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FROM THE BLOG

Background to Brexit: One-Size-Fits-All Monetary Policy and the Eurozone Crisis // Jeffry A. Frieden

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Background to Brexit: How to Leave the EU // Peter A. Hall and Jeffry A. Frieden

Background to Brexit: Populism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Resentment // Bart Bonikowski

Background to Brexit is our three-part series on what Weatherhead Center scholars think about the unfolding institutional, political, and economic consequences of the June 23 United Kingdom referendum on European Union membership.

NEW BOOKS

Dara Kay Cohen // Rape During Civil War // Cornell University Press

WCFIA alum Sheena Greitens // Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence // Cambridge University Press

Postdoc fellow Sandy Hager // Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State // University of California Press

Sheila Jasanoff // The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future // W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Calestous Juma // Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies // Oxford University Press

Joshua D. Kertzer // Resolve in International Politics // Princeton University Press

Michèle Lamont, et al. // Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel // Princeton University Press

WCFIA alum Tracy Neumann // Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America // University of Pennsylvania Press

Pippa Norris // Checkbook Elections? // Oxford Academic Press

Fernando Reimers, et al. // Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course // CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Kenneth S. Rogoff // The Curse of Cash // Princeton University Press

JOURNALS & WORKING PAPERS

Sarah Dryden-Peterson, et al. // Education, Conflict, and Globalisation: Guest Editors’ Introduction // Globalisation, Societies and Education

Neil Brenner // The Hinterland Urbanised? // Architectural Design

David Armitage, et al. // Longing for the Longue Durée // Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society

Jocelyn Viterna // The Organizational Complexities of Transnational Humanitarian Aid // Contemporary Sociology

James Alt and Torben Iversen // Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, & Preferences for Redistribution // American Journal of Political Science

Postdoctoral fellow Sandy Brian Hager // A Global Bond: Explaining the Safe-Haven Status of US Treasury Securities // European Journal of International Relations

Tarun Khanna, et al. // Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity’s Largest Gathering // PLOS ONE

Bart Bonikowski // Nationalism in Settled Times // Annual Review of Sociology

Laura Diaz Anadon, Alicia Harley, William C. Clark, et al. // Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

OPINION

Sarah Dryden-Peterson // Moving On? The Impact of Education for Refugees in First Asylum Countries // Norrag News

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. // Do We Want Powerful Leaders? // Project Syndicate

Stephen Walt, et al. // The Case for Offshore Balancing // Foreign Affairs

David Keith, et al. // Toward a More Reflective Planet // Project Syndicate

WCFIA alum John-Philippe Dedieu // Vital Rituals of the Afro-Cuban Underground // The New Yorker

Stephen Walt // The Case Against Peace // Foreign Policy

WCFIA Transatlantic Program director Manuel Muñiz // Brexit Exemplifies the Anti-Elite Era // Social Europe

Peter A. Hall // The Roots of Brexit: 1992, 2004, and European Union Expansion // Foreign Affairs

Calestous Juma // Innovation and Its Discontents // Project Syndicate

Ricardo Hausmann // Football, Brexit, and Us // Project Syndicate

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. // Lying and Leadership // Project Syndicate

Jennifer Hochschild // Three Puzzles in the Study of Inequality // Items: Insights from the Social Sciences

WCFIA alum John-Philippe Dedieu // Paris After Orlando: Gay Prisoners Of Racial Prejudice // Huffington Post

Orlando Patterson // The Secret of Jamaica’s Runners // The New York Times

Dani Rodrik // Turkey’s Baffling Coup // Project Syndicate

WCFIA alum Shannon K. O’Neil // Argentina and Brazil Grow Together: Why the Countries Should Embrace Trade—and Each Other // Foreign Affairs

Calestous Juma // Globalization As We Know It Has Failed. Africa Has an Alternative // World Economic Forum

WCFIA alum Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. // The Wrong Lessons of the Iraq War // Project Syndicate

Kenneth S. Rogoff // An Interview with Kenneth S. Rogoff, author of The Curse of Cash // Princeton University Press

Calestous Juma // Africa’s Post-Brexit Opportunity // Project Syndicate

Ricardo Hausmann / Through the Venezuelan Looking Glass // Project Syndicate

Richard Cooper // Upbeat Outlook for China's Outbound Investments // Caixin Online

Dani Rodrik // The False Economic Promise of Global Governance // Project Syndicate

Fernando Reimers // China and Mexico Want Peace, As Do We // Huffington Post

Calestous Juma // Rebooting African Economies: The Place of Science and Technology in Society // Africa Policy Review

David Keith, et al. // Implications of the Paris Agreement for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Geoengineering [PDF] // Viewpoints, Harvard Kennedy School

AUDIO & VIDEO

Kenneth S. Rogoff and WCFIA alum Dominique Moisi // After Brexit, Is The West Coming Apart? // On Point, NPR

Sheila Jasanoff // Twin Engines of Truth? How Science and Law Interact to Construct Our World // Up Close, University of Melbourne

Iris Bohnet // Iris Bohnet on Finding and Keeping Great Talent // Curious Minds with Gayle Allen

Kenneth S. Rogoff // Rogoff Warns of the Dangers of Populism // Business Matters, BBC World Service

Fernando Reimers // The World Course // Harvard EdCast, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Timothy Colton // Russia Beyond Putin - Timothy Colton // American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Jacqueline Bhabha // Rescue & Reintegration of Trafficked Children in India // YouTube, Harvard FXB Center

David Keith // Climate Hackers: One Man’s Plan to Stop Global Warming By Shooting Particles into the Atmosphere // The Verge

QUOTED

Ricardo Hausmann // Must-Read: Ricardo Hausmann: Overdosing on Heterodoxy Can Kill You // Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Michael Puett // What Do Millennial Students Really Need? More Confucius // Chronicle of Higher Education

Caroline Elkins // A Reckoning: Colonial Atrocities and Academic Reputations on Trial in a British Courtroom // Chronicle of Higher Education

Matthew Bunn // 20 Years On, UN Waits for Working Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty // U.S. News and World Report

Michèle Lamont // What Makes Teams Tick // Harvard Magazine

Mary C. Waters // Muslim Immigrants Have No Trouble Assimilating, Mr. Trump // Bloomberg View

WCFIA Senior Associate Karl Kaiser // Britain Votes to Leave EU; Cameron Plans to Step Down // The New York Times

Peter Hall and Maya Jasanoff // After Brexit, A Changed Future // Harvard Gazette

Diane Davis // Transforming City Transportation Landscapes Through Policy: An Interview with Harvard Professor Diane Davis (Part 1) // Institute for Transportation & Development Policy

Frank Dobbin // #1 Reason that Diversity Programs Fail // Fortune

WCFIA alum Naunihal Singh // ‘FaceTime Is a Cyberweapon’ and Other Lessons About Digital Age Coups // Foreign Policy

Dustin Tingley // Harvard Portrait: Dustin Tingley // Harvard Magazine

Richard Cooper // U.S. Rate Hike May Have Positive Impact on Korean Economy // Yonhap News

Calestous Juma // When People Become Innovation’s Greatest Threats // The Conversation

Fernando Reimers // Harvard Professor Creates A Course for the World // Harvard Gazette

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