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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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Commentary

Computer Assisted Learning as Extracurricular Tutor? Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Rural Boarding Schools in Shaanxi

Journal of Development Effectiveness, 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

Impressions of a Pakistan election monitor

Beyond Malala: Progress for Pakistan's Women

Red Lines Matter: Why We Should Care About Syria's Chemical Weapons

Making discoveries in virtual worlds via the Cloud

Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the Age of Mass Migration

Pakistan's Foreign Policy Calibration

The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Information, College Decisions and Financial Aid: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in China

Computer Assisted Learning as Extracurricular Tutor? Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Rural Boarding Schools in Shaanxi

The Role of Agriculture in China's Development: Performance, policy determinants of success, and lessons for Africa

Be Part of the Solution

Latin America's Nitrogen Challenge

Testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, U.S. House of Representatives

The Swiss Miracle? Beyond Chocolate, Cheese, and Banking

Longer Q&A on North Korea

Shooting down the Star Wars myth

Authoritarian Parochialism: Local Congressional Representation in China

Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis

The Ethnic Question: How Do We Integrate Today's Immigrants In Our Globalized World

The Economic Consequences of Drug Trafficking Violence in Mexico

Political Participation and Democratic Transition in the Arab Word

Land Takings and Political Trust in Rural China

Perverse Complimentarity: Political Connections and the Use of Courts among Private Firms in China

Household environmental conditions are associated with enteropathy and impaired growth in rural Bangladesh

"Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low-and Middle-Income Country Health Programs," in Tony Cuyler (ed.)