Publications

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

Featured Publications

Security Through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and U.S.-Russia Relations after the Cold War

Rose Gottemoeller uses lessons learned from U.S.-Russia relations during the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations to offer insights into how Russia today may be convinced to end its war against Ukraine and resume cooperation for the sake of global security.

SECURITY THROUGH COOPERATION

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

Cover of The Highest Exam by Hongbon Li and Ruixue Jia, with Claire Cousineau.

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

The National College Entrance Examination shapes the future of millions of students in China each year, but Hongbin Li and Ruixue Jia illuminate how this test of all tests is also shaping education, labor markets, political legitimacy, and social values beyond the PRC.

THE HIGHEST EXAM

Publications

Books

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

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

The Super Smart Way to Dismantle ISIS

The National Interest, 2015

Commentary

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

Annual IAS Symposium, 2015

Publications

Featured Publications

Security Through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and U.S.-Russia Relations after the Cold War

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

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

Digital_Pausen: Konturen einer flüchtigen Gegenwart

The End of Expensive Oil?

Take No Casualties

Thucydides Trap

The Campaigns of Cao Cao

Half-Baked — The Retail Promotion of Marijuana Edibles

Explaining and Influencing Chinese Arms Transfers

The Future of the American Military

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

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

Fear and Nuclear Terrorism

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

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

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

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

The Super Smart Way to Dismantle ISIS

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