Publications

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

Featured Publications

Sacred Foundaitons: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna Grzymała-Busse

Sacred Foundations

This major study by Anna Grzymała-Busse shows that the Catholic Church both competed with medieval monarchs and provided critical templates for governing institutions, the rule of law, and parliaments.

Sacred Foundations

Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

Larry Diamond and colleagues examine the “silicon triangle" that binds the United States, Taiwan, and China and will impact each country's economy, security, trade, and long-term competitiveness.

Silicon Triangle

Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program

Siegfried Hecker recounts the seven trips he made to North Korea between 2044 and 2021 to explore ways to reduce the danger posed by Pyongyang’s advancing nuclear weapons program.

Hinge Points

Publications

Conference Memos

U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation: Insights from History

The Stanford US-Russia Journal, 2020

Reimagining Russian Higher Education: Could an experiment in progressive education in Siberia help transform Russia's universities?

The Stanford US-Russia Journal, 2020

Conference Memos

Dialect Jokebooks and Russian-Yiddish and English-Yiddish Dictionaries (Chapter in The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century)

Oxford University Press, 2019

White Papers

How Can We Know if Russia is a Threat to Western Democracy? Understanding the Impact of Russia's Second Wave of Election Interference

2019

Conference Memos

Publications

Featured Publications

Sacred Foundations

Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program

U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation: Insights from History

Reimagining Russian Higher Education: Could an experiment in progressive education in Siberia help transform Russia's universities?

Prospects for American-Russian Cooperation in Countering White Nationalism

An Insightful Perspective For Navigating Russia's VC Market

U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control Negotiations—A Short History

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

Dialect Jokebooks and Russian-Yiddish and English-Yiddish Dictionaries (Chapter in The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century)

Evidence of Russia-Linked Influence Operations in Africa

Computer Science Skills Across China, India, Russia, and the United States

Russia's Promotion of Illiberal Populism: Tools, Tactics, Networks

How Can We Know if Russia is a Threat to Western Democracy? Understanding the Impact of Russia's Second Wave of Election Interference

The Two-Sided Sword of Russian Propaganda

The Russian Model of Digital Control and Its Significance

It's Not Too Late to Prevent a Russia-China Axis

Authenticity, Complaint, and the Russianness of American Jewish Literature

From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia

Vladimir Putin’s Populism, Russia’s Revival, and Liberalism Lost

Is Russia a Threat to Western Democracy? Russian Intervention in Foreign Elections, 1991-2017

The Magnitsky Act - Russian lawyer in Trump Jr. meeting lobbied against it; why does Putin hate it so much?

Uneasy Partnerships: China’s Engagement with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform

When Science Brought Americans and Russians Together

The real winner of the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia

The Russian Empire 1450-1801

A visit to Russia's secret nuclear labs

How Trump Can Play Nice With Russia, Without Selling Out America