Publications

Browse FSI scholarship on geopolitics, global health, energy, cybersecurity and more.

Featured Publications

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice.

Residual Governance

graphic represntations of computers and phones connected to tettering boxes of files and then connected to law enforcement in a complex web on a blue background.

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem

Scholars from the Stanford Internet Observatory outline what needs to be done to improve the CyberTipline pipeline as incidents of AI-generated CSAM escalate.

Online Child Safety

Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

Using the first global data set of autocratic propaganda, Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter examine the intertwined relationship between citizens' beliefs and a the security of a dictator's power.

Propaganda in Autocracies

Publications

Commentary

Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States

PNAS Journal, 2020

Journal Articles

Safety of Eyeglasses Wear for Visual Acuity among Middle School Students in Northwestern Rural China: A Cluster-randomised Controlled Trial

BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 2020

Case Studies

Bolivarian Factions: Facebook takes down inauthentic assets

2020

Journal Articles

Institutions, Implementation, and Program Effectiveness: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Learning in Rural China

Journal of Development Economics, 2020

Reports

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Featured Publications

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem

Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

Trump-Backed Rules for Online Speech: No to Porn, Yes to Election Disinformation and Hate Speech

Who Is My Neighbor? The Spatial Efficiency of Partisanship

The Effects of India’s COVID-19 Lockdown on Critical Non-COVID Health Care and Outcomes

Stanford Health Policy PhD Handbook 2020-2021

An Impact-Oriented Approach to Epidemiological Modeling

Association of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes With Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Postmenopausal Women

Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States

Rethinking Nuclear Arms Control

Mapping Crop Types in Southeast India with Smartphone Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning

Fair Regression for Healthcare Spending

Exploring India's Strategic Futures

Al Qaeda’s Leader Is Old, Bumbling—and a Terrorist Mastermind

Al Qaeda’s Franchise Reboot

If Lawmakers Don’t Like Platforms’ Speech Rules, Here’s What They Can Do About It. Spoiler: The Options Aren’t Great

Correlates of Participation in Community-Based Interventions: Evidence from a Parenting Program in Rural China

SIPR Spring 2020

Safety of Eyeglasses Wear for Visual Acuity among Middle School Students in Northwestern Rural China: A Cluster-randomised Controlled Trial

Bolivarian Factions: Facebook takes down inauthentic assets

Institutions, Implementation, and Program Effectiveness: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Learning in Rural China

SIPR Spring 2017

SIPR Spring 2014

SIPR Spring 2018

SIPR Fall 2015

Reporting for Duty: How A Network of Pakistan-Based Accounts Leveraged Mass Reporting to Silence Critics

Mapping U.S.–China Technology Decoupling