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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

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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

A Triple-Hurdle Model of Production and Market Participation in Kenya's Dairy Market

Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Getting Special Economic Zones to Work in Tanzania

Access to Financial Resources for Local Companies: Revitalizing Brazil's Stock Exchange

Girl Adoption in China: A Less-Known Side of Son Preference

A global perspective on food systems

Digital_Pausen: Konturen einer flüchtigen Gegenwart

The End of Expensive Oil?

Explaining and Influencing Chinese Arms Transfers

The Future of the American Military

Take No Casualties

Thucydides Trap

The Campaigns of Cao Cao

Half-Baked — The Retail Promotion of Marijuana Edibles

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

Mongolia's Child Money Program

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

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

House Energy & Commerce Committee Testimony on Cyber Threats

Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea

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

Fear and Nuclear Terrorism