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

Publications

Journal Articles

Long-Run Uncertainties for U.S. Agriculture

Kansas City Federal Bank Economic Review, 2019

Does Teacher Training Actually Work? Evidence from a Large-Scare Randomized Evaluation of a National Teacher Training Program

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019

Working Papers

The Impact of Teacher Professional Development Programs on Student Achievement in Rural China: Evidence from Shaanxi Province

Journal of Development Effectiveness , 2019

Working Papers

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

Long-Run Uncertainties for U.S. Agriculture

Does Teacher Training Actually Work? Evidence from a Large-Scare Randomized Evaluation of a National Teacher Training Program

Measuring the Impact of Own and Others' Experience on Project Costs in the U.S. Wind Generation Industry

The Existential Threat From Cyber-enabled Information Warfare

Le nouveau rêve américain : du Maghreb à la Californie

Enhancing Financial Protection under China’s Social Health Insurance to Achieve Universal Health Coverage

Build Your Own Intermediary Liability Law: A Kit for Policy Wonks of All Ages

Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide

The Impact of Teacher Professional Development Programs on Student Achievement in Rural China: Evidence from Shaanxi Province

A Research Agenda for Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance

Potential for Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Japan

Forty Years of Formal—but Not yet Normal—Relations

African States Since Independence: Order, Development, and Democracy (Castle Lecture Series)

Financing Longevity: The Economics of Pensions, Health and Long-term Care Insurance

Stimulation and Early Child Development in China: Caregiving at Arm's Length

Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output

Economic Impact of Diabetes in South Asia: the Magnitude of the Problem

Integrating satellite and climate data to predict wheat yield in Australia using machine learning approaches

HOW THE BELT AND ROAD GAINED STEAM: CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS OF CHINA’S RISE IN GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE

1919 in Korea: National Resistance and Contending Legacies

Sustainable development of the palm oil sector in the Congo Basin

Evaluating Social Programs: The Case of World Health Partners-Sky

Pay by Design: Teacher Performance Pay Design and the Distribution of Student Achievement

Smallholder maize area and yield mapping at national scales with Google Earth Engine

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: Why U.S. Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail