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.
Bunn, Matthew. "Insider Threats to Nuclear Security." The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security. Ed. Christopher Hobbs, Sarah Tzinieris, and Sukesh K. Aghara. Oxford University Press, 2023, C9S1–C9N57.
Mitter, Rana. "The Chinese Global in the Long Postwar: Narratives of War, Civilization, and Infrastructure since 1945." Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order. Ed. Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay. Oxford University Press, 2023, 162-183.
Wang, Huiyao, Graham Allison, and Chen Li. "Thucydides’s Trap Revisited: Prospects for China–US Relations." Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century. Ed. Huiyao Wang, and Lu Miao. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Horn, Sebastian, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. "China’s overseas lending and the war in Ukraine." Global Economic Consequences of the War in Ukraine: Sanctions, Supply Chains and Sustainability. Ed. Luis Garicano, Dominic Rohner, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro. CEPR Press, September 2022.
Digidiki, Vasileia, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "Against the best interests of the child: the global injustice of migrant externalization." Handbook of Migration and Global Justice. Ed. Leanne Weber and Claudia Tazreiter. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 100-118.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "Corporate Globalization and the Liberal Order: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms." The Downfall of the American Order: Liberalism’s End? Ed. Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan D. Kirshner. Cornell University Press, 2021.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "global_governance.net: The Global Compact as Learning Network." Understanding Global Cooperation. Ed. Kurt Mills, and Kendall Stiles. Brill, May 2021, 139-146.
Burns, Nicholas. "Preface." The Struggle for Power: US-China Relations in the 21st Century. Ed. Leah Bitounis and Jonathon Price. Aspen Strategy Group, 2020.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The Rise of China." The Struggle for Power: US-China Relations in the 21st Century. Ed. Leah Bitounis and Jonathon Price. Aspen Strategy Group, 2020.
Allison, Graham. "The U.S.-China Strategic Competition: Clues From History." The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century. Ed. Leah Bitounis and Jonathon Price. Aspen Strategy Group, 2020.
Burns, Nicholas, and Anja Manuel. "Preface." Domestic and International (Dis)Order: A Strategic Response. Aspen Institute, 2020.
Burns, Nicholas. "Preface." The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century. Ed. Leah Bitounis and Jonathon Price. Aspen Institute, 2020.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The Long-Term Future of Deterrence." The Logic of Nuclear Terror. Routledge, 2020, 233-250.
Mellers, Barbara, Philip E. Tetlock, Joshua Baker, Jeffrey Friedman, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Improving the Accuracy of Geopolitical Risk Assessments." The Future of Risk Management. Ed. Howard Kunreuther, Robert J. Meyer, and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan. University of Pennsylvania Press, July 2019, 1-28.
Carr, Madeline, and Joseph Nye. "From Nuclear Weapons to Cyber Security: Breaking Boundaries." Technologies of International Relations. Ed. Carolin Kaltofen, Madeline Carr, and Michele Acuto. Springer, 2019, 87-96.
Bunn, Matthew. "Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy, and Climate Change: Exploring the Linkages." Nuclear Disarmament: A Critical Assessment. Routledge, 2019, 185-204.
Holdren, John P. "Foreword." Titans of the Climate: Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China. Ed. Gallagher, Kelly Sims, and Xiaowei Xuan. MIT Press, 2019.
Carter, Ashton B. "The Tenth Annual Ernest May Memorial Lecture: Shaping Disruptive Technological Change for Public Good." Technology and National Security: Maintaining America’s Edge. Aspen Strategy Group, 2019.
Rosenbach, Eric, and Katherine Mansted. "Can Democracy Survive the Information Age?" Technology and National Security: Maintaining America’s Edge. Aspen Strategy Group, 2019.
Nye, Joseph S. Jr., Condoleezza Rice, and Nicholas Burns. "Introduction." Technology and National Security: Maintaining America's Edge. Aspen Strategy Group, 2019.
Bilmes, Linda J. "The Fiscal Opacity Cycle: How America Hid the Costs of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." Toward A Just Society: Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics. Ed. Martin Guzman. Columbia University Press, 2018, 457-478.
Bunn, Matthew and Potter, William C. "Introduction: The Problem of Black-Market Nuclear Technology Networks." Preventing Black-Market Trade in Nuclear Technology. Ed. Bunn, Matthew, Malin, Martin B., Potter, William C. and Spector, Leonard S.. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 1-22.
Bunn, Matthew. "Countering Nuclear Black Markets by Strengthening Nonproliferation Culture." Preventing Black-Market Trade in Nuclear Technology. Ed. Bunn, Matthew, Malin, Martin B., Potter, William C., and Spector, Leonard S.. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 249-270.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Seven Tests: Between Concert and Unilateralism." The National Interest on International Law and Order. Ed. R. James Woolsey. Routledge, 2018, 77-87.
