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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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Book Chapters

Youth and the Reinvention of State-managed Politics in Sisi’s Egypt

2026

Conference Memos

Divergent Approaches, Shared Goals? Comparing US and EU Sanctions Strategies Against Russia Across Energy, Finance, and Frozen Assets (2022-2025)

2026

Conference Memos

Missing Voters? An Analysis of the Effects on Turnout of the Election Administration Delays in the 2026 Peru First Round Presidential Elections

2026

Working Papers

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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

Youth and the Reinvention of State-managed Politics in Sisi’s Egypt

Divergent Approaches, Shared Goals? Comparing US and EU Sanctions Strategies Against Russia Across Energy, Finance, and Frozen Assets (2022-2025)

Propaganda on Telegram: A comparative analysis of pro-Russian digital media stratification

How Civil Society Defeated Orbán

Israel and the NPT: new insights into old questions

Toward Undersea Cable Resilience: The Case for Global Collaboration

Policy Roundup: June 2026

The Influence of Democracy on Infrastructure

Racial Hierarchy and the Balance of Power: Race War in Merze Tate’s International Thought

Empowering Southeast Asia’s Young Adults

The JCPOA was flawed, but it bought time; a new deal should aim higher

The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence And the Coming Crisis in Strategic Stability

Don’t Give Up on Global Order America Depends on It—and Can Restore It

AI Wearables: Meta Community Forum Comprehensive Reports

Corporate National Identity

China’s AI Heist

How to Counter Beijing’s Unauthorized “Distillation”

Civic Mobilization to Defend Electoral Integrity in Hungary

Policy Roundup: May 2026

Patient Preferences for Public and Private Diabetes Care: A Discrete Choice Experiment Study in Vietnam

American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective

Effects of a 2-Year Randomized Controlled Trial of Parenting Centers on Caregiver Mental Health in Rural China

Missing Voters? An Analysis of the Effects on Turnout of the Election Administration Delays in the 2026 Peru First Round Presidential Elections

Perceptions of the Russia-Ukraine war in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality

The $36 Billion Question: The Economic and Humanitarian Consequences of Extending Russia’s Oil Waivers