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

Working Papers

Discussant comments on “Food systems and human health and nutrition: An economic policy perspective with a focus on Africa”

Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, 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

Discussant comments on “Food systems and human health and nutrition: An economic policy perspective with a focus on Africa”

La Geografía Electoral de 2012 (México)

The nature and causes of the global water crisis: Syndromes from a meta-analysis of coupled human-water studies

The Breivik Trial in Norway: An Example for A Resilient Society?

Searching for Solutions in Aquaculture: Charting a sustainable course

Field Notes from an Iowa Farm

Land institutions and supply chain configurations as determinants of soybean planted area and yields in Brazil

The Debt Crisis Consummates the End of the European Nation States

The Election That Could Reorder South Korea’s Politics

Towards a Theory of Policy Timing

Japan Under the DPJ: The Paradox of Political Change Without Policy Change

A Casualty of Political Transformation? The Politics of Energy Efficiency in the Japanese Transportation Sector

Defying Gravity: How Long Will Japanese Government Bond Prices Remain High?

Ends of Enlightenment

Adapt, Fragment, Transform

Cleaning Up Coal: From climate culprit to solution

Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy

Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict

Policy Options for Japan's Revival

Risk Attitudes Shape National Oil Company Strategies

Austerity plus growth: Europe's winning combination?

Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Narrative, Analysis, and Recommendations

The case of the missing wheat

Only Beautiful, Please

India 1960-2010: Structural change, the rural non-farm sector, and the prospects for agriculture