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Regional Expertise

In addition to the most pressing issues of the day, scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies focus their research on many regions of the world, from Beijing to Brazil.

Research Spotlight

Students in China participate in the National College Entrance Exam

The Ripple Effects of China’s College Expansion on American Universities

Researchers at SCCEI trace how China’s unprecedented expansion of higher education has impacted U.S. graduate education and local economies surrounding college towns.

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Nayib Bukele and Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez de Bukele, president and first lady of El Salvador, wave to supporters from a balcony.

Does the Bukele Model Have a Future?

While Nayib Bukele's style of authoritarianism may have some successes on paper, Beatriz Magaloni and Alberto Diaz-Cayeros argue that the regime is headed for a reckoning.

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hands on Iranian flag

Time for Iran to Make a No-enrichment Nuclear Deal

The time has come for Iran’s leaders to reconsider their past intransigent, deceptive posture and instead pursue a nuclear power program that will benefit the Iranian people, write Abbas Milani and Siegfried Hecker.

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Featured Faculty

Portrait of Karen Eggleston

https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/people/karen_eggleston

Karen Eggleston

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Deputy Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Eggleston Full Bio

https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/beatriz_magaloni

Beatriz Magaloni

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Professor of Political Science

Magaloni Full Bio

Dr. Scott Rozelle

https://reap.fsi.stanford.edu/people/scott_rozelle

Scott Rozelle

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Co-Director, Rural Education Action Program

Rozelle Full Bio

Kiyoteru Tsutsui

https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/kiyoteru-tsutsui

Kiyoteru Tsutsui

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Tsutsui Full Bio

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Publications

Working Papers

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 1: Series Overview and Methodology

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Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2004

Working Papers

Sovereignty Relinquished: Explaining Commitment to the International Human Rights Covenants, 1966-1999

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

What Went Wrong in Iraq?

Foreign Affairs, 2004

Working Papers

Equality and Difference: Regional Courts and Women's Human Rights

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Transformation Of Child Health In The United States, The

Health Affairs, 2004

Working Papers

Quantifying Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship and Productivity in New Zealand

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Race/Ethnicity and Patient Satisfaction: Using the Appropriate Method to Test for Perceived Differences in Care

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2004

Journal Articles

The Party Elite and China's Trajectory of Change

China: An International Journal, 2004

Journal Articles

Translating research into practice: organizational issues in implementing automated decision support for hypertension in three medical centers

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2004

Working Papers

Reestablishing the Judicial System in Afghanistan

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

The Quality of Democracy

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Misunderestimating Terrorism

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Foreign Affairs, 2004

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Consumers' Use of the Internet for Health Insurance

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American Journal of Managed Care, 2004

Commentary

Proposition 69 Could Threaten Privacy of DNA

San Francisco Chronicle, 2004

Books

Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles For Water and Power

Cornell University Press, 2004

Journal Articles

Underuse of Evidence-Based Therapies

Circulation, 2004

Working Papers

Moving Up Out of Poverty: What Does Democracy Have to Do With It?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Global Standards; Global Growth?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Polish Electricity Market Investment Context, The

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #31, 2004

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Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights Education

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Borders and Growth

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Building Democratic Peace in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Inevitably Ambitious Agenda

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: The European Experience

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Sources of Rationalized Governance: Cross-National Longitudinal Analyses, 1985-2002

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004