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

Journal Articles

Assessing Opportunities for Solar Lanterns to Improve Educational Outcomes in Rural Off-Grid Regions: Challenges and Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, 2018

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

International Student Networks as Transnational Social Capital: Illustrations from Japan

Transboundary Game of Life: Memoir of Masahiko Aoki

The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime

Market power and incentive-based capacity payment mechanisms

Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases

The Role of Efficient Pricing in Enabling a Low- Carbon Electricity Sector

North Korea in 2018: Kim’s Summit Diplomacy

North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?

Tax brown energy or subsidize green? The choice is easy

Can Incentives to Increase Electricity Use Reduce the Cost of Integrating Renewable Resources?

Benchmark Regulation of Multiproduct Firms: An Application to the Rail Industry

A carbon tax to fund increased border security?

Decentralization and the environment: Assessing smallholder oil palm development in Indonesia

Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Early Development of Children in Rural Guizhou Province, China

Future Visions: Opportunities and Challenges of Korean Studies in North America

FSI Publications 2017 - 2018

Satellite mapping of tillage practices in the North Central US region from 2005 to 2016

Modern Management and the Demand for Technical Skill

Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan Final Report

Comparing auction designs where suppliers have uncertain costs and uncertain pivotal status

Information Technology in the Property Market

Assessing Opportunities for Solar Lanterns to Improve Educational Outcomes in Rural Off-Grid Regions: Challenges and Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Gas-to-Power Value Chain

The Evidence from California on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Distribution Network Pricing

Reports of the Demise of Carbon Pricing are Greatly Exaggerated