Power, Samantha. "Beyond Elections: Foreign Interference with American Democracy." Can it Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. Ed. Sunstein, Cass R.. HarperCollins, 2018, 81-96.
Walt, Stephen. "Rising Powers and the Risks of War: A Realist View of Sino-American Relations." Will China's Rise Be Peaceful?: The Rise of a Great Power in Theory, History, Politics, and the Future. Ed. Asle Toje. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Temkin, Moshik. "Europe and Travel Control in an Era of Global Politics: The Case of France in the Long 1960s." Peoples and Borders. Ed. Elena Calandri, Simone Paoli, and Antonio Varsori. Munich, 2017, 109-128.
Westad, Arne. "The Balkans: A Cold War Mystery." The Balkans in the Cold War. Ed. Svetozar Rajak et al.. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Seven Tests: Between Concert and Unilateralism." The National Interest on International Law and Order. Ed. R. James Woolsey. Routledge, 2017.
Bunn, Matthew, and Scott D. Sagan. "Introduction: Inside the Insider Threat." Insider Threats. Cornell University Press, 2017.
Bunn, Matthew, and Kathryn M. Glynn. "Preventing Insider Theft: Lessons From the Casino and Pharmaceutical Industries." Insider Threats. Cornell University Press, 2017.
Bunn, Matthew, and Scott D. Sagan. "A Worst Practices Guide to Insider Threats." Insider Threats. Cornell University Press, 2017.
Logevall, Fredrik. "Domestic Politics." Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations. Ed. Costigliola, Frank, and Michael J. Hogan. Cambridge University Press, 2016, 151-167.
Westad, Arne. "Hegemonic Power During the Cold War and Beyond." Global Powers: Michael Mann's Anatomy of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Ed. Schroeder, Ralph. Cambridge University Press, 2016, 246-255.
Logevall, Fredrik. "Vietnam: Flawed Decisions, Terrible Consequences." Major Problems in American History, Volume II. Ed. Cobbs-Hoffman, Elizabeth, and Edward J. Blum. Wadsworth Publishing, January 2016, 399.
Temkin, Moshik. "American Internationalists and the Politics of Travel Control in the Era of Vietnam." Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History. Ed. Preston, Andrew, and Doug Rossinow. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Burns, Nicholas, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. "Preface." America’s National Security Architecture: Rebuilding the Foundation. Ed. Burns, Nicholas and Jonathon Price. Aspen Institute, 2016.
Saich, Anthony. "China's Domestic Governing Capacity: Prospects and Challenges." Assessing China's Power. Ed. Jae Ho, Chung. Palgrave Macmillan, October 2015, 41-61.
Bunn, Matthew, and Nickolas Roth. "Reducing the Risks of Nuclear Theft and Terrorism." Routledge Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation and Policy. Ed. Joseph F. Pilat and Nathan E. Busch. Routledge, 2015, 419-429.
Temkin, Moshik. "Malcolm X in France, 1964-1965: Anti-Imperialism and Border Control in the Cold War Era." Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence. Ed. Leslie James, and Elisabeth Leake. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Burns, Nicholas and Jonathon Price. "Preface." Blind Spot: America’s Response to Radicalism in the Middle East. Ed. Burns, Nicholas and Jonathon Price. Aspen Institute, 2015.
Allison, Graham. "Russia, Ukraine, and U.S. National Interests." The Crisis with Russia. Ed. Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price. Aspen Institute, 2014.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "The Unconventional Energy Boom: Bad Timing for a Revanchist Russia." The Crisis with Russia. Ed. Nicholas Burns, and Jonathon Price. The Aspen Institute, 2014.
Allison, Graham. "The Thucydides's Trap." The Next Great War? The Roots of World War I and the Risk of US-China Conflict. Ed. Richard N. Rosecrance and Steven E. Miller. MIT Press, 2014.
Bunn, Matthew, Laura Diaz Anadon, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. "The Need to Transform U.S. Energy Innovation." Transforming US Energy Innovation. Ed. Laura Diaz Anadon, Matthew Bunn, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. Cambridge University Press, August 2014, 1-35.
Burns, Nicholas. "Preface." The Future of American Defense. Ed. Burns, Nicholas, and Jonathon Price. Aspen Institute, February 2014.
Allison, Graham. "Foreword." North Korean Nuclear Operationality: Regional Security and Nonproliferation. Ed. Gregory J. Moore. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Allison, Graham. "How Fragile is the Global Nuclear Order?" Influencing Tomorrow. Ed. Douglas Alexander and Ian Kearns. Guardian Books, 2013.
Bunn, Matthew. "Beyond Crises The Unending Challenge of Controlling Nuclear Weapons and Materials." Nuclear Weapons Security Crises What Does History Teach. Ed. Henry D. Sokolski. Strategic Studies Institute and US Army War College Press, 2013, 253-278.