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Browse FSI scholarship on geopolitics, global health, energy, cybersecurity and more.

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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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Journal Articles

Effect of Deworming on Indices of Health, Cognition, and Education among Schoolchildren in Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017

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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

Effect of Deworming on Indices of Health, Cognition, and Education among Schoolchildren in Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

NYT Op Ed by Daphne Keller | Making Google the Censor

Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner

Building Hydropower Plants in Uganda: Who is the Best Partner?

Caught in the Crossfire: The Geography of Extortion and Police Corruption in Mexico

Authoritarian Survival and Poverty Traps: Land Reform in Mexico

The Economic Costs of Drug-Trafficking Violence in Mexico

A real national security budget will keep the peace

Analyzing the Structure and Performance of Kim Jong-un's Regime

Every Breath You Take — Every Dollar You’ll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970

Landsat-based classification in the cloud: An opportunity for a paradigm shift in land cover monitoring

Impact Evaluation: Program Jóvenes con Porvenir

Making exit costly but efficient: the political economy of exit clauses and secession

Challenges in the Process of China’s Urbanization

To be "dam"-ed: Navigating Stakeholder Relations to Bring Energy to Africa with Inga 3

A MOOC With Meaning

Assessing College Critical Thinking: Preliminary Results from the Chinese HEIghten® Critical Thinking Assessment

Japan's Shift in the Nuclear Debate: A Changing Identity?

The Educational Gradient in Health in China

Towards fine resolution global maps of crop yields: Testing multiple methods and satellites in three countries

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia

South Korea Votes for Change: What It Means for the United States

Sidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Localized Technology To Teach Around Taboos

Wealth Inequality and Democracy