Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Harley, Alicia, N. Michele Holbrook, and William C. Clark. "Innovation for Vulnerable Farmers: Drought and Water Scarcity Adaptation Technologies." Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University, December 2015.
Liu, Zhu, Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Sai Liang, Laura Diaz Anadon, Chao Zhang, and Dabo Guan. "Four System Boundaries for Carbon Accounts." Ecological Modelling 318 (December 2015): 118-125.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Latin America's Protagonist Role in Human Rights." Sur International Journal on Human Rights, English ed. 12.22 (December 2015): 207-219.
Saich, Anthony. "The National People’s Congress: Functions and Membership." November 2015.
Allison, Graham. "The Key to Henry Kissinger's Success." Atlantic, November 27, 2015.
Ignatieff, Michael. "Messianic America: Can He Explain it?" Review of American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers (by Perry Anderson) and Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy (by David Milne), New York Review of Books, November 19, 2015.
Aldy, Joseph. "Evaluating Mitigation Effort: Tools and Institutions for Assessing Nationally Determined Contributions." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-068, November 2015.
Ruggie, John Gerard, and John F. Sherman III. "Adding Human Rights Punch to the New Lex Mercatoria: The Impact of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on Commercial Legal Practice." Journal of International Dispute Settlement 6.3 (November 2015): 455-461.
Walt, Stephen. "ISIS as Revolutionary State." Foreign Affairs. November/December 2015.
Commentary: The Social Science of Creativity and Research Practice: Physical Scientists, Take Notice
Odumosu, Toluwalogo, Jeffrey Y. Tsao, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. "Commentary: The Social Science of Creativity and Research Practice: Physical Scientists, Take Notice." Physics Today, 68.11, November 1, 2015, 8-9.
Saich, Anthony. "China's Domestic Governing Capacity: Prospects and Challenges." Assessing China's Power. Ed. Jae Ho, Chung. Palgrave Macmillan, October 2015, 41-61.
Barrett, Steven R. H., Raymond L. Speth, Sebastian D. Eastham, Irene C. Dedoussi, Akshay Ashok, Robert Malina, and David W. Keith. "Impact of the Volkswagen Emissions Control Defeat Device on US Public Health." Environmental Research Letters 10 (October 29, 2015).
Elisabeth Jean Wood and Dara Kay Cohen. "How to Counter Rape During War." New York Times, October 28, 2015.
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Recollection Bias and Its Underpinnings: Lessons from Terrorism-Risk Assessments." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-066, October 2015.
Weisenstein, D.K., David W. Keith, and J.A. Dykema. "Solar Geoengineering Using Solid Aerosol in the Stratosphere." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 15 (October 2015): 11835-11859.
Ignatieff, Michael. "Trudeau Trounces the Politics of Enmity." Financial Times, October 20, 2015.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "Adding Human Rights Punch to the New Lex Mercatoria: The Impact of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on Commercial Legal Practice." European Journal of of International Law 6.3 (October 13, 2015): 455-461.
Adams, Gordon, and Stephen M. Walt. "A Road to Damascus, via Moscow." New York Times. October 13, 2015.
Freeman, Mark C., Ben Groom, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and Adaptation to Climate Change." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences 373.2055 (October 2015).
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, Krishanu Saha, and Sheila Jasanoff. "CRISPR Democracy: Gene Editing and the Need for Inclusive Deliberation." Issues in Science & Technology. October 2015.
Allison, Graham. "U.S.-Russia Relations: What Would Henry Kissinger Do?" National Interest, September 28, 2015.
Allison, Graham. "The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?" Atlantic, September 24, 2015.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Plaza Accord, 30 Years Later." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-056, September 2015.
Risse, Mathias, and John W. Meyer. "Thinking About the World: Philosophy and Sociology." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-054, September 2015.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Is the American Century Over?" Political Science Quarterly 130.3 (September 2015): 393-400.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Latin America and the Idea of International Human Rights." Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World. Ed. Jorge I. Dominguez and Ana Covarrubias. Routledge, 2015, 349-361.
Safaei, Hossein, and David Keith. "How Much Bulk Energy Storage is Needed to Decarbonize Electricity?" Energy and Environmental Science 8.12 (2015): 3409-3417.
Bunn, Matthew. "Looking Back and Looking Forward on the Iran Deal." The Hill. September 2, 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "What Should Obama Do Next on Iran?" New York Times, September 2, 2015.
Juma, Calestous. The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "What Should Obama Do Next on Iran." New York Times, September 1, 2015.
Clark, William C. "London: A Multi-Century Struggle for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-047, August 2015.
Bunn, Matthew. "Making Life Harder for Iran's Bomb Advocates." National Interest. August 7, 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Implications of Sanctions Relief Under the Iran Agreement." Testimony Before the Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Committee, U.S. Senate, August 5, 2015.
Allison, Graham. "Iran Deal Keeps Our Military Options Open." The Boston Globe, August 5, 2015.
Allison, Graham. "Singapore Challenges the Idea that Democracy is the Best Form of Governance." World Post, August 5, 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Implications of Sanctions Relief Under the Iran Agreement." Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, August 5, 2015.
Ruggie, John Gerard, and Tamaryn Nelson. "Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-045, August 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the Military Balance in the Middle East." Testimony Before the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, August 4, 2015.
Allison, Graham. "9 Reasons to Support the Iran Deal." Atlantic, August 4, 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the Military Balance in the Middle East." Senate Committee on Armed Services, August 4, 2015.
Cohen, Dara Kay and Ragnhild Nordås. "Do States Delegate Shameful Violence to Militias? Patterns of Sexual Violence in Recent Armed Conflicts." Journal of Conflict Resolution 59.5 (August 2015): 877-898.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action." Testimony Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, July 29, 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action." Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, July 29, 2015.
Lee, Henry. "Market Forces Can't Fix Methane-Gas Emissions." National Interest, July 20, 2015.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Is Tsipras the New Kim Dae-jung?" Korea Herald, July 20, 2015.
Campante, Filipe R., and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "The Intergenerational Transmission of War." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-039, July 2015.
Temkin, Moshik. "The Great Divergence: The Death Penalty in the United States and the Failure of Abolition in Transatlantic Perspective." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-037, July 2015.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "The Energy Implications of a Nuclear Deal between the P5+1 and Iran." The Geopolitics of Energy Project, July 2015.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Deal is Historic, but the US Must Now Act to contain Iran." Financial Times, July 14, 2015.