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

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Journal Articles

Overexpression of miR-145 in U87 cells reduces glioma cell malignant phenotype and promotes survival after in vivo implantation

International Journal of Oncology, 2014

Journal Articles

Response to the Commentary 'Reassessing Disparity in Access to Higher Education in Contemporary China'

The China Quarterly, 2014

Journal Articles

Rising temperatures reduce global wheat production

Nature Climate Change, 2014

Journal Articles

Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Rate of Wearing Spectacles in Schools for Children of Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China

BMC Public Health, 2014

Policy Briefs

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

The Impacts of Building Elite High Schools for Students from Disadvantaged Areas

Family Planning Program Effects: A Review of Evidence from Microdata

Poor Vision Among China’s Rural Primary School Students: Prevalence, Correlates and Consequences

Body weight of Italians: the weight of Education

Overexpression of miR-145 in U87 cells reduces glioma cell malignant phenotype and promotes survival after in vivo implantation

Response to the Commentary 'Reassessing Disparity in Access to Higher Education in Contemporary China'

Rising temperatures reduce global wheat production

Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Rate of Wearing Spectacles in Schools for Children of Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China

Conference Report: The Politics of Polarization in Taiwan [Oct. 2014]

Multiple Principals, Multiple Agents: EU and US Democracy Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa [Dec. 2014]

Is There Such A Thing As A "Direct" Cash Transfer? [Dec. 2014]

Self-Centered Inequity Aversion and the Mass Politics of Taxation

Beyond Aid: A Conceptual Perspective on the Transformation of Development Cooperation [Dec. 2014]

The EU, the US and Partnership in Development Cooperation: Bridging the Gap? [Dec. 2014]

An Exploration of China's Mortality Decline under Mao: A Provincial Analysis, 1950-1980

Gain-of-function experiments: time for a real debate

Democracy More or Less: America's Political Reform Quandary

Korean Unification: An American View

Effect of Migration on Children's Educational Performance in Rural China

German Jewish Émigrés and U.S. Invention

Foreshocks: Local Origins of Nanjing’s Qingming Demonstrations of 1976

Shorenstein APARC Center Overview 2013-2014

Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea

Delivering public services effectively: Tamil Nadu & Beyond

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