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

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Journal Articles

Expanding the Agnotological Toolbox: Methods of Sex and Gender Analysis (Chapter in Science and the Production of Ignorance: When the Quest for Knowledge Is Thwarted)

MIT Press, 2020

Journal Articles

PROTECTING ELECTORAL INTEGRITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

2020

Annual Reports

Protecting Electoral Integrity in the Digital Age | The Report of the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age

2020

Journal Articles

How body-worn cameras affect the use of gunshots, stop-and searches and other forms of police behavior: A Randomized Control Trial in Rio de Janeiro

2020

Journal Articles

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

What Determines Climate Policy Preferences if Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Is a Global Public Good?

Visual Impairment and Spectacles Ownership among Upper Secondary School Students in Northwestern China

Legitimacy in the ‘secular church’ of the United Nations

Crisis Stability and the Impact of the Information Ecosystem

Is There a Future for Multilateral Trade Agreements? (Chapter in The Handbook of Global Trade Policy)

“Nash-in-Nash” tariff bargaining

Archaeology and contemporary emerging zoonosis: A framework for predicting future Rift Valley fever virus outbreaks

CNN Perspective with Andy Grotto: Why unlocking Apple iPhones for law enforcement isn't the answer

Expanding the Agnotological Toolbox: Methods of Sex and Gender Analysis (Chapter in Science and the Production of Ignorance: When the Quest for Knowledge Is Thwarted)

PROTECTING ELECTORAL INTEGRITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Protecting Electoral Integrity in the Digital Age | The Report of the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age

30 Years of World Politics: What Has Changed?

Shreya Singhal case was one of the defining rulings of modern internet law

Viewpoint: Principles and priorities for one CGIAR

Engaging, Empowering, and Enabling Youth to Lead Social Action in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Breaking Out of the Democratic Slump

How body-worn cameras affect the use of gunshots, stop-and searches and other forms of police behavior: A Randomized Control Trial in Rio de Janeiro

Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Extortion in Mexico’s Drug War

Torture as a Method of Criminal Prosecution: Democratization, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Mexican Drug War

Public Good Provision and Traditional Governance in Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico

Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro

Simplified Electricity Market Models with Significant Intermittent Renewable Capacity: Evidence from Italy

What works to Prevent Violence Amongst Youth

Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Segmentation of Remote Sensing Imagery

The downstream air pollution impacts of the transition from coal to natural gas in the United States