Program. Stephen Peter Rosen, the Program’s director, During 2008–2009, five Academy Scholars was on sabbatical leave for the year. As a result, benefited from this new program: Lily Tsai, the Program did not have its usual number of Lisa Blaydes, Harris Mylonas, Abena Dove fellows or conduct a seminar program. Osseo-Asare, and Ceren Belge. STAFF JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS Stephen Peter Rosen, director The Harvard Academy continued to support Ann Townes, program coordinator faculty research at Harvard through its Junior Faculty Development Grant program. These Residual funds from the John M. Olin grants offer junior faculty opportunities to Foundation provide the core funding for the extend their knowledge of the language, NSSP and its activities. The Bradley Foundation culture, history, politics, and institutions of and the Smith Richardson Foundation also non-Western societies. In 2008–2009 the provide support to the Program. Additional Harvard Academy awarded three Junior Faculty funding is provided by the Weatherhead Center. Development Grants:

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 69 FACULTY MEMBERS Speakers: Stephen Peter Rosen; Vipin Narang Part 2: A public symposium The Beton Michael Kaneb Professorship of National Security and Military Affairs is an Speakers: Michael Mandelbaum, SAIS, endowed chair made possible by the generosity Johns Hopkins University; Martin Kramer; Jacqueline Newmyer, Long Term Strategy of John Kaneb. The NSSP administers the chair Group; Alan Dowty, Kroc Institute, University and provides support to its incumbent, Stephen of Notre Dame; Robert Satloff, The Peter Rosen, who teaches in the Department of Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Mark Government, conducts his own research at the N. Katz, George Mason University; Michael Program, and serves as the Program’s director. Singh, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Michael Doran, New York University NATIONAL SECURITY FELLOWS PROGRAM ON TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS

Dima Adamsky, visiting research scholar, European issues played a central role in the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace, formation of the Center for International Columbia University Affairs, now the Weatherhead Center, half a Martin Kramer, Wexler-Fromer Fellow, The century ago and got a major boost with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in establishment of the Center for European Jerusalem Studies, today’s Minda de Gunzburg Center. Vipin Narang, PhD candidate, Department of Given the importance of Europe as a partner of Government, Harvard University the United States in dealing with the problems of contemporary international politics and CONFERENCES world order, a particular effort is called for to strengthen research and teaching on MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY AT HARVARD transatlantic relations. Thanks to an initiating AFTER BUSH: AMERICA’S AGENDA IN THE donation by Pierre Keller of Geneva, the MIDDLE EAST Weatherhead Center has established a program SEPTEMBER 23, 2008 to intensify activities in this field at Harvard University and does so in close cooperation Part 1: A working session on security studies and the with sister institutions like the CES and the disciplines, with reference to the Middle East Harvard Kennedy School. Speakers: Malik Mufti, Tufts University; Philip Carl Salzman, McGill University; Stephen STAFF Rosen Karl Kaiser, director; adjunct professor of Part 2: A public symposium public policy, Harvard Kennedy School “US Interests: Problems of Definition” ADVISORY COMMITTEE Steven A. Cook, Council on Foreign Relations; Hillel Fradkin, Hudson Institute; Adam Garfinkle, Stanley H. Hoffmann, university professor; The American Interest; Martin Kramer chair, Center for European Studies “Does the Freedom Agenda Have a Future?” Beth A. Simmons, Department of Government; J. Scott Carpenter, The Washington Institute director WCFIA for Near East Policy; Michele Dunne, Carnegie Steven B. Bloomfield, executive director, Endowment for International Peace; Joshua WCFIA Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute; William C. Clark, Harvard Kennedy School Tamara Cofman Wittes, Saban Center, Brookings Institution Richard N. Cooper, Department of Economics Patricia Craig, executive director, Center for IRAN: THREAT, CHALLENGE, OR OPPORTUNITY European Studies APRIL 30, 2009 Peter Hall, Department of Government; Center for European Studies Part 1: A working session on Iran and nuclear Karl Kaiser, Weatherhead Center; Harvard deterrence theory Kennedy School Charles S. Maier, Department of History; “The Role of Transatlantic Cooperation in Center for European Studies Financial Markets Reform” Joseph S. Nye Jr., Harvard Kennedy School Jorgen Holmquist, director general of the Internal Market and Services of the European TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS SEMINAR Commission Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center The Program organizes a Transatlantic for European Studies Relations Seminar, which is co-chaired by Richard N. Cooper and Karl Kaiser. In 2009, April 20, 2009 the seminar series was supported by the Nicolas “The Military Role of the European Union Janssen Family Fund of Brussels. It held the Today” following meetings: General David Leakey, director of the military staff of the European Union October 14, 2008 Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies “The US and Europe: Managing the Financial Crisis” Norbert Walter, chief economist of Deutsche JOINT MEETING WITH THE STUDY GROUP ON THE Bank Group; managing director, Deutsche Bank FUTURE OF THE EU Research, Frankfurt The Program created a Study Group on the Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Future of the European Union, housed at the CES, which brings together professors and October 30, 2008 researchers in the greater Boston area who are interested in EU issues. “The Integration of East Germany and the Implications for Germany’s External Relations” Chair: Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor Christopher Matschie, leader of the opposition, of International Relations, Boston University Thuringia Deputy Chair: Karl Kaiser November 19, 2008 October 20, 2008 “The Future of NATO: Thoughts on the “Georgia on My Mind: Can the European Union Upcoming 60th Anniversary Summit” Cope?” Dick Bedford, branch head, Strategic Speakers: Jacques Rupnik, fellow, Minda Engagement and Vision, Allied Command de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Transformation of NATO, Norfolk, VA Harvard University; director of research, December 2, 2008 CNRS Paris; Jolyon Howorth, professor of international relations, Yale University “Transatlantic Relations after the US Presidential Elections: A British Perspective” February 13, 2009 Lord William Wallace of Saltaire, deputy “The Future of the European Union” leader of the Liberal Democrat Group; Speaker: Kalypso Nicolaïdis, director of the foreign policy spokesman in the House of European Studies Centre, University of Oxford; Lords; professor emeritus, London School of member of the European Union Economics “Group of Wise Men” Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center Speaker: None listed for European Studies Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies March 3, 2009

