Will the US invade Venezuela? We ask @annetteidler.bsky.social, @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, and Boris Muñoz to look beyond the pretext of drug trafficking to puzzle out US motivations and weigh the pros and cons of invasion. https://loom.ly/5AiSOs4

A new article by Ayelet Shachar argues that political rhetoric and expanding border controls turn migration into a false crisis, keeping most people stuck in place and highlighting the need for fairer global rules about who can move. https://loom.ly/OjqaV7U

The new Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Climate Policy introduced a new framework for international cooperation on carbon pricing at COP30 this year—learn more about their research efforts in our latest Centerpiece. https://loom.ly/WzrykKI

The first official event of the new Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights kicked off this semester on Europe at a crossroads featuring former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland Leo Varadkar. Read more: https://loom.ly/_viyQ_E

Several of our Graduate Student Associates are nearing the end of their studies. Learn more about their research in our student programs update! https://loom.ly/31WpgtM

Book awards, genius grants, prestigious prizes...check out all the recent awards and accolades our affiliates have received! https://loom.ly/4jRnC60

Looking for your next winter read? Curl up with a new book written by a Weatherhead affiliate: https://loom.ly/2Pqhllw

Syria, California, Sri Lanka, England, India, Türkiye...our undergraduates do summer thesis research all over the world. Read about the experiences of four students in our Dispatches column: https://loom.ly/puXZkPs

Walter Russell Mead delivered the fall Manshel Lecture on "The Crisis of Pax Americana." Read the transcript of his talk, or watch the video of the lecture and Q&A in our latest Centerpiece: https://loom.ly/-4WO7t0

Scroll through our event gallery to see what we have been up to this semester! https://loom.ly/PrJInRY

Read Executive Director Erin Goodman's letter in our fall Centerpiece! https://loom.ly/nmNF5IU

See what the Weatherhead Center has been up to this semester! Check out our fall issue of Centerpiece, our newsletter for life at Weatherhead: https://loom.ly/RN37aCw

Check out our events for the week of December 14, 2025. https://loom.ly/QH45xBw

New publication: Bonny Lin and I shed light on escalating Japan-China tensions by comparing current developments to similar episodes in 2010 and 2012, which led to permanent changes in bilateral relations and their respective foreign policy trajectories: www.csis.org/analysis/esc...

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

🔥🔥 New publication alert! 🔥🔥 We need to talk more about climate adaptation. Regardless of where we stand on climate politics, climate change is already changing our environment, and bringing with it more weather-related disasters like wildfires and floods 🔥⛈️🌊.

Check out our events for the week of December 7, 2025. https://loom.ly/ClGbCRY

Winning revolutionary regimes are often weak & militarily ineffective after victory—why? Regimes often focus on a particular thing to the neglect of another. Kai Thaler looks at new regimes in Iran & Nicaragua, reinforcing the importance of security forces. https://loom.ly/TlbLYtE

On 9/1/25, UN experts issued a statement of concern about the resurgence of serious human rights violations in Burundi—a concern echoed at the Human Rights Council in Geneva the following month. Judith Abitan weighs in on the situation (in French): https://loom.ly/aA7Rnwo

Pippa Norris argues that legal restrictions and internal norms both threaten academic freedom. Using global AFI data and surveys of political scientists, she links declining academic freedom to democratic backsliding and reduced viewpoint diversity. https://loom.ly/Wvlsec4

“Sometimes the most difficult things to grasp are the most familiar.” @svenbeckert.bsky.social on the rise of capitalism as both an economic system and a way of life.

Check out our events for the week of November 30, 2025. https://loom.ly/Jw7RCrU

In his new book, @svenbeckert.bsky.social traces capitalism’s millennium‑long, global rise—showing how states, coercion, and empire shaped it. He urges readers to see beyond its supposed inevitability and imagine alternative futures. https://loom.ly/t63zrOo

Check out our events for the week of November 23, 2025. https://loom.ly/gaSwIOc

It was a pleasure to meet yesterday with Bogdan Klich, chargé d'affaires of Poland in the US, and Mark Elliott, Harvard's vice provost for international affairs, to sign an agreement to renew the partnership for Polish diplomats to participate in our Weatherhead Scholars Program.

