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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y 2008–2009 ANNUAL REPORT 1737 Cambridge Street • Cambridge, MA 02138 www.wcfia.harvard.edu 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
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