“The Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: February 17, 2009 The AKP and its Foreign Policy Implications” Ergun Ozbudun, professor of political science “Rethinking the Legitimacy of Multi-Level and constitutional law, Bilkent University Governance in the EU” Speaker: Christopher Bickerton, lecturer in Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Turkey and the international relations, Oxford University Modern World Supported by the Nicolas Janssen Family Fund of Brussels April 6, 2009

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 71 March 17, 2009 The Program administers the Pierre Keller “Democratic Deficits in the EU: West vs. East” Visiting Professorship for a scholar or public Speaker: David Cameron, professor of political servant who has distinguished her/himself science; director, Yale Program in European through academic research, teaching, or Union Studies public service in the field of transatlantic Supported by the Nicolas Janssen Family Fund of relations, and who will use the appointment Brussels at Harvard to do research and teach a course on issues of relevance to the future of March 31, 2009 US-European relations. During the spring “Can the EU Build Political Identity and term 2009 Dominique Moisi from Paris held Legitimacy?” the professorship and taught a course on “The Speakers: Furio Cerutti, professor of political Geopolitics of Emotions” in the Department philosophy, University of Florence; co-editor, of Government and co-chaired a seminar The Search for a European Identity: Values, Policies (Routledge, 2008); Sonia Lucarelli, on “European Foreign Policies” in the same senior researcher and lecturer, University of department and Harvard Kennedy School. Bologna; co-editor, The Search for a European Identity: Values, Policies (Routledge, 2008) The Program administers and supports the Fritz Thyssen Fellows, the Schumpeter Fellows, as Discussants: Jean Leca, emeritus professor of politics, Sciences Po, Paris; Vivien Schmidt, well as Visiting Scholars who work in the field Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, of transatlantic relations. Boston University April 1, 2009 PROGRAM ON U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS

“Turkey and the European Union” The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations enables Speaker: Mario Zucconi, professor of political outstanding scholars and practitioners to science, University of Rome/Princeton conduct independent research on topics University in contemporary bilateral relations and to Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Turkey and the Modern World participate in an ongoing dialogue on those topics with other members of Harvard May 6, 2009 University and the greater Cambridge and Boston communities. The program “The Future of the EURO” was founded in 1980 on the belief that the Speakers: Jeffry A. Frieden, Faculty Associate; Stanfield Professor of International Peace, United States and Japan have become so Department of Government, Harvard interdependent that the problems they face University; Andrew Martin, research affiliate, urgently require cooperation. The program’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European intellectual mandate has been broad since its Studies, Harvard University inception and has included: US-Japan security PAUL-HENRI SPAAK LECTURE SERIES and economic relations; contemporary Japanese politics, economy, society, and culture; common September 24, 2008 problems of advanced capitalist democracies; international relations of East Asia; the “A Letter from Brussels to the Next President of globalization of Japan’s popular culture; the rise the United States” Speaker: José Manuel Barroso, president, of civil society in Asia; and global governance of European Commission trade, environment, and public health issues.

February 19, 2009 Each year, the program hosts academics, “The State of German Politics and International government officials, business people, and Affairs” journalists, and awards several advanced Speaker: Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, minister research fellowships to scholarly applicants who president of North Rhine Westphalia have outstanding research credentials. Co-hosted by the Bertelsmann Foundation U.S.A. and co-sponsored by the German-American While in residence at Harvard for the academic Business Council, Washington, DC year, associates take part in the seminars, roundtables, and other functions of the Science and International Affairs, and Harvard program; attend classes and other activities in Kennedy School the Harvard community; present the results of their research in public panels; and prepare October 7, 2008 research reports that are published as the “Japan’s Motorcycle Wars: Uncovering the Hidden Occasional Papers of the Program on U.S.-Japan History of Failure in Business” Relations. Although most associates are from Jeffrey Alexander, assistant professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Parkside either Japan or the United States, the program has also included individuals from a variety of Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet East Asian and European countries. Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University During the academic year, the program invites Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of leading commentators on issues in US-Japan Japanese Studies relations to speak at a weekly luncheon seminar series that is open to the public. The October 22, 2008 seminars are attended by about 50 faculty “The 2008 Presidential Election: What’s at members, researchers, graduate students, and Stake?” undergraduates from Harvard University, Michael S. Dukakis, Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University, and Democratic Party Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the nominee for president of the United States, 1988 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Co-sponsored by Center for American Political University, and other neighboring institutions, Studies (CAPS), Center for Public Leadership, as well as interested members of the wider Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard College community. Democrats

