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FSI's scholars tackle a range of issues, from longstanding concerns like nuclear nonproliferation and military defense to new challenges such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and emerging regional conflicts.

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The Myth of the AI Race

Treating AI as a contest with a single finish line and a single victor is a misleading premise that fundamentally misrepresents how the technology is developing and how United States and China are competing, argues Colin Kahl.

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NATO Did Not Cause Putin's Imperial War

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine was primarily about Putin’s imperial beliefs, not great power politics, and that Russian fear of NATO was not a major factor in the march to war, write Jim Goldgeier and Brian Taylor.

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The Dangerous Fallout of Trump’s Retreat to the Hemisphere

Gabrielius Landsbergis cautions that America's return to 20th century-style spheres of influence has the potential to create severe strategic dilemmas for the United States, as allies turn away and emboldened enemies begin to converge.

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Featured Scholars

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Rose Gottemoeller

William J. Perry Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution

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David Relman

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor

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Scott Sagan

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science

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Amy Zegart

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

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Journal Articles

Sovereign Democracy and Shrinking Political Space

Russia Business Watch, 2006

Working Papers

The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Journal Articles

Slide Rules: What Civil War Looks Like

The New Republic, 2006

Commentary

Improving Math Ed--Bush Right About That

San Francisco Chronicle, 2006

Journal Articles

International Regime of Fresh Fuel Supply and Spent Fuel Disposal

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Nonproliferation Review, 2006

Books

Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, The

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Stanford University Press: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2006

Working Papers

Greenhouse Gas Implications in Large Scale Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries: Examples from China and India

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #54, 2006

Books

Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy

Stanford University Press: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2006

Commentary

Europe Doesn't Get Free Speech

International Herald Tribune, 2006

Policy Briefs

Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting al-Qa'ida's Organizational Vulnerabilities

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Combating Terrorism Center, United States Military Academy, 2006

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Japan's Security Strategy in the Post-9/11 World: Embracing a New Realpolitik

Praeger and Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2006

Journal Articles

Power Positions: International Organizations, Social Networks, and Conflict

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Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2006

Journal Articles

Terrorism and North-South Relations

RUSI Journal, 2006

Commentary

You're Being Watched

Los Angeles Times, 2006

Commentary

Torturer's Dilemma: The Math on Fire with Fire, The

San Francisco Chronicle, 2006

Journal Articles

Anti-Terrorist Finance in the United Kingdom and the United States

Michigan Journal of International Law, 2006

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North Korea: 2005 and Beyond

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Russian Resilience as a Great Power

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Post-Soviet Affairs, 2006

Working Papers

Main Institution in the Country is Corruption, The: Creating Transparency in Angola

CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Books

Parallel Lives? Oppenheimer and Khariton

University of California, Berkeley in "Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections", 2005

Working Papers

Democracy, History, and Migrant Labor in South Korea: Korean Chinese, North Koreans, and Guest Workers

Shorenstein APARC, 2005

Policy Briefs

Korean Food, Korean Identity: The Impact of Globalization on Korean Agriculture

Shorenstein APARC, 2005

Books

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Journal Articles

Rethinking Food Security for the 21st Century

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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005

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Primary Commodity Exports and Civil War

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2005