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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

Organizational legacies of violence Conditions favoring insurgency onset in Colombia, 1964–1984

Journal of Peace Research, 2012

Journal Articles

China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme Improved Finances of Township Health Centers but Not the Number of Patients Served

Health Affairs, 2012

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

Organizational legacies of violence Conditions favoring insurgency onset in Colombia, 1964–1984

China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme Improved Finances of Township Health Centers but Not the Number of Patients Served

The China Greentech Report 2012

The challenge for Hollande

Transfer Paths and Academic Performance: The Primary School Merger Program in China

Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past

Peacemaker

Voting for Change: The Pitfalls and Possibilities of First Elections in Arab Transitions

Divided Memories: History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

Content Analysis of Primary and Secondary School Textbooks Regarding Malaria Control: A Multi-Country Study

Democracy after Democratization

Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

Biofuels, Rural Development, and the Changing Nature of Agricultural Demand

Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns

Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform

REAP Brief #118: Are We There Yet? The Long Road to Eliminating Undernutrition in Rural China's Schools

The Limits of Health and Nutrition Education: Evidence from Three Randomized Controlled Trials in Rural China

Intelligence as a Service Industry

The Race Between Obama and Romney: What is at Stake for Europe?

Neuroculture: How to keep ethical pace with the current “deep” transformations through neurotechnology?

French nuclear idiosyncrasy: how it affects French nuclear policies towards the United Arab Emirates and Iran

The Himalayas Can Learn from the Alps. Where Is Tibet Heading? Europe Could Provide a Viable Model of Pacification

The Political Economies of Immigration Law

The Conundrum of Close Calls: Lessons Learned for Securing Nuclear Weapons

Can North Korea nuclear crisis be resolved?