STAFF October 27, 2008 “The Present Crisis: Where Are We Headed?” Susan J. Pharr, director, Edwin O. Reischauer Ichiro Fujisaki, ambassador extraordinary and Professor of Japanese Politics plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of Shinju Fujihira, associate director America William Nehring, program coordinator Co-sponsored by WCFIA Fellows Program, Lianna Kushi, research assistant WCFIA US Foreign Policy Seminar, Harvard Jennifer Noveck, research assistant International Relations Council, the Harvard Japan Society, Harvard College Japan Initiative, U.S.-JAPAN SEMINAR SERIES and Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Susan J. Pharr October 28, 2008 September 23 “Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies “The Powers to Lead” for the Twenty-First Century” Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Ulrike Schaede, professor of Japanese business, Service Professor; Sultan of Omar Professor of University of California San Diego International Relations Discussant: Jun Kurihara, senior fellow, Ash Co-sponsored by WCFIA US Foreign Policy Institute for Democratic Governance and Seminar Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by Ash Institute for Democratic September 30, 2008 Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy “China’s ‘Energy Rise’ and the New Geopolitics of School Oil” Mikkal Herberg, BP senior research fellow for November 13, 2008 international energy, The Pacific Council on International Policy “The Short, Strange Life of Japan’s ‘Values Diplomacy’” David Leheny, Henry Wendt III ‘55 Professor Co-sponsored by Asia Center, Fairbank Center of East Asian Studies, Princeton University for Chinese Studies, Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP), Belfer Center for Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 73 November 18, 2008 the US and Japan” “Why Apologize? Japan’s ‘History Problem’ in Asia” Leonard Schoppa, professor of politics, Alexis Dudden, associate professor of history, University of Virginia University of Connecticut. Jennifer Lind, Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group, assistant professor of government, Dartmouth sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of College Japanese Studies and co-sponsored by Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Co-sponsored by Asia Center, Korea Institute, and Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies February 10, 2009 “The End of Postwar Politics in Japan” December 2, 2008 Jiro Yamaguchi, professor and vice dean, Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University; president, “Yankee Capitalist Go Home! Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1930s Japan” Japanese Political Science Association Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund February 13, 2009 Professor of History, Harvard University “North Korean Opens” Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Stephan M. Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Japanese Studies Krause Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific December 9, 2008 Studies, University of California, San Diego “Life in the Mountains: Images of the Past, Co-sponsored by Kim Koo Forum, Korea Institute Lessons for the Future” Scott Schnell, associate professor of February 17, 2009 anthropology, University of Iowa “Economic Inequality and Social Stratification in Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor, professor Contemporary Japan” of anthropology and Japanese studies; chair, Yoshimichi Sato, Distinguished Professor and Department of Anthropology, Harvard director, the Center for the Study of Social University Stratification and Inequality, Tohoku University Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Moderator: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University December 15, 2008 February 24, 2009 “Stabilizing the US-Japan-China Triangle” Mike M. Mochizuki, associate professor of “The Global Financial Crisis and East Asia: political science and international affairs; Japan- Testing the Regional Financial Architecture” U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston William W. Grimes, associate professor of Sigur, George Washington University international relations; director, Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Co-sponsored by Asia Center and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies February 3, 2009 March 3, 2009 “President Barack Obama and America’s Key Challenges in Asia” Japan and the Global Environmental Crisis Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science, University of “Intensity and Sectoral-based Approach for Michigan; visiting fellow in foreign policy Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions” studies, The Brookings Institution Reiko Nakamura, professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) Discussant: Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, “Role of Energy Efficiency and De-carbonization Harvard University of Energy” Akio Koike, Tokyo Electric Power Company Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (TEPCO)

February 6, 2009 “International Cooperation and Integration of Different Carbon Emissions Trading Systems” “Greener Grass and Local Civic Engagement: The Hidemasa Nishiyama, Ministry of Economy, Effects of Housing Market Structure on Politics in Trade and Industry (METI)” Discussant: Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. April 21, 2009 Boas Professor of International Economics, “Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Harvard University Politics of Modern Japan” March 12, 2009 Eiko Maruko Siniawer, assistant professor of history, Williams College “Japan and Modernity: From History to Theory” Discussant: Richard J. Samuels, Ford Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of International Professor of Political Science, History, Columbia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

March 17, 2009 April 28, 2009 Civil Society and Social Change in the US and Japan “The Rise of Legalism in Japan’s Foreign Trade Politics” “Financial Disruption and Grassroots Saadia M. Pekkanen, Job and Gertrud Community Development in the United States” Tamaki Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of Shiho Nishiyama, associate professor, Graduate International Studies; adjunct professor of law, School of Sustainable Society, University of University of Washington Yamanashi “How Governments and NGOs Can Support April 29, 2009 Crime Victims” “Identity Politics and Territorial Disputes in East Kenta Namba, National Police Agency Asia” “How the Media Portrays AIDS Patients in the Yong wook Ryu, PhD candidate, Department of US and Japan” Government, Harvard University Takaaki Nishiyama, Asahi Shimbun Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group, Discussant: Susan J. Pharr sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and co-sponsored by Program April 3, 2009 on U.S.-Japan Relations “The US-Japan Alliance: A Fifty Year Perspective” Lt. Gen. Bruce A. Wright (ret.), former April 30, 2009 commander of US Forces Japan and 5th Air Japan in Asia: Diplomacy, Strategy, and Politics Force, Yokota Air Base, Japan (2005–2008) Moderator: Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II “Fear of Diplomacy: Japan on the Margin at the Research Professor of Social Sciences, Harvard Bandung Conference” University Jessamyn Abel, advanced research fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations April 7, 2009 “Future Prospects of Japan’s Defense Policy and “Why Are the Japanese Living Longer?” the US-Japan Alliance” Ichiro Kawachi, professor of social Tetsuya Mizuno, Yomiuri Shimbun epidemiology; chair, Department of Society, “Japan’s Constitutional Revision Debate, History Human Development, and Health, Harvard Problem, and Chinese and Korean Threat School of Public Health Perceptions of Japan” Co-sponsored by Department of Society, Human Yong wook Ryu, PhD candidate, Department of Development, and Health, Harvard School of Government, Harvard University Public Health Discussant: Thomas U. Berger, associate professor of international relations, Boston April 14, 2009 University “Lessons from Japan for a Troubled World: May 5, 2009 Finance, Economics, and Politics” Robert Alan Feldman, managing director, Challenges and Promises of American Capitalism Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd.; Thierry Porté, research associate, Program “Credit Risk Management and the Current on U.S.-Japan Relations; former president and Economic Turmoil in the US” CEO, Shinsei Bank, Ltd. Nobuhiro Hayashi, Ministry of Finance “Strategies of US Oil Companies in the Refinery Sector”

