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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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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

Industrial Policy Reconsidered in a Digital World

Global crop exposure to critical high temperatures in the reproductive period: historical trends and future projections

Girls' education and HIV risk: Evidence from Uganda

The European parliament elections in 2014 are about more than protest votes

Water and Agriculture in Africa: The politics of the belly or the politics of the mirror?

The Fukushima Disaster and Japan's Nuclear Plant Vulnerability in Comparative Perspective

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

Longer Q&A on North Korea

Performance Legitimacy, State Autonomy and China's Economic Miracle

Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

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

The Economic Consequences of Drug Trafficking Violence in Mexico

Authoritarian Parochialism: Local Congressional Representation in China

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

Does it Pay to be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China

Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China

Land Takings and Political Trust in Rural China

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the DPJ: Leadership, Structures, and Information Challenges During the Crisis

The Quality of Governance in China: A Citizen's View

Rural China: Poor Governance in Strong Development

Republic of Government vis-a-vis Republic of Science: Analyzing China's Scientific Knowledge Production

Errors in climate datasets and their effects on statistical crop models

The North Korea Problem and the Necessity for South Korean Leadership