Publications

Browse FSI scholarship on geopolitics, global health, energy, cybersecurity and more.

Featured Publications

Sacred Foundaitons: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna Grzymała-Busse

Sacred Foundations

This major study by Anna Grzymała-Busse shows that the Catholic Church both competed with medieval monarchs and provided critical templates for governing institutions, the rule of law, and parliaments.

Sacred Foundations

Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

Larry Diamond and colleagues examine the “silicon triangle" that binds the United States, Taiwan, and China and will impact each country's economy, security, trade, and long-term competitiveness.

Silicon Triangle

Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program

Siegfried Hecker recounts the seven trips he made to North Korea between 2044 and 2021 to explore ways to reduce the danger posed by Pyongyang’s advancing nuclear weapons program.

Hinge Points

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Books

Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program

2023

Working Papers

Between Electoral Cooptation and Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections

CDDRL Working Papers, 2023

Policy Briefs

Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

2023

Commentary

Publications

Featured Publications

Sacred Foundations

Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program

Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program

Between Electoral Cooptation and Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections

Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

The US has a new nuclear proliferation problem: South Korea

Can Gender Quotas Improve Public Service Provision? Evidence from Indian Local Government

Russian Civil Society Before, During, and After the War with Ukraine

Why Pluralism Persists

Searching for Eunomia Once Again: Organizing Principles for Liberal Order in the 21st Century

Shadows of the Authoritarian Past

Zone Balancing: India and the Quad's New Strategic Logic

The Limits of Autocratic Diffusion

Democracy’s Racism Problem

How Technology Changed the Game on Democratic Development

A League of Authoritarian States? The Middle East and Autocratization in Eurasia

Does Democracy Deliver? Opening the Black Box of the State

Putin’s Nation Building Project and the End of Russia’s Transition: Implications for Europe and Global Democracy

Anything, Anywhere, All at Once: The Case for a (Multi-Dimensional) National Democracy Strategy

How the war in Ukraine hinders US-Russian nuclear arms control

Potential Health and Economic Impact Associated With Achieving Risk Factor Control in Chinese Adults With Diabetes

Family Physician Services and Blood Pressure Control in China

Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations

No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe

Coding protection: 'cyber humanitarian interventions' for preventing mass atrocities

Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey

A New Push for Nuclear Guardrails

The world needs a Russia that is not playing with nuclear escalation and threatening nuclear holocaust.