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

Evaluating the Contribution of Weather to Maize and Wheat Yield Trends in 12 U.S. Counties

Agronomy Journal, 2012

Journal Articles

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

PLoS Medicine, 2012

Journal Articles

School Dropouts and Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural China’s Junior High Schools

Journal of Development Studies, 2012

Journal Articles

Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-speaking parents of young children: Validation of the Spanish parental health literacy activities test (PHLAT Spanish)

Academic Pediatrics, 2012

Journal Articles

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2012

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

Evaluating the Contribution of Weather to Maize and Wheat Yield Trends in 12 U.S. Counties

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Chylous ascites after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.

Shorenstein APARC Center Overview 2011-2012

Are organic foods safer or healthier than conventional alternatives? A systematic review.

HIV Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in Africa

Institutions and Comparative Economic Development

School Dropouts and Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural China’s Junior High Schools

Linking the population growth rate and the age-at-death distribution

Impact of immunosuppression on the development of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) viremia after pediatric liver transplantation

Morocco: Outfoxing the Opposition

Freshwater availability and water fetching distance affect child health in sub-Saharan Africa

Perspectives on cost-effective medicine and the use of cost-effectiveness analyses.

Cost effectiveness of screening strategies for early identification of HIV and HCV infection in injection drug users

Determinants of Adverse Events in Vascular Surgery

Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning

Bending the Medicare Cost Curve for Physicians’ Services: Lessons Learned from Canada

Care Coordination Accountability Measures for Primary Care Practice

Lessons Learned from 'Lessons Learned': The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents

FSI Annual Report 2012

The Chinese Economy: A New Transition

Mythology and Politics in the U.S. Presidential Race 2012.

Crowdsourcing for Democracy: New Era in Policy-Making

Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-speaking parents of young children: Validation of the Spanish parental health literacy activities test (PHLAT Spanish)

Does out-migration reshape rural households’ livelihood capitals in the source communities? Recent evidence from western China