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 75 Shigeru Kikuchi, Idemitsu Kosan Company Akio Koike, Tokyo Electric Power Company “Real Estate Investments in US Green Buildings: Tetsuya Mizuno, Yomiuri Shimbun Lessons for Japan” Reiko Nakamura, National Graduate Institute Kazuji Tanikawa, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and for Policy Studies Banking Corporation Kenta Namba, National Police Agency Discussant: William W. Grimes, associate Hidemasa Nishiyama, Ministry of Economy, professor of international relations and director, Trade and Industry Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University Shiho Nishiyama, Yamanashi University May 7, 2009 Takaaki Nishiyama, Asahi Shimbun Reforming Japanese Capitalism Thierry Porté, JC Flowers & Co. Atsuki Shibuya, Japan Bank for International “Economic Crisis and Rising labor Market Cooperation Inequality in Japan and Korea” Takashi Shimada, Tokyo Gas Company Jiyeoun Song, advanced research fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Jiyeoun Song, advanced research fellow Kazuji Tanikawa, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and “The Changes in Human Resources Management Banking Company in Japanese Companies” Takashi Shimada, Tokyo Gas Company PROJECT ON JUSTICE, WELFARE, AND “Rethinking Performance Measurement and ECONOMICS (JWE) Management of Japanese and US Public Financial Institutions” Established in June 2001, the Project on Atsuki Shibuya, Japan Bank for International Justice, Welfare, and Economics (JWE) fosters Cooperation scholarly research and teaching by faculty and Discussant: Pepper Culpepper, associate graduate students on issues at the intersection professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School of economics, other social sciences, law, and ethics. The main focus of the initiative May 8, 2009 is to support the work of younger scholars “Political Upheaval in Japan: The Crisis of the that encompasses and integrates ethical, LDP?” political, and economic dimensions of human Robert Pekkanen, associate professor of development. To meet this aim, JWE awards Japanese Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington dissertation fellowships and research grants each year to graduate students whose research Moderator: Susan J. Pharr topics are relevant to the work of the project. Sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of JWE also hosts a variety of formal and informal Japanese Studies and co-sponsored by Program on U.S.-Japan Relations events to foster a community of scholars whose research and knowledge connects the study DISTINGUISHED VISITOR LECTURE of freedom, justice, and economics to human welfare and development. March 12, 2009 Anchored in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, “Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory” JWE also includes professors and students Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law History, Columbia University School, and other schools of the University. The Discussant: David Blackbourn, Coolidge Provost’s Office provides general oversight of Professor of History and director, Minda the Project, which is housed at the Weatherhead de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Center. Harvard University ASSOCIATES FACULTY COMMITTEE

Jessamyn Abel, advanced research fellow Chair: (through December 2008), Amartya Sen, Liv Coleman, advanced research fellow Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Economics and Philosophy Departments, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Ministry of Finance Harvard University Shigeru Kikuchi, Idemitsu Kosan Company (starting January 2009) Walter Johnson, Rugemeleza Nshala, SJD candidate, Harvard Winthrop Professor of History and Professor Law School of African and African American Studies, Kristi Olson, PhD candidate, Department of Harvard University Philosophy Phillippe Aghion Laura Tach, PhD candidate, sociology and Beatriz Armendariz social policy Alison Frank RESEARCH FELLOWS Benjamin Friedman Roland Fryer Eric Budish, PhD candidate, Department of Jerry Green Economics Jennifer Hochschild Sean Ingham, PhD candidate, Department of Government James Kloppenberg Noam Maggor, PhD candidate, Graduate Michael Kremer Program in the History of American Daryl J. Levinson Civilization Jane Mansbridge Sabrina Peric, PhD candidate, Department of Frank Michelman Anthropology Sendhil Mullainathan Claire Schwartz, PhD candidate, Department Martha Minow of Government Nancy Rosenblum Heidi Williams, PhD candidate, Department of Alvin Roth Economics Emma Rothschild GRANT RECIPIENTS Michael Sandel Thomas Scanlon JWE also offers travel and research grants to Tommie Shelby fellows. Fellows were invited to apply for funds Beth A. Simmons (up to $2,500) for travel to conferences, research Dennis Thompson assistance, and research trips. Laurence Tribe Ori Aronson Richard Tuck Corina Graif DISSERTATION FELLOWS April Kimmel Rugemeleza Nshala Since its inception, JWE has awarded 58 Laura Tach dissertation fellowships and 25 research SEMINARS grants to graduate students in the fields of anthropology, economics, government, health During the academic year, the Project on policy, history, history of American civilization Justice, Welfare, and Economics held regular law, philosophy, sociology, and social policy. dinner seminars for Fellows, faculty, and invited Eight dissertation fellowships and six research guests. grants were awarded to graduate students for 2008–2009. The award recipients were in the October 14, 2008 fields of anthropology, economics, government, “The ‘Negro Fever,’ ‘The South,’ and the health policy, history of American civilization, Ignominious Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave law, philosophy, and sociology. Trade” Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History Ori Aronson, S.J.D. candidate, Harvard Law and Professor of African and African American School Studies, Harvard University Alison Comfort, PhD candidate, health policy November 11, 2008 Corina Graif, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology “Beyond the Paternalism Debate: The New Simone Ispa-Landa, PhD candidate, Behavioral Law and Economics” Department of Sociology Christine Jolls, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization, Yale April Kimmel, PhD candidate, health policy

