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

Books

The Russian Empire 1450-1801

Oxford University Press, 2017

Journal Articles

Assessing the heterogeneity and persistence of farmers’ maize yield performance across the North China Plain

Field Crops Research, 2017

Journal Articles

Patient Copayments, Provider Incentives and Income Effects: Theory and Evidence from the Essential Medications List under China’s 2009 Healthcare Reform

World Medical & Health Policy , 2017

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

The Russian Empire 1450-1801

Assessing the heterogeneity and persistence of farmers’ maize yield performance across the North China Plain

Patient Copayments, Provider Incentives and Income Effects: Theory and Evidence from the Essential Medications List under China’s 2009 Healthcare Reform

Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses and Economic Growth in Cities

An Approach for Identifying and Analyzing Implicit Interactions in Distributed Systems

Exploring the Effects of a Short-Term Spanish Immersion Program in a Postsecondary Setting

Conditions of military contestation in populist Latin America

South Korea in 2016: Political Leadership in Crisis

Europe after Brexit

A visit to Russia's secret nuclear labs

My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin's Siberia

States in the Developing World

Introduction to the special issue on strategic dimensions of offensive cyber operations

The costs of fossil-free development

Participatory risk network analysis: A tool for disaster reduction practitioners

Trump is right: The United States needs electoral reform

Insider Threats

ASEAN between China and America: Is It Time to Try Horsing the Cow?

Wealth Inequality and Democracy

A Matter of Time: On the Transitory Nature of Cyber Weapons

Satellite-based assessment of yield variation and its determinants in smallholder African systems

A Brief Overview of the Current Startup Ecosystem in Japan

The Number of Choice Tasks and Survey Satisficing in Conjoint Experiments

This is why Democrats lose in ‘rural’ postindustrial America

‘Red’ America is an illusion. Postindustrial towns go for Democrats.