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

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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

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Commentary

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

CDDRL Working Paper, 2013

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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

The Criminal N.S.A

Naval Gazing

Can Information and Counseling Help Students from Poor Rural Areas Go To High School? Evidence from China

My Personal Journey at the Nuclear Brink

Can One-to-One Computing Narrow the Digital Divide and the Educational Gap in China? The Case of Beijing Migrant Schools

Global crop exposure to critical high temperatures in the reproductive period: historical trends and future projections

What We Need to Know About PRISM

Will Demographic Change Slow China's Rise?

Implications of Metric Choice for Common Applications of Readmission Metrics

Implications of Metric Choice for Common Applications of Readmission Metrics

A Chance to Defuse North Korea

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

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?

Reforming the Yemen Security Sector

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

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

Impressions of a Pakistan election monitor

Requiem for a Realist: Remembering the nuclear strategist

Beyond Malala: Progress for Pakistan's Women