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 77 University APRIL 15, 2009 Discussant: Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurer Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Opening Remarks: December 4, 2008 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African American “Social Choice and the Theory of Justice” Studies, Harvard University. Drew Gilpin Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Faust, president of Harvard University and Professor, Departments of Economics and Lincoln Professor of History Philosophy, Harvard University Session I March 19, 2009 “The Uncertain Politics of Multiracialism in the “Debt, Depression, and Development” United States” Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne History and Affairs, Harvard University Professor of Government, and professor of “The New Deal Was a Good Idea: Let’s Give It a African and African American Studies, Harvard Try This Time” University Linda Gordon, professor of history, New York April 15, 2009 University Chair: Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford “Reflections on the JWE conference ‘What Just Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard Happened? What’s Next?’” University Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Departments of Economics and Session II Philosophy, Harvard University “The Crisis as an Opportunity for Structural April 27, 2009 Change: Where Should We Focus our Political “Genesis of Justice: Boston Cops, Black Ministers, Energy?” and Youth Violence” Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman and International Affairs, Yale University Professor of Sociology, Harvard University “Nationalize the Banks, Democratize the Nation” October 11, 2008 A.J. Julius, professor of philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles “Gender Inequality and Global Justice” Chair: Christine Desan, professor of law, Stephan Klasen, chair, Development Harvard Law School Economics, University of Göttingen Session III November 14, 2008 “Constitutions and Social Rights” “Intellectual Value at Risk” Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Professor, Harvard Law School Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, March 19, 2009 Berkeley “Why Is There No Welfare State in America?” “A Nation of Jailers? What Does the Phenomenon James Kloppenberg, Harvard College professor of ‘Mass Incarceration’ Say About the Quality and David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of of American Democracy at This Historical American History, Harvard University Moment?” Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the May 6, 2009 Social Sciences, Brown University “World Distribution of Income.” Chair: Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley Sir Anthony Atkinson, former professor of University Professor, Harvard Law School political economy, Cambridge University, and warden of Nuffield College, Oxford University STUDENT PROGRAMS CONFERENCES STAFF

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? WHAT’S NEXT?: AN Steven Levitsky, director, professor of INTERDISCIPLINARY LOOK AT THE CURRENT government, Department of Government ECONOMIC CRISIS Anthony Shenoda, GSA representative on the Center’s Executive Committee Erez Manela, undergraduate student programs Giacamo Ponzetto, Department of Economics director, assistant professor of history October 3, 2008 Clare Putnam, student programs coordinator “Labor Policy and Labor-Market Strategies of GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES PROGRAM White-Collar Professionals in the Soviet Union” Diana Kudayarova, Department of History The Weatherhead Center selected twenty- October 10, 2008 seven Graduate Students Associates (GSAs) in 2008–2009. These students came from the Presentation of dissertation on heath and medical care, behavioral political economy, experimental Departments of Anthropology, Anthropology social science; econometrics, and the dynamics of and Middle East Studies, Economics, conflict and cooperation Government, History, Health Policy, and Social Marcus Alexander, Department of Government Policy. On a couple of Fridays, instead of a October 17, 2008 GSA presentation, Weatherhead Center Faculty “Reputation and War Termination: An Approach Associates gave professionalization talks to based on Psychology and Behavioral Economics” GSAs on various topics of interest. Lili Zhang, Department of Government

Funds were made available by the Weatherhead October 24, 2008 Center to Graduate Student Associates on a “Bridging Disciplines” competitive basis for short-term travel for Discussion with Professors Emmanuel dissertation research, for participation in K. Akyeampong (History), Liz Perry conferences, and for other expenses directly (Government) and Steve Caton (Anthropology) on bridging disciplines related to a GSA’s dissertation research. In 2008–2009, some Graduate Student Associates October 31, 2008 used these funds to present papers at the annual “Economics of health systems and the meetings of the American Political Science effectiveness of Health Development Assistance in Association, the American Anthropology Ghana” Association, and the Asian Studies Association. Karen Grépin, Department of Health Policy Graduate Student Associates supported the November 7, 2008 Center’s Undergraduate Associates by serving “Building Modern Cities: Development, Space as mentors to thesis-writing seniors and by and Power in Urban China” attending their thesis presentations in the Meg Rithmire, Department of Government spring. November 14, 2008

GSA SEMINAR SERIES “How Locals have Encountered and Seen the National sSate in a North China Village” Zongze Hu, Department of Anthropology September 2, 2008 November 21, 2008 “Explaining Behaviors of Regional Nuclear Powers” “The Rules of Engagement: Eomen’s Rights and the Determinants of Secularist-Islamist Relations” Vipin Narang, Department of Government Sarah Shehabuddin, Department of September 9, 2008 Government Weatherhead Center GSA Program Orientation December 5, 2008 Lunch “Diverse Diversities: The Configuration of September 19, 2008 Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Twenty-three European Countries” Professors Erez Manela (History) and Steve Christopher Bail, Department of Sociology Levitsky (Government) speaking about the job market, campus visits, interviewing, and December 12, 2008 publishing “International Migration and the State: September 26, 2008 Explaining Immigration Policy Regimes of Wealthy, Democratic Countries” “The Role of Partisanship and Voters’ Suzanna Chapman, Department of Asymmetric Information in the Political Economy of Trade Policy” Government

