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

Walt, Stephen. "Why Europe Can’t Get Its Military Act Together." Foreign Policy, February 21, 2024.
Kizilova, Kseniya, and Pippa Norris. "'Rally around the flag' effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war." European Political Science (2023).
Walt, Stephen M. "The Morality of Ukraine’s War Is Very Murky." Foreign Policy, September 22, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "You See What You Want to See in Russia." Foreign Policy, July 21, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Kyiv must seize this moment. Otherwise, stalemate might be inevitable." The Washington Post, June 25, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Will India Surpass China to Become the Next Superpower?" Foreign Policy, June 24, 2023.
Dancy, Geoff, Kathryn Sikkink, Mykhailo Soldatenko, and Patrick Vinck. "Russia’s Willing Collaborators: Ukraine Needs a Measured Lustration Policy to Strengthen Security and Rebuild Democracy." Foreign Affairs. June 8, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Ukraine and Russia Need a Great-Power Peace Plan." Foreign Policy, April 18, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "History Shows How Russia’s U.S. Reaper Drone Shootdown Ends." National Interest, March 18, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "The Conversation About Ukraine Is Cracking Apart." Foreign Policy, February 28, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "A Report Card on the War in Ukraine." Foreign Policy, February 23, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Consider these 4 inconvenient questions as the Ukraine war moves forward." Washington Post, February 22, 2023.
Born, Dana. "Setting new standards of leadership." HKS: Lessons from a year of war in Ukraine, February 21, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "What Putin Got Right." Foreign Policy, February 15, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Will Russia Go Nuclear? 7 Key Questions to Consider." Time Magazine, January 5, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Nuclear Weapons Still Matter." Foreign Policy, January 5, 2023.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Ian Goldin. "Urban Rebirth: Economic Considerations for Reconstruction in Kharkiv and Ukraine." December 2022.
Norris, Pippa and Kseniya Kizilova. "What mobilises the Ukrainian resistance?" Europpblog, 3 March 2022.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Diplomat as Gardener." Foreign Affairs. February 19, 2021.
Burns, Nicholas, Daniela Schwarzer, Torrey Taussig, Sophia Becker, Josef Braml, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Anthony Gardner, Thomas Gomart, Christian Mölling, Robin Niblett, Victoria Nuland, Kristi Raik, David E. Sanger, Amanda Sloat, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Nathalie Tocci. "Stronger Together: A Strategy to Revitalize Transatlantic Power." Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School and German Council on Foreign Relations, December 2020.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "After Oil: U.S.-China Split Will Hurt Clean Energy." Bloomberg Opinion, 9/14/2020.
Burns, Nicholas, Frank Wisner. "A Planned Kosovo-Serbia Meeting at the White House is Falling Apart. It was Always a Bad Idea." Washington Post, June 24, 2020.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Oil’s Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise." Bloomberg Opinion, 4/29/2020.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Oil Markets Provide a Glimpse of the Post-Pandemic Future." Bloomberg Opinion, 4/7/2020.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Russia-Saudi Relationship Is A Coronavirus Casualty." Bloomberg Opinion, 3/9/2020.
Burns, Nicholas. "Brexit Is a Challenge Shared by the UK, the EU and the US." Security Times, February 2020.
Burns, Nicholas. "Trump Violates Diplomacy’s Golden Rule." The Atlantic, December 4, 2019.
Power, Samantha. "A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House." New York Times. October 29, 2019.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Lasting Lesson of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact." The Atlantic, August 23, 2019.
Burns, Nicholas. "The 75th Anniversary of D-Day and the Importance of Allies." USA Today, June 5, 2019.
Burns, Nicholas. "Does the US need NATO?" Quartz, April 4, 2019.
Burns, Nicholas, and Douglas Lute. "NATO’s Biggest Problem is President Trump." Washington Post, April 2, 2019.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Historic Alliance between the United States and Europe." Testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy and the Environment, March 26, 2019.
Burns, Nicholas. "Pence and Biden in Munich: Stark Contrast Shows How Trump is Ruining Relations with Europe." USA Today, February 18, 2019.
Bunn, Matthew. "In Gorky Park, With Nuclear Worries." The Hill. August 13, 2018.
Burns, Nicholas. "What America Gets Out of NATO." New York Times, July 11, 2018.
Mukharji, Aroop, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Back Channel Negotiations and Dangerous Waiting." Negotiation Journal (July 2018): 297-307.
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.
Bunn, Matthew and Kovchegin, Dmitri. "Nuclear Security in Russia: Can Progress be Sustained?" Nonproliferation Review 24.5-6 (Spring 2018): 527-551.
Roth, Nickolas, Bunn, Matthew, and Tobey, William H. "Rhetoric Aside, the U.S. Commitment to Preventing Nuclear Terrorism is Waning." The Hill. 4/19/2018.
Burns, Nicholas. "America is on the Brink of a Historic Break With Europe, Thanks to Trump." USA Today, December 26, 2017.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "US Energy Diplomacy in an Age of Energy Abundance." Oxford Energy Forum 111 (November 2017): 8-11.
Bunn, Matthew, and Nickolas Roth. "The Effects of a Single Terrorist Nuclear Bomb." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. September 28, 2017.
Burns, Nicholas. "Gorbachev: a Tragic Hero." Review of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, ed. William Taubman. Boston Globe, September 21, 2017.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Trump Can't Solve North Korea by Just Making a Deal." Bloomberg View, September 5, 2017.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "The One Big Problem With New Russia Sanctions." Bloomberg View, August 10, 2017.
Burns, Nicholas. "Testimony on Russian Interference in European Elections." Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, June 28, 2017.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Theresa May's Troubles and 'The Troubles'." Bloomberg View, June 21, 2017.
Burns, Nicholas. "US-Europe Alliance is in Crisis." USA Today, June 6, 2017.