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

Publications

Journal Articles

Simulating the interaction of a renewable portfolio standard with electricity and carbon markets

The Electricity Journal, 2015

Commentary

Why We Need Persistent Questioning About Civilian Deaths by Drones

The Huffington Post, 2015

Journal Articles

Evaluating Cost-effectiveness of Interventions That Affect Fertility and Childbearing: How Health Effects Are Measured Matters

Medical Decision Making, 2015

Books

Exploring the Dropout Rates and Causes of Dropout in Upper-Secondary Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Schools in China

International Journal of Education Development, 2015

Journal Articles

From Public to Private Standards for Tropical Commodities: A Century of Global Discourse on Land Governance on the Forest Frontier

Forests, 2015

Commentary

Publications

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

Simulating the interaction of a renewable portfolio standard with electricity and carbon markets

Why We Need Persistent Questioning About Civilian Deaths by Drones

Evaluating Cost-effectiveness of Interventions That Affect Fertility and Childbearing: How Health Effects Are Measured Matters

China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed

Geography and Gridlock in the United States

Administrative Decentralization in Peru

Exploring the Dropout Rates and Causes of Dropout in Upper-Secondary Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Schools in China

Explaining Institutional Change: Policy Areas, Outside Options, and the Bretton Woods Institutions

Teaching to the Tails: Teacher Performance Pay and the Distribution of Student Achievement

Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique [Jan. 2015]

Customs Reform in Indonesia

Serious Business: Diminishing the Size of the Informal Sector in Medellin, Colombia

Gifford Pinchot and Sustainable Forest Management

Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission

Facilitating Trade through Effective Border Control: Costa Rica's Challenging Reform Agenda

Growing Singapore's Water Industry: From Water Scarcity to Global Hydrohub

Establishing the Individual Credit Registry System in China

From Public to Private Standards for Tropical Commodities: A Century of Global Discourse on Land Governance on the Forest Frontier

The United States and China: Same Bed, Different Dreams, Shared Destiny

Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970–1979

Conference Report: Lobbying and Campaign Finance [November 2014]

“Critical Engagement”: British Policy toward the DPRK

Nuclear Vulnerability

Agricultural water management at the village level in northern China

Do No Harm: The Know-Do Gap and Quality of Care for Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in India