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
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations." New Dimensions of World Politics. Ed. Geoffrey L. Goodwin, and Andrew Linklater. London: Routledge, 2025.
Bosché, Michelle, Rachel Krust, Archon Fung, and Aditya S. Pawar. "Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement." American Journal of Public Health 115.4 (April 2025): 500-505.
Palmiano Federer, Julia, Monica Giannone, Brian Mandell, and Elan Kogutt. "Why It Worked: Moving from Success to Effectiveness in Conflict Resolution and Peace Negotiations." Negotiation Journal (2025).
Paternina-Caicedo, Angel, Oscar Espinosa, Sangini S. Sheth, Nathaniel Hupert, and Soroush Saghafian. "Excess Mortality Rate in Black Children Since 1950 in the United States: A 70-Year Population-Based Study of Racial Inequalities." Annals of Internal Medicine (25 March 2025).
Bradt, Jacob T. and Joseph E. Aldy. "Private Benefits from Public Investment in Climate Adaptation and Resilience." March 24, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump Is Not a Revolutionary." Foreign Policy, March 17, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "What I Got Wrong About Trump’s Second Term." Foreign Policy, March 10, 2025.
Sinha, Jayant, Robert Stavins, Jessica Seddon, and Arunabha Ghosh. "Energy, Climate, Growth." Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Growth. Ed. Suman Bery, Kapil Kapoor, and Jean-Louis Arcand. Singapore: Springer, 2025, 1-18.
Lawrence, Robert Z., and Homi Kharas. "Technology, Policy, Jobs; Multilateralism: Geopolitics, Governance, and the Global Commons." Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Growth. Ed. Suman Bery, Kapil Kapoor, and Jean-Louis Arcand. Singapore: Springer, 2025.
Aldy, Joseph E., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Robert N. Stavins. "Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump’s Concert of Kingpins Won’t Work." Foreign Policy, March 3, 2025.
Lipschitz, Jessica M., Sidian Lin, Soroush Saghafian, Chelsea K. Pike, and Katherine E. Burdick. "Digital phenotyping in bipolar disorder: Using longitudinal Fitbit data and personalized machine learning to predict mood symptomatology." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 151.3 (March 2025): 434-447.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Is DOGE Sure It Wants to Fire These People?" The Atlantic, March 1, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Yes, America Is Europe’s Enemy Now." Foreign Policy, February 21, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "America Is Its Own Worst Enemy." Foreign Policy, February 12, 2025.
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem. "How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?" British Journal of Political Science 55.e4 (10 February 2025): 1-19.
Spence, Jennifer, John Holdren, and Fran Ulmer. "Arctic research cooperation in a turbulent world." Science 387.6734 (7 February 2025): 598-600.
Walt, Stephen. "What IR Theory Predicts About Trump 2.0." Foreign Policy, February 3, 2025.
Jameson, Jacob C., Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman, and Nicole Hodgson. "Variation in batch ordering of imaging tests in the emergency department and the impact on care delivery." Health Services Research 60.1 (February 2025): e14406.
Harley, Alicia G., and William C. Clark. "Building Capacity to Measure Sustainability: Lessons from scholarship and practice." Sustainability Science Program Working Paper Series, January 29, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "This Could Be ‘Peak Trump’." Foreign Policy, January 27, 2025.
Dynan, Karen, and Doug Elmendorf. "Don’t look to efficiency for big deficit reductions." What awaits the Department of Government Efficiency? vlog experts on prospects for a radical new initiative, January 15, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Joe Biden’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card." Foreign Policy, January 14, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "A User’s Guide to ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’." Foreign Policy, January 8, 2025.
Coots, Madison, Soroush Saghafian, David M. Kent, and Sharad Goel. "A Framework for Considering the Value of Race and Ethnicity in Estimating Disease Risk." Annals of Internal Medicine 178.1 (January 2025): 98-107.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump Can’t Bully the Entire World." Foreign Policy, December 30, 2024.
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem, Jonathan Renshon, Jessica L. P. Weeks, and Chagai M. Weiss. "The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States." American Political Science Review (12/23/2024): 1-16.
Saghafian, Soroush, and Lihi Idan. "Effective Generative AI: The Human-Algorithm Centaur." Harvard Data Science Review Special Issue 5 (December 19, 2024).
Walt, Stephen. "Austria Should Be America’s European Model." Foreign Policy, December 11, 2024.
Búzás, Zoltán I., and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "Race, shaming, and international human rights." American Journal of Political Science (9 December 2024).
Dynan, Karen, and Douglas Elmendorf. "Fiscal policy and the pandemic-era surge in US inflation: Lessons for the future." Understanding the COVID Era Inflation, Peterson Institute for International Economics, December 2024.
Summers, Lawrence H., Marijn A. Bolhuis, and Judd Cramer. "The True Cost of Living." Finance & Development. December 2024.
Dynan, Karen, and Louise Sheiner. "GDP as a Measure of Economic Well-Being." The Measure of Economies: Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change. Ed. Reinsdorf, Marshall B. and Louise Sheiner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Tarantino, Giuseppe, Cora A. Ricker, Annette Wang ... Soroush Saghafian et al. "Genomic heterogeneity and ploidy identify patients with intrinsic resistance to PD-1 blockade in metastatic melanoma." Science Advances 10.48 (29 November 2024): eadp4670.
Saghafian, Soroush, Derya Kilinic, and Stephen J. Traub. "Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue?" The Cambridge Handbook of Healthcare Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness. Ed. Shawna Grosskopf, Vivian Valdmanis, and Valentin Zelenyuk. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 612-656.
Walt, Stephen. "Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right." Foreign Policy, November 15, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The 10 Foreign-Policy Implications of the 2024 U.S. Election." Foreign Policy, November 8, 2024.
Aldy, Joseph. "How Big is the “Biggest Climate Spending Bill Ever?” Key Factors Influencing the Inflation Reduction Act’s Clean Energy Impacts." RWP24-007, November 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "10 Reasons to Be Thankful in 2024." Foreign Policy, November 28, 2024.
Buzas, Zoltan, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "Human Rights Organizations and Shaming Tactics: Using Anti-Racist Cues to Hone the Messaging." Keough School Policy Brief Series, 2024.
Jamison, Dean T., Lawrence H. Summers, et al. "Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century." The Lancet 404.10462 (October 2024): 1561-1614.
Deming, David, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence Summers. "Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market." Strengthening America’s Economic Dynamism. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Luke Pardue. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Kamala Harris Is Not a Realist. I’m Voting for Her Anyway." Foreign Policy, October 16, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Israel’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment in the Middle East." Foreign Policy, October 2, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Happy Birthday to America’s Most Underrated President." Foreign Policy, October 1, 2024.
Ackermann, Mark, Clare Amann, ...John Holdren et al. "Pan-Arctic Methane: Current Monitoring Capabilities, Approaches for Improvement, and Implications for Global Mitigation Targets." Wilson Center Polar Institute, October 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "The Questions Harris and Trump Still Need to Be Asked." Foreign Policy, September 17, 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "In International Politics, Be Careful What You Wish for." Foreign Policy, September 4, 2024.
Saghafian, Soroush. "Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach." Management Science 70.9 (September 2024): 5667-5690.
Walt, Stephen M. "On Foreign Policy, U.S. Parties Don’t Have the Power." Foreign Policy, August 26, 2024.