Tag: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

  • Nation & World

    Excellence honored

    The American Political Science Association has recognized three Harvard affiliates for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics.

    2 minutes
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    Harvard and Banco Santander announce letter of intent

    Harvard University and Banco Santander announced a letter of intent today that will enable Harvard to support master’s candidates and visiting fellows from China through participation in Banco Santander’s Marco Polo Program.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Bringing faiths together

    Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions celebrates its 50th anniversary of mining the commonalities of faith.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard in Japan

    As President Drew Faust becomes the eighth Harvard president to visit Japan, faculty members are sending back dispatches about cultural and historical aspects of her visit.

    22 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Chronicler of history’s sweep

    Erez Manela’s study of 20th century international history ranges from Woodrow Wilson’s advocacy of self-determination in the 1910s to ending smallpox in the 1970s.

    3 minutes
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    McElroy says it’s time to stop seeing global warming as political issue

    Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies and director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment, is among the scientists who since the 1970s have been using paleoclimatic data…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    The myth of American isolationism

    American diplomacy in the 1920s was subtle but ambitious and effective, instead of isolationist, argues Harvard Assistant Professor of Government Bear F. Braumoeller. American policy in the years leading up…

    1 minute
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    Which side are you on?

    Andrew Kydd is an assistant professor of government at Harvard University who has developed an interesting theory about mediation. As Kydd writes in the introduction to a working paper, “Mediators…

    1 minute
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    Indivisible territory and ethnic war

    Monica Duffy Toft is assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and assistant director of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard’s…

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