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, Joseph S. Soft Power and Great-Power Competition. Springer Singapore, 2023.
Beck, Colin J., Mlada Bukovansky, Erica Chenoweth, George Lawson, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, and Daniel P. Ritter. On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Falco, Gregory J. and Eric Rosenbach. Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Eggleston, Karen, John D. Donahue, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector: Public-Private Collaboration in China and the United States. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Danielle F. Jung and Dara Kay Cohen. Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Jung, Danielle F., and Dara Kay Cohen. Lynching and Local Justice. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Saich, Anthony. Finding Allies and Making Revolution: The Early Years of the Chinese Communist Party. Brill, 2020.
Carter, Ashton B. Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon. Dutton, 2019.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Pauline Moore. The Politics of Terror. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Walt, Stephen. The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. MacMillan, 2018.
Sherman, Wendy. Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence. PublicAffairs, 2018.
Bunn, Matthew, Martin B. Malin, William C. Potter, and Leonard Spector. Preventing Black-Market Trade in Nuclear Technology. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Burns, Nicholas, James K. Sebenius, and Robert H. Mnookin. Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level. HarperCollins, 2018.
Mainwaring, Scott. Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power. Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Westad, Arne. The Cold War: A World History. Basic Books, 2017.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? Polity, 2018.
Kalb, Marvin. Kalb, Marvin. The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia. Brookings Institution Press, 2017.
Cohen, Dara Kay. Rape During Civil War. Cornell University, 2016.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and David A. Welch. Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History. Pearson, 2016.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age. Princeton University Press, 2014.
Masoud, Tarek. Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. Cambridge University Press, June 2014.
Norton, Mary Beth, Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, and Beth Bailey. A People and A Nation: A History of the United States, 10th Edition. Cengage, 2014.
Allison, Graham, Robert D. Blackwill, and Ali Wyne. Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World. MIT Press, 2013.
Chenoweth, Erica. Political Violence. Sage, 2013.
Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Random House, 2012.
Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. Sacred and Secular: Politics and Religion Worldwide., 2nd. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Hunt, Swanee. Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security. Duke University Press, 2011.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works. Columbia University Press, 2011.
Kalb, Marvin, and Deborah Kalb. Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
Toft, Monica Duffy, Daniel Philpott, and Timothy Samuel Shah. God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics. W.W. Norton and Company, 2011.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. The Future of Power. Public Affairs, 2011.
Sewall, Sarah, Dwight Raymond, and Sally Chin. Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook. Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2010.
Toft, Monica Duffy. Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars. Princeton University Press, 2010.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Adria Lawrence. Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict. MIT Press, 2010.
Craig, Campbell, and Fredrik Logevall. America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. & Foreign Editions. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
Holdren, John P., William F. Burns, Steven Fetter, Spurgeon Keeny and 12 others. Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities. National Academy Press, April 2005.
Allison, Graham. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. Times Books/Henry Holt (subsequently published in Japanese, Russian, Korean, and Hebrew), 2004.
Hunt, Swanee. This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace. Duke University Press, 2004.
Stern, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. Ecco/Harper Collins, 2003.
Toft, Monica. The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory. Princeton University Press, 2003.
Ignatieff, Michael. Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Penguin, 2003.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S., Yukio Satoh, and Paul Wilkinson. Addressing the New International Terrorism: Prevention, Intervention, and Multilateral Cooperation. Trilateral Commission, 2003.
Carter, Ashton B., and William J. Perry. Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America, Russian Edition. Brookings Institution, 2003.
Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism (Lewis M. Branscomb (co-chair), Richard D. Klausner (co-chair), Ashton B. Carter, et al.). Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism. National Academies Press, 2002.
Holdren, John P., and the Committee on Technical Issues Related to Ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. National Academy, 2002.
Logevall, Fredrik. The Origins of the Vietnam War. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. University of California Press, 2001.