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

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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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Journal Articles

Effect of providing free glasses on children's educational outcomes in China: The "Seeing is Learning" cluster-randomized controlled trial

British Medical Journal, 2014

Journal Articles

Text Messaging and Its Impacts on the Health and Education of the Poor: Evidence from Field Experiments in Rural China

World Development, 2014

Working Papers

276-Is the high school admissions process fair? Explaining inequalities in elite high school enrollments in developing countries

2014

Journal Articles

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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

Producing more grain with lower environmental costs

Polarized Electorates in South Korea and Taiwan: The Role of Political Trust under Conservative Governments

In the Wake of the Sunflower Movement: Exploring the Political Consequences of Cross-Strait Integration

Generational Differences in Attitudes towards Cross-Straits Trade

The Role of the United States in Cross-Strait Economic Integration

Social Media, Social Movements and the Challenge of Democratic Governability

Taiwan’s Strategy for Regional Economic Integration

Taiwan’s Bid for TPP Membership and the Potential Impact on Taiwan-U.S. Relations

Polarization in Taiwan Politics

The Roots of Thailand’s Political Polarization in Comparative Perspective

Change and the Unchanged of Polarized Politics in Taiwan

The China Factor and the Generational Shift over National Identity

Coping with the Challenge of Democratic Governance under Ma Ying-jeou

Influence of temperature and precipitation variability on near-term snow trends

China's Rise, Japan's Quest, and South Korea-US Co-operation

Effect of providing free glasses on children's educational outcomes in China: The "Seeing is Learning" cluster-randomized controlled trial

Text Messaging and Its Impacts on the Health and Education of the Poor: Evidence from Field Experiments in Rural China

276-Is the high school admissions process fair? Explaining inequalities in elite high school enrollments in developing countries

Robust features of future climate change impacts on sorghum yields in West Africa

Conference Report: Comparative Budget Policy: Lessons for Reform in the United States [May 2014]

Assisting Uncertainty: How Humanitarian Aid can Inadvertently Prolong Civil War

Universities Can Do Better Than Symbolism: A Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Rethinking the development of Ebola treatments

Strategies and Public Propositions in Games of Institutional Change, Comparative Historical Cases