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Featured Scholars
FSI is home to approximately 150 researchers, including 49 appointed faculty. Our scholars include world-renowned political theorists, physicians, former ambassadors, nuclear physicists and economists.
Larry Diamond
Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy
Recent Publication
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
Beatriz Magaloni
FSI Senior Fellow
Director, Poverty, Violence and and Governance Laboratory
Recent Publication
Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
Kathryn Stoner
FSI Senior Fellow
Mosbacher Director, CDDRL
Recent Publication
Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in A New Global Order