Publications

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

Featured Publications

Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

A clear-eyed look from Michael McFaul at how the rise of autocratic China and Russia are compelling some to think that we have entered a new Cold War—and why we must reject that thinking in order to prevail.

Autocrats vs. Democrats

The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't

Didi Kuo looks into the history of how Western political parties developed and what can be done to make them better serve those they aim to represent.

THE GREAT RETREAT

The Four Talent Giants

Gi-Wook Shin explores how Japan, Australia, China, and India achieved economic power and sustained momentum by responding to risks and challenges such as demographic crises, brain drain, and geopolitical tensions.

TALENT GIANTS

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Journal Articles

Local Government Reform in China in the Past Ten Years: An Evaluation based on the Chinese Local Governance Innovation Awards

CDDRL Working Paper, 2013

Journal Articles

Computer Assisted Learning as Extracurricular Tutor? Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Rural Boarding Schools in Shaanxi

Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2013

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Featured Publications

Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't

The Four Talent Giants

Girls' education and HIV risk: Evidence from Uganda

The European parliament elections in 2014 are about more than protest votes

Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach

Reforming the Yemen Security Sector

WIC in Your Neighborhood: New Evidence on the Impacts of Geographic Access to Clinics

Local Government Reform in China in the Past Ten Years: An Evaluation based on the Chinese Local Governance Innovation Awards

Does Financial Aid Help Poor Students Succeed in College?

Americans and Their Military, Drifting Apart

In Latino Genomes, A Rich Source of History

Water and Agriculture in Africa: The politics of the belly or the politics of the mirror?

The Fukushima Disaster and Japan's Nuclear Plant Vulnerability in Comparative Perspective

Requiem for a Realist: Remembering the nuclear strategist

Impressions of a Pakistan election monitor

Beyond Malala: Progress for Pakistan's Women

Red Lines Matter: Why We Should Care About Syria's Chemical Weapons

Making discoveries in virtual worlds via the Cloud

Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the Age of Mass Migration

Information, College Decisions and Financial Aid: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in China

The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Pakistan's Foreign Policy Calibration

Computer Assisted Learning as Extracurricular Tutor? Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Rural Boarding Schools in Shaanxi

The Role of Agriculture in China's Development: Performance, policy determinants of success, and lessons for Africa

Be Part of the Solution

Latin America's Nitrogen Challenge

Testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, U.S. House of Representatives