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 Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on the Matriculation of Junior High School Students to Rural China’s High Schools

Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2017

Commentary

The Modern Language Association Votes to Reject Academic Boycott of Israel

Tablet Magazine, 2017

Journal Articles

Formulating a List of Sites of Waterbird Conservation Significance to Contribute to China’s Ecological Protection Red Line

Bird Conservation International, 2017

Commentary

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 Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Donald Trump's Trade Policy: Back to The Future

Ce qu'ils disent vraiment: Les politiques pris aux mots

Women in the Crosshairs: Violence Against Women during the Second World War

Choosing an informative agenda setter: The appointment of the Commission in the European Union

Trading in the Twenty-First Century: Is There a Role for the World Trade Organization?

How Trump Can Play Nice With Russia, Without Selling Out America

Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk-Taking in Margin Lending

Opportunity for marine fisheries reform in China

Using remotely sensed temperature to estimate climate response functions

Satellite detection of rising maize yield heterogeneity in the U.S. Midwest

Early-Modern Rights Regimes: A Genealogy of Revolutionary Rights

Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy

Ten Proposals On The Middle East For The New U.S. Administration

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on the Matriculation of Junior High School Students to Rural China’s High Schools

The Modern Language Association Votes to Reject Academic Boycott of Israel

Formulating a List of Sites of Waterbird Conservation Significance to Contribute to China’s Ecological Protection Red Line

Election 2016: A Postmortem

Summary and Briefings from the Stanford-China Workshop on Reducing Risks of Nuclear Terrorism

The Epidemiologic Challenge to the Conduct of Just War: Confronting Indirect Civilian Casualties of War

Comparing estimates of climate change impacts from process-based and statistical crop models

Identifying Implicit Component Interactions in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems

Trust, Transparency, and Replication in Political Science

The political economy of enforcing fiscal rules

Representing Legitimacy in Early Modern Russia