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

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.
Bunn, Matthew. "Enabling a Significant Nuclear Role in China’s Decarbonization: Loosening Constraints, Mitigating Risks." Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China. Ed. Lee, Henry, Daniel P. Schrag, Matthew Bunn, Michael Davidson, Wei Peng, Wang Pu, and Mao Zhimin. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 65-100.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S., and Condoleezza Rice. "Foreword." The Struggle for Power: US-China Relations in the 21st Century. Ed. Leah Bitounis and Jonathon Price. Aspen Strategy Group, 2020.
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.
Chen, Martha. "Introduction and Conclusion." The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. Ed. Chen, Martha and Francoise Carre. Routledge, 2020.
Chen, Martha. "WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Variables and Findings." The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. Ed. Chen, Martha and Francoise Carre. Routledge, 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.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Development Strategies Available to North Korea and Their Political Risks." North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War? Ed. William Overholt. Pacific Century Institute, 2019.
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.
Dorn, David, Gordon Hanson, and Lei Li. "Understanding Regional Export Growth in China." World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment. Ed. Lili Yan Ing and Miaojie Yu. Routledge, 2019.
Perkins, Dwight H. "The Complex Task of Evaluating China’s Economic Reforms." China's 40 Years of Reform and Development 1978-2018. Australian National University Press, 2018, 135-154.
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.
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.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Is the Chinese Economy Headed for a Hard Landing." The China Questions: Critical Insight into a Rising Power. Ed. Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Sonyi. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Saich, Anthony. "How Do China’s New Rich Give Back?" The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power. Ed. Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi. Harvard University Press, 2018, 148-154.
Saich, Anthony. "The Politics of Welfare Policy: Towards Social Citizenship?" Handbook of Welfare in China. Ed. Beatriz Carrillo, Johanna Hood and Paul Kadetz. Edward Edgar Publishing, 2017, 81-97.
Perkins, Dwight H. and John P. Tang. "East Asian Industrial Pioneers:Japan, Korea Taiwan." The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871. Ed. Kevin Hjortshoj O'Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson. Oxford University Press, 2017, 28.
Pursch, Samuel James, Andrea Fitri Woodhouse, Michael Woolcock, and Matthew Pierre Zurstrassen. "Documenting Myanmar’s Social Transformation: Insights from Six Rounds of Research on Livelihoods and Social Change in Rural Communities." Myanmar Update 2017. Ed. Gerard McCarthy. Institute for South-East Asian Studies Press, 2017.
Chen, Martha, and Frances Lund. "Overcoming Barriers and Addressing Gender Dimensions in Universal Health Care for Informal Workers: Lessons from India and Thailand." Social Protection for Informal Workers in Asia. Ed. Sri Wening Handayani. Asian Development Bank, 2016.
Fang, Hai, Karen N. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, Scott Rozelle, and Richard Zeckhauser. "The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law." Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in China and India. Ed. Karen Eggleston. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2016.
Norris, Pippa. "Electoral Integrity in East Asia." Routledge Handbook on Democratization in East Asia. Ed. Tun-jen Cheng and Yun-han Chu. Routledge, 2016, 1-25.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Central Planning: East Asia's Experience." Social Capability and Long-Term Economic Growth. Ed. Koo, Bon Ho and Dwight H. Perkins. Springer, 2016.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Globalization and Chinese Growth: Ends of Trends?" Il Grande Sconvolgimento. Ed. Paolo Onofri. il Mulino, 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.
Borjas, George, and Kirk. B. Doran. "How High-Skill Immigration Affects Science: Evidence from the Collapse of the USSR." Innovation Policy and the Economy. Ed. William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. NBER, 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.
Perkins, Dwight H. "China's Future Performance and Development Challenges." The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China. Ed. Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-jin Wei, and Xiaobo Zhang. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Perkins, Dwight H. "The Centrally Planned Economy (1949-1984)." Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Economy. Ed. Gregory Chow and Dwight H. Perkins. Routledge, 2014, 41-54.
Saich, Anthony. "Collection Under Uncertainty: The Creation of the Chinese People's Movement Archive." A Usable Collection, Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History. Ed. Aad Blok, Jan Lucassen, and Huub Sanders. Amsterdam University Press, 2014, 418-425.
Chen, Lincoln, Jennifer Ryan, and Tony Saich. "Introduction: Philanthropy for Health in China: Distinctive Roots and Future Prospects." Philanthropy for Health in China. Ed. Jennifer Ryan, Lincoln C. Chen, and Tony Saich. Indiana University Press, 2014, 1-15.
Allison, Graham. "Foreword." North Korean Nuclear Operationality: Regional Security and Nonproliferation. Ed. Gregory J. Moore. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Will the Gender Violence Just Continue?" Health and South Asia. Ed. Harvard South Asia Institute. Harvard South Asia Institute, 2013, 13-18.
Perkins, Dwight H. "New Institutions for a New Development Model." China: A New Model for Growth and Development. Ed. Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang and Ligang Song. Australian National University and Social Sciences Academic Press China, 2013, 17-33.
Allison, Graham. "Iran: A Bomb or Be Bombed?" The Arab Revolutions and American Policy. Ed. Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price. Aspen Strategy Group, 2013.
Saich, Anthony. "Political Representation." Handbook of China's Governance and Domestic Politics. Ed. Chris Ogden. Routledge, 2013, 109-119.
Perkins, Dwight H. "China's Investment and GDP Growth Boom: When and How Will It End?" The Chinese Economy: A New Transition. Ed. Masahiko Aoki and Jinglian Wu. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 35-59.
Saich, Anthony. "Chinese Communist Party." The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics. Ed. Joel Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2012, 170-172.
Saich, Anthony. "Tiananmen Square." The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics. Ed. Joel Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2012, 442-443.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions." Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries. Ed. Rabah Arezki, Catherine A Pattillo, Marc Quintyn, and Min Zhu. International Monetary Fund, October 2012.
Perkins, Dwight H. "History, Politics and 30 Years of Development and Reform." Reform and Development in China: What Can China Offer the Developing World. Ed. Yang Yao, and Ho-Mou Wu. Routledge, 2011, 45-70.
Winston, Kenneth, and William P. Alford. "Introduction." Prospects for the Professions in China. Ed. William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston, and William Kirby. Routledge, 2011.
Winston, Kenneth. "Advisors to Rulers: Serving the State and the Way." Prospects for the Professions in China. Ed. William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston, and William Kirby. Routledge, 2011.
Kosack, Stephen, Gustav Ranis, and Ken Togo. "A New Model of Foreign Aid, from the Experiences of Japan and the United States." The Boom and Halt of the Imitation Economy. Nakanishiya, 2010.
Saich, Anthony. "Citizen Satisfaction with Government Performance: Public Opinion in Rural and Urban China." Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life. Ed. Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Weiming Tu. Routledge, 2010, 199-213.
Perkins, Dwight H. "China's Pre-reform Economy in Historical Perspective." China's Rise in Historical Perspective. Ed. Brantly Womack. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, 109-128.