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 79 January 30, 2009 April 3, 2009 “Grassroots Organizations in the 2005: Anti- “Healing, Pilgrimage, and Spirituality at the Japan movement in China” Sanctuary of Lourdes, France” Min Zhou, Department of Sociology Garner Gollatz, Department of Anthropology February 6, 2009 April 10, 2009 “Demilitarization, Demobilization, and “The Encounters that Coptic Orthodox Christians Reintegration of Insurgents in Colombia” in Egypt have with the Miraculous” Alex Fattal, Department of Anthropology Anthony Shenoda, Department of Anthropology and Middle East Studies February 13, 2009 April 17, 2009 Presentation of her dissertation research on the political economy of service provision in the Presentation of his dissertation research on the Middle East and the impact of increased basic role of trust in the business and military relations service provision by Islamic groups on the quality of the British Empire and reach of government services Ian Klaus, Department of History Anya Vodopyanov, Department of Government April 24, 2009 February 20, 2009 “Explaining Variation in the terms of Sovereign Presentation of her research on comparative Debt Restructurings with Private Creditors in the ethno-racial politics, civil conflict and political Post-WWII Era” violence in Northern Ireland, Brazil, and the Rebecca Nelson, Department of Government United States Brenna Marea Powell, Department of May 1, 2009 Government and Social Policy Presentation of her dissertation research on the February 27, 2009 intersections of violence, identity and primary resource extraction in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s “The United States’ efforts against the Bribery ethnographic present, and in its history of Foreign Public Officials by Multinational Sabrina Peri, Department of Anthropology Corporations wishing to do Business Abroad, 1975–1997” May 8, 2009 Vernie Oliveiro, Department of History “State Formation, Politics, Violence, and U.S. February 29, 2009 Influence in 20th Century Colombia” Robert Karl, Department of History “Secret Weapons and Secret Diplomacy in International Relations” May 15, 2009 Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky, Department of Presentation of her research on the implications Government of the shift from state governance toward civil March 6, 2009 governance in industrial regulation and the differential effects of developed and developing “The Political Economy of Social Stratification: countries Varieties of Class Structure in Post-Industrial and Claire Schwartz, Department of Government Newly Industrialized Societies” Sanjay Pinto, Department of Sociology and GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES Social Policy Marcus Alexander, PhD candidate, March 13, 2009 Department of Government “An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Christopher Bail, PhD candidate, Department American Human Rights Activism, focusing on of Sociology the Anglo-American Humanitarian Movements Suzanna Chapman, PhD candidate, that Arose in Response to Crises in Armenia, Department of Government Russia, and the Congo Free State between 1880 and 1920” Alex Fattal, PhD candidate, Department of Ann Marie Wilson, Department of History Anthropology. Garner Gollatz, PhD candidate, Department of March 20, 2009 Anthropology “How Status Considerations affect the Karen Grépin, PhD candidate, Department of Calculations of States in International Politics” Health Policy Jonathan Renshon, PhD candidate, Zongze Hu, PhD candidate, Department of Department of Government Anthropology Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky, PhD candidate, SIDNEY R. KNAFEL FELLOWSHIP: Department of Government Diana Kudayarova, PhD candidate, Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky, PhD candidate, Department of History Department of Government Robert Karl, PhD candidate, Department of Hartley R. Rogers Fellowship: History Giacomo Ponzetto, PhD candidate, Ian Klaus, PhD candidate, Department of Department of Economics History Weatherhead Center Dissertation Completion Sreemati Mitter, PhD candidate, Department Fellowship: of History Nico Slate, PhD candidate, Department of Rebecca Nelson, PhD candidate, Department of History Government PRE-DISSERTATION, MID-DISSERTATION GRANT Vernie Oliveiro, PhD candidate, Department of RECIPIENTS History Sabrina Peri, PhD candidate, Department of The Center awarded eleven pre- and mid- Anthropology dissertation grants and four foreign language Sanjay Pinto, PhD candidate, Department of grants in 2008–2009 to Harvard doctoral degree Sociology and Social Policy candidates who were in the early to middle Giacamo Ponzetto, PhD candidate, stages of dissertation research or language study Department of Economics for their projects related to international affairs. Brenna Marea Powell, PhD candidate, In most cases, the grants were used during the Department of Government and Social Policy summer for travel and other research-related Jonathan Renshon, PhD candidate, expenses. Department of Government Christopher Bail, PhD candidate in sociology, Meg Rithmire, PhD candidate, Department of researched the distortion of collective Government memory among Muslims and non-Muslims Claire Schwartz, PhD candidate, Department in the US and the UK of Government Amy Catalinac, PhD candidate in government, Sarah Shehabuddin, PhD candidate, conducted research on the electoral politics Department of Government of national security to explain contemporary Anthony Shenoda, PhD candidate, Department Japan’s rise. of Anthropology and Middle East Studies Suzanna Chapman, PhD candidate in Anya Vodopyanov, PhD candidate, government, conducted interviews with Department of Government immigration policy-makers to examine how states select their population. Ann Wilson, PhD candidate, Department of History Paul Cruikshank, PhD candidate in the history of science, investigated the late twentieth- Lili Zhang, PhD candidate, Department of century historical transformation of the Government politics of the field of international health. Min Zhou, PhD candidate, Department of Michael James Esdaile, PhD candidate in Sociology history and Middle Eastern studies, studied DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIPS Arabic for his dissertation on the anti- imperial movements termed the “Aden Emergency” that opposed British control in The Weatherhead Center awarded three Yemen. dissertation completion fellowships, one of Alex Fattal, PhD candidate in anthropology, which is named for Sidney R. Knafel, the conducted an analysis of the demobilization chair of the Center’s Visiting Committee of insurgents in Columbia to better from 1991 to 2000 and another named after understand the cultural politics of Hartley R. Rogers, ‘81, a long-time supporter humanitarianism. of international studies at the University, was Meghan Healy, PhD candidate in history, awarded, jointly by the Graduate School of Arts conducted research on South African women’s schooling and power since 1869. and Sciences and the Weatherhead Center. Max Hirsch, PhD candidate in architecture and

