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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Walt, Stephen. "10 Reasons to Be Thankful in 2024." Foreign Policy, November 28, 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.
Walt, Stephen M. "On Foreign Policy, U.S. Parties Don’t Have the Power." Foreign Policy, August 26, 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "The Murky Meaning of Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive." Foreign Policy, August 28, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Dangerous Decline in Israeli Strategy." Foreign Policy, August 16, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Two Biggest Global Trends Are at War." Foreign Policy, August 6, 2024.
Lo, Adeline, Jonathan Renshon, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "A Practical Guide to Dealing with Attrition in Political Science Experiments." Journal of Experimental Political Science 11.2 (Summer 2024): 147-161.
Walt, Stephen. "The Trump/Vance Unilateralist Delusion." Foreign Policy, July 24, 2024.
Selin, Noelle E., Amanda Giang, and William C. Clark. "Showcasing advances and building community in modeling for sustainability." PNAS 121.29 (July 16, 2024): e2215689121.
Walt, Stephen. "Biden’s Frailty Doesn’t Endanger America." Foreign Policy, July 11, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "This Time, NATO Is in Trouble for Real." Foreign Policy, July 8, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "What the United States Can Learn From China." Foreign Policy, June 20, 2024.
O'Sullivan, Meghan, and Jason Bordoff. "Green Peace: How the Fight Against Climate Change Can Overcome Geopolitical Discord." Foreign Affairs. July/August 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Morality Is the Enemy of Peace." Foreign Policy, June 13, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence." Foreign Policy, June 4, 2024.
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem, and Gadi Heimann. "Dealing with Guilt and Shame in International Politics." International Relations 38.2 (June 2024): 256-278.
Walt, Stephen. "Why Realists Oppose the War in Gaza." Foreign Policy, May 21, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Day After Iran Gets the Bomb." Foreign Policy, May 14, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "What America’s Palestine Protesters Should and Shouldn’t Do." Foreign Policy, May 6, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Appeasement Is Underrated." Foreign Policy, April 29, 2024.
Mitter, Rana. "Verdicts of history: The changing face of the Tokyo tribunal." Review of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on trial and the making of modern Asia, by Bass, Gary J.. Times Literary Supplement, 6316 , 19 April 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "America Fueled the Fire in the Middle East." Foreign Policy, April 15, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Nobody Actually Knows What Russia Does Next." Foreign Policy, April 2, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The United States Has Less Leverage Over Israel Than You Think." Foreign Policy, March 21, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The United States Has Less Leverage Over Israel Than You Think." Foreign Policy, March 21, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "It’s Not Too Late for Restrained U.S. Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy, March 14, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "It’s Not Too Late for Restrained U.S. Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy, March 14, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "NATO Should Not Accept Ukraine—for Ukraine’s Sake." Foreign Policy, March 5, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "NATO Should Not Accept Ukraine—for Ukraine’s Sake." Foreign Policy, March 5, 2024.