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

Commentary

The US has a new nuclear proliferation problem: South Korea

2023

Working Papers

Between Electoral Cooptation and Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections

CDDRL Working Papers, 2023

Policy Briefs

Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

2023

Conference Memos

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 US has a new nuclear proliferation problem: South Korea

Between Electoral Cooptation and Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections

Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

A League of Authoritarian States? The Middle East and Autocratization in Eurasia

Does Democracy Deliver? Opening the Black Box of the State

Putin’s Nation Building Project and the End of Russia’s Transition: Implications for Europe and Global Democracy

Anything, Anywhere, All at Once: The Case for a (Multi-Dimensional) National Democracy Strategy

Can Gender Quotas Improve Public Service Provision? Evidence from Indian Local Government

Russian Civil Society Before, During, and After the War with Ukraine

Why Pluralism Persists

Searching for Eunomia Once Again: Organizing Principles for Liberal Order in the 21st Century

Shadows of the Authoritarian Past

Zone Balancing: India and the Quad's New Strategic Logic

The Limits of Autocratic Diffusion

Democracy’s Racism Problem

How Technology Changed the Game on Democratic Development

How the war in Ukraine hinders US-Russian nuclear arms control

The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age

Potential Health and Economic Impact Associated With Achieving Risk Factor Control in Chinese Adults With Diabetes

No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe

Coding protection: 'cyber humanitarian interventions' for preventing mass atrocities

Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey

Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China’s Technology Transfers to Africa

The Fresh Assault on Insurance Coverage Mandates

A New Push for Nuclear Guardrails

The world needs a Russia that is not playing with nuclear escalation and threatening nuclear holocaust.