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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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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

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

Yemen’s Transition: Electoral Challenges and Opportunities for Reform

The Copts, the Nation, and the Revolution

U.S Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for Democracy Around the World

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

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

Does Financial Aid Help Poor Students Succeed in College?

Reforming the Yemen Security Sector

Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach

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

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

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