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 81 urban planning, researched architectural Conference and urban planning strategies that are designed to attract and retain highly skilled • Department of History, Harvard Graduate international migrants in Frankfurt and Student Conference on International History Hong Kong. • “Ottoman Worlds” Conference Jane Hong, PhD candidate in history, examined political deportation cases of foreign-born • Conference on “Germany in the Modern Asian communists as a lens to explore the World” relationship between U.S. foreign policy in • “Ivies and the Military: Toward East Asia and domestic security measures Reconciliation” passed between1945 and 1965. Catherine Kelly, PhD candidate in political • Voices for Africa Conference: “New Horizons: science, studied Wolof in Senegal for African Education in the Twenty-First her dissertation on Franco-West African Century” relations. Katherine Mason, PhD candidate in SUMMER TRAVEL GRANTS AND THE anthropology, conducted an ethnographic UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATES PROGRAM investigation of the rebuilding of China’s disease control system in the wake of the Weatherhead Center Summer Travel Grants 2003 SARS epidemic. were awarded to Harvard undergraduates to Sreemati Mitter, PhD candidate in history support senior thesis research in international and Middle Eastern studies, studied Arabic affairs. Funds for grants awarded in 2008 and Hebrew for her dissertation on the came from the Weatherhead Foundation, relationship between Jordan and Israel in the West Bank between 1950 and 1967. the Hartley R. Rogers Family, the Maurice and Sarah Samuels Family, Adele Simmons, Vipin Narang, PhD candidate in political science, explored the sources and and the Program on Transatlantic Relations. consequences of regional power nuclear Sixteen students, representing the Departments postures by examining the India-Pakistan of Anthropology, Classics, Economics, crises that occurred both before and after Government, History, Near Eastern Languages nuclearization. and Civilizations, Psychology, Slavic Studies, Rebecca Nelson, PhD candidate in political Social Studies, received travel grants and were science, explained why some governments named Undergraduate Associates of the Center. get more debt restructurings with private creditors than others. In February 2009, the students presented their Aleksandar Sopov, PhD candidate in history findings in a Weatherhead Center sponsored and Middle Eastern studies, studied Arabic conference, the panels of which were chaired by and Albanian for his dissertation on how the competing histories of the peoples in the Faculty Associates, Harvard Academy Scholars, Balkans and Middle East influence the social or Graduate Student Associates of the Center. and political realities. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH WORKSHOPS FUNDING FOR GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCES The Weatherhead Center offered a series of The Weatherhead Center offers grants for workshops to undergraduates all focusing on Harvard graduate student conferences and various aspects of completing a thesis, including workshops. Students enrolled in a doctoral thesis topic exploration, proposal and grant program in the Graduate School of Arts writing, field research, and international travel. and Sciences or one of the professional schools can apply on a competitive basis for December 2008 financial resources for student conferences and workshops that address their interests Beth A. Simmons, director of the Weatherhead Center, gave a talk to undergraduates on selecting in international affairs. In 2008–2009 the a thesis topic, writing a prospectus, and choosing Weatherhead Center gave a grant to support the an advisor. following conferences: February 2009 • Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Steven B. Bloomfield, executive director of the Weatherhead Center, talked to undergraduates Institutional Change and Ethnic Violence in about writing a successful grant proposal and Northern Ghana. described examples of proposals and topics the Noah Nathan (Government), a Rogers Family Center might typically support. Research Fellow UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATES The Politics of Union in Europe Today

Ola Aljawhary, Samuels Family Research Chair: Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Fellow Professor of European Studies Julia Choe, Undergraduate Research Fellow of “The Emergence of ESDP: Theoretical and the Program on Transatlantic Relations Practical Explanations, 1998–2001” Killian Clarke, Rogers Family Research Fellow Julia Choe (Government and Economics), Nelli Doroshkin, Samuels Family Research Undergraduate Research Fellow of the Program Fellow on Transatlantic Relations Claire Guehenno “Secularisms: Laïcité, Laiklik, and the Idea of a Christian Heritage” Kyle Haddad-Fonda Claire Guehenno (Social Studies and Classics): Christopher Krogslund “Public Opinion and the European Commission’s Nadira Lalji, Rogers Family Research Fellow Legislative Activity in Energy Security” Joseph Luna, Rogers Family Research Fellow Nelli Doroshkin (Government and Slavic Ariadne Medler Studies), a Samuels Family Research Fellow Ana Mendy Reception and buffet dinner for Andrew Miller conference participants Noah Nathan, Rogers Family Research Fellow FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 John Sheffield, Samuels Family Research Fellow Jonathan Weigel Relations and Perceptions across Borders Leah Zamore Chair: Erez Manela, Dunwalke Associate SUMMER TRAVEL GRANT THESIS PRESENTATIONS Professor of American History; director, Undergraduate Student Programs, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATES’ CONFERENCE “The Anti-Imperialist Tradition and the FEBRUARY 19–20, 2009 Development of Sino-Arab Relations, 1955–1958” Kyle Haddad-Fonda (History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 “The Origins of Dominican Anti-Haitianismo: Welcoming remarks The Effects of the Haitian Revolution on Dominican National Identity (1791–1804)” Beth A. Simmons, director, Weatherhead Ana Mendy (History) Center for International Affairs; Clarence Dillon “Framing a New Foreign Policy: Chinese Professor of International Affairs Press Coverage of North Korea in State and The Politics of Identity and Dignity Commercialized Newspapers” Andrew Miller (Social Studies) Chair: Beth A. Simmons “For Glory, For Money: Determinants of Fascist “Identity Notions of Palestinian refugees in Intervention in the Spanish Civil War” Al-Arish after the breach of the border” Pierpaolo Barbieri (History and Government), Ola Aljawhary (Anthropology and Near Center for European Studies Undergraduate Eastern Languages and Civilizations), a Samuels Associate Family Research Fellow Global Challenges, International Institutions “Divided and Defrauded: Transborder Brokerage in a Bangladeshi Women’s Movement” Chair: Steven B. Bloomfield, executive director Nadira Lalji (Government), a Rogers Family “State of Exception: UNHCR and the Research Fellow (Involuntary) Repatriation of Refugees” Leah Zamore (Social Studies) “Play Your Cards Wisely: Revisiting Situational Ethnicity in Ghana” “The Rise of Collaborative Malaria Research at Joseph Luna (Economics and Government), a Universities” Rogers Family Research Fellow Jonathan Weigel (Social Studies): Structuring

