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

Estimation of the carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization effect using growth rate anomalies of CO2 and crop yields since 1961

Global Change Biology, 2008

Journal Articles

Towards Probabilistic Projections of Climate Change Impacts on Global Crop Yields

Geophysical Research Letters, 2008

Books

“Streicht dunkler die Geigen”: Berio and Birtwistle in dialogue with Paul Celan

Sonic Transformations of Literary Texts: From Program Music to Musical Ekphrasis, 2008

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 Geoengineering Option

Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats

Climate Change and the Energy Challenge: A Pragmatic Approach for India (Working Paper)

Environment Gridlock

Peaceful Coexistence or Iron Curtain? Austria, Neutrality, and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Détente, 1955-1989

Does China Underprice Its Oil Consumption?

Child Labor: A Normative Perspective

Encina Columns Winter 2009

Carbon Capture and Storage at Scale: Lessons from the Growth of Analogous Energy Technologies

Noxious Markets

Global Warming Policy After Kyoto: Rethinking Engagement with Developing Countries

Obama Administration and U.S.-ROK Policy Challenges

The Services Transformation and Network Policy: The New Logic of Value Creation

The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty

FSI Annual Report 2008

(Im)possibilities of Communication: Celan, Ruzicka, Dittrich

The Effect of Irrigation on Regional Temperatures: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Trends in California, 1943-2002

Carbon Payback Times for Crop-based Biofuel Expansion in the Tropics: The Effects of Changing Yield and Technology

Why are agricultural impacts of climate change so uncertain? The importance of temperature relative to precipitation

Individual Tolerance: The Contrary Effects of the Social Context

Satellite Monitoring of Yield Responses to Irrigation Practices Across Thousands of Fields

Changing Face of the Indian Energy System: A March Towards Normalcy

Estimation of the carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization effect using growth rate anomalies of CO2 and crop yields since 1961

Towards Probabilistic Projections of Climate Change Impacts on Global Crop Yields

“Streicht dunkler die Geigen”: Berio and Birtwistle in dialogue with Paul Celan