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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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Policy Briefs

Policy Roundup: July 2025

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Working Papers

A Danger to Self and Others: Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, 2025

Journal Articles

Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study

The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025

Commentary

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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

Policy Roundup: July 2025

A Danger to Self and Others: Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization

Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study

Nuclear arms control enters uncharted territory. It needs tools—both old and new

Political Breakthroughs in the Trenches

Due Process or the Rule of Law? Americans Speak a Different Legal Language

Conference Abstract — Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv

Global Banking Rules Are Failing Emerging Markets

Bukele v. the Rule of Law: Getting Results by Skirting the Law

Navigating Reform in Guatemala: Addressing Corruption in the Attorney General’s Office

The Impact of US Assimilation and Allotment Policy on American Indian Mortality

America in One Room: Pennsylvania Executive Summary

The Real AI Race

An Internet Infrastructure Perspective on AI Service Provision

Time for Iran to make a no-enrichment nuclear deal

Home but not free: Rule-breaking, withdrawal, and dignity in reentry

Hegseth Is Wrong About Women in Warfighting

Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

Turkey’s Hard Road to Democratic Renewal

The Four Talent Giants

Aligning Investments in Therapeutic Development with Therapeutic Need: Closing the Gap 2025

Racism “Denial” in Asia: Critical Discourse Analysis of UN CERD State Reports, 1978–2023

The status and prospects for democracy in Asia

Policy Roundup: June 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons: A Commonsense Approach to Understanding Costs and Benefits