A deep dive into the motivations of two key Gulf states—Saudi Arabia and UAE—reveals how their tensions and shifting foreign policies reverberate throughout the Middle East. https://loom.ly/EKjPzvo

We want to extend a warm thank you to Walter Russell Mead for the thought-provoking Manshel Lecture he delivered last week. The video is up on our YouTube channel in case you missed it: https://loom.ly/2nw_fAs

Is the US really hands-off on AI? Sacha Alanoca & I dispel the deregulatory narrative www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Check out our events for the week of November 16, 2025. https://loom.ly/w8bWlwc

TODAY at 4:30pm at the Harvard Faculty Club! Come hear Walter Russell Mead deliver the Manshel Lecture on "The Crisis of Pax Americana." https://loom.ly/h922V58

Check out our events for the week of November 9, 2025 + the Manshel Lecture with Walter Russell Mead. https://loom.ly/J3E3w4c

Thank you to our wonderful panelists and engaged audience for a successful Weatherhead Forum yesterday! The outlook of American foreign policy may be a bit bleak, but we are grateful to our panelists' wisdom. Watch the video here in case you missed it: https://loom.ly/RX6ikn0

The centuries-long history of capitalism shows that economic regimes endure for long periods of relative stability punctuated by moments of rapid change, writes @svenbeckert.bsky.social. We're in that moment now—and resuscitation is futile. We must adapt instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Today at 12pm ET! Join us online for a Weatherhead Forum on the state of foreign policy one year after Trump's reelection. Register here 👉 https://loom.ly/WrGy78M

New on Epicenter: Is the minerals deal with the US good for Ukraine? Olga Iermolenko, Valeriia Melnyk, and Carolyn Cordery reflect on past "deals" with world powers that ultimately compromised Ukraine, and call for transparency up front. https://loom.ly/byvgzs8

Check out our events for the week of November 2, 2025. https://loom.ly/V-Z5djc

As the UN marks its 80th year amid power struggles, funding woes, and declining cooperation, small states like Albania must ground their diplomacy in core values—not shifting alliances—to stay credible and impactful in a fractured world order. Read more from Ditmir Bushati: https://loom.ly/6LN7ql0

For the 2026-27 academic year, we will offer two types of postdoctoral fellowships, with support from the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation. Please see details and ARIeS application portals here: us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/apply-become...

We don’t need a revolution to address our biggest global economic challenges, only a reconfiguration of our priorities and policies, @drodrik.bsky.social argues. bit.ly/4oomh9J

A short piece on "forgotten" histories of citizenship for @scroll.in scroll.in/article/1087...

Next week on 11/5, join us for a Weatherhead Forum webinar on the state of foreign policy one year after the US presidential election. Register now! https://loom.ly/WrGy78M

NEW on Epicenter: Former NFL and MLB player Vernand Morency explains how the "jock tax" works, and how such taxes on athletes and performers can be leveraged for affordable housing initiatives worldwide. https://loom.ly/V45n1wM

Check out our events for the week of October 26, 2025. https://loom.ly/AFPfe5I

TODAY at 5pm in Tsai Auditorium: Join us to hear a conversation between Hind Kabawat, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Syrian Arab Republic, and Weatherhead Center Director Melani Cammett. This event will not be recorded, so be sure to register: https://loom.ly/RQv8Zx0

Join Harvard’s Weatherhead Center community! We are recruiting social science researchers (postdoctoral fellowships & visiting scholar appointments) to the Weatherhead Scholars Program for the 2026–27 academic year. Apply by Nov 4, 2025. Please spread the word! https://loom.ly/AlcAtvU

The liberal world order is being challenged abroad and at home, and the US must now rethink its core international strategy. Join us for our Manshel Lecture with Walter Russell Mead, on Nov 12 at 4:30pm at the Harvard Faculty Club. Register now: https://loom.ly/h922V58

Check out our events for the week of October 19, 2025. Please see the schedule here (or see link in bio): https://loom.ly/0u1D5d8

Last year brought the reelection of US President Donald Trump—and the start of the new administration has already had seismic impact. Join us for a webinar about the state of democracy one year after the election on 11/5 at 12pm. Info and registration at: https://loom.ly/WrGy78M

Argentina faces a big choice in its Oct 26 midterms—back Milei’s reforms for stability, or risk returning to crisis by empowering opposition promises of more spending. Decades of fiscal indiscipline haunt the nation—will voters finally break the pattern? https://loom.ly/cX517LY

New study by @weirongguo.bsky.social challenges the idea of cosmopolitanism as just elite privilege. Drawing on interviews w/ 60 Chinese international students, it reveals activist & cynical forms—shaped by adversity, education, community. https://loom.ly/DEH5m-s