RESEARCH PROGRAMS • WCFIA ANNUAL REPORT • 2008–2009 83 Science HARVARD INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ON CAMPUS “Looking Over Your Shoulder: Legal Precedent and Trade Disputes in the WTO” The Harvard International Relations on Christopher Krogslund (Government) Campus (IRoC) is the undergraduate student group that serves as the principal liaison Civil Conflict in the Global South between the Weatherhead Center and Harvard Chair: Jocelyn S. Viterna, assistant professor, undergraduates. IRoC promotes awareness and Departments of Sociology and Social Studies understanding of international affairs among “The Anatomy of the Iron Fist: Police Violence in undergraduates through a variety of programs, Democratic Latin America, 1985–2009” which include close collaborations with the John Sheffield (Social Studies), a Samuels Weatherhead Center and its Fellows. Family Research Fellow “Agency and Constraint: Counterinsurgency The leadership of the International Relations Strategy and International Influence in Council for 2008–2009 included: Guatemala, 1978–1983” Ariadne Medler (Social Studies) Kyle Fishman ’09, president “Saying ‘Enough!’: Coalitional Social Movements Killian Clarke ‘09, vice president of campus and Authoritarian Regimes” outreach Killian Clarke (Social Studies and Near Eastern Courtney Leigh Blair ‘10, WCFIA Liaison Languages and Civilizations), a Rogers Family IRoC organized a number of events in the Research Fellow academic years 2008–2009 including panel UNDERGRADUATE INITIATIVE GRANTS TO discussions and seminars on international STUDENT GROUPS affairs, an annual international careers week, and an annual human rights week. During the 2008–2009 academic year, the Weatherhead Center offered undergraduates at INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ON CAMPUS EVENTS the University financial resources to organize projects on their own that addressed their interests September 15, 2008 relating to international affairs. Grants up to $1,000 were awarded to Harvard student groups Speaker Event: An Opening Days speaker event on a competitive basis. Awards could be used with Justice Richard Goldstone, a renowned South African judge and international war to support speaker series, study groups, special crimes prosecutor, and a preeminent expert on seminars with faculty, fellows, or visiting scholars, international criminal law. His speech was followed conferences with an explicit undergraduate by introductions from the IRC and WCFIA. focus, event-related publications or supplies, October 9, 2008 or any number of ideas students proposed Speaker Event: The Road to the Referendum: that would benefit the Harvard undergraduate Prospects for the Success of Sudan’s community. The following grants were awarded to Comprehensive Peace Agreement undergraduate student groups in 2008–2009: David Gressly, regional coordinator for the UN Mission in Sudan. Jennifer Leaning, • Global Initiative for Women’s Empowerment codirector, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; for SEVA Magazine professor of the practice of international health, • Harvard Association on U.S.-China Relations Department of Global Health and Population, for undergraduate symposium on U.S.-China Harvard School of Public Health. Alex de Relations Waal, Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian • Harvard Habitat for Humanity’s Salvadoran Initiative; director, Program on AIDS and Civil War Symposium Social Transformation, Social Science Research • HACIA Democracy Summit of the Americas Council; director, Justice Africa (London) • Harvard Africa Business and Investment Club September 29, 2008 Speaker Event and Case Study Presentation Speaker Event: The Global Food Crisis • Harvard Organization for Latin America’s Ray Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, “Building on Latin America” project delivered a speech on the origins and impacts of • Harvard Undergraduate Global Health the global food crisis, and what ordinary people Forum’s Global Health Week could do to help. October 23, 2008 March 16, 2009 Dinner Discussion: Terror in the Middle Kingdom’s Dinner Discussion Far West Dinesha W.V.A. Samarartne, a Sri Lankan native Dr. John Shoeberlein, director of the Harvard and human rights lawyer, discussed human rights Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, host- issues in Sri Lanka’s pressing internal conflict. ed a dinner discussion on terrorism and unrest in China’s Xinjiang Province. March 18, 2009 October 21 and 28, 2008 Dinner Discussion: “Even in Timbuktu: Economic Development in West Africa” Study Group: Conflict in the Caucasus: The Georgian Fatouma Ba and Adamu Musa, WCFIA Fellows, Conflict and the Resurgence of Russia discussed West African economic development. This two-session study group analyzed the Georgian INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WEEK conflict in the summer of 2008 and examined what Russia’s recent policies meant for the international com- April 6, 2009 munity, and whether it foreign policy posed a legitimate threat to world security. War & Genocide: The Implications of Ali Bashir’s Arrest Warrant Tim Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies; director, Davis April 7, 2009 Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Harris Financial Crisis: The Effects of the Financial Mylonas, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for Crisis on the Global Economy International and Area Studies, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, Elliott April 8, 2009 School of International Affairs, George Washington Global Health The Frontiers of Drug Discovery: University. Leonid Polyakov, WCFIA Fellow, The Challenge of Neglected Diseases Parliamentary Committee on National Security Access and ART: The Role of Multisectoral and Defense, Parliament of Ukraine. Monica Duffy Partnerships in the Case of HIV/AIDS Toft, associate professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School Socially Responsible Careers in a Global Age James Haven November 11, 2008 April 9, 2009 Special Dinner Discussion Michèle Stanners, WCFIA Fellow, hosted a Climate Change: International Coordination special dinner discussion for IRoC members on and Climate Change Brain Break Planet Earth Canada and its elections. Screenings December 12, 2008 April 10, 2009 Dinner Discussion Food & Energy Crisis: Movie Screening of Energy War Lt. Col. Craig Wills, Air Force Colonel, WCFIA Fellow, hosted a dinner discussion on the Iraq April 23, 2009 War and the future of the U.S. military. Speaker Event: “The Financial Crisis and the Future February 11, 2009 of Global Health,” Nicholas de Torrente, executive director of Doctors Dinner Discussion without Borders; PBH Visiting Fellow. Howard Trinshantha Nanayakkara, a native of Sri Zucker, former assistant director-general of the Lanka and member of Harvard’s Scholars at Risk World Health Organization (WHO); IOP Fellow Program, discussed Sri Lanka’s pressing internal conflict and his work to develop a systematic Co-sponsored with: Harvard Project for approach to resolve the issue. Sustainable Development, PBH, IOP, Harvard Premedical Society, and Harvard AIDS Coalition February 23, 2009 Dinner Discussion April 30, 2009 Dinner with WCFIA Fellows Craig Wills and Ian Dinner Discussion: “Re-Imagining Rwanda after Wallace on their careers in international affairs. 1994: A Test of Leadership” March 5, 2009 Alexis Rwabizambuga, WCFIA Fellow, dis- cussed Rwanda’s circuitous road to recovery and Dinner Discussion his personal experiences. Professor Steve Levitsky discussed U.S. Latin America Relations under the Obama Administration.

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