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

Commentary

Differences in Field Effectiveness and Adoption between a Novel Automated Chlorination System and Household Manual Chlorination of Drinking Water in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial

PLoS One, 2015

Journal Articles

Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

Journal of Development Economics, 2015

Books

A Bet Portrayed as a Certainty: Reassessing the Added Deterrent Value of Nuclear Weapons (book chapter)

2015

Journal Articles

Systematic Policy Determines Success or Failure of Reform: Impact of Price Margin Control of Medicine Sale in Public Hospitals

Public Finance Study, 2015

Journal Articles

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

There Is No Global Jihadist Movement

North Korean Human Rights: A Long Journey with Little Progress

Mental Health and Dropout Behavior: A Cross-Sectional Study of Junior High Students in Northwest Rural China

Unequal Access to College in China: How Far Have Poor, Rural Students Been Left Behind?

Mongolia's Child Money Program

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea

House Energy & Commerce Committee Testimony on Cyber Threats

The U.S. Position on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Obligations

Fear and Nuclear Terrorism

Differences in Field Effectiveness and Adoption between a Novel Automated Chlorination System and Household Manual Chlorination of Drinking Water in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

A Bet Portrayed as a Certainty: Reassessing the Added Deterrent Value of Nuclear Weapons (book chapter)

Systematic Policy Determines Success or Failure of Reform: Impact of Price Margin Control of Medicine Sale in Public Hospitals

The effects of extremely wet planting conditions on maize and soybean yields

The Super Smart Way to Dismantle ISIS

Security Challenges in a Turbulent World: Fewer Enemies, More Challenges, and Greater Anxiety

What would happen if nuclear bomb fell on Manhattan?

Let’s Make the Deal with Iran

Stop Drinking the Weak Sauce

Impacts of precipitation and temperature on crop yields in the Pampas

Long-Term Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Learning from the Sony Hack Attack

The fingerprint of climate trends on European crop yields

Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance