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

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Journal Articles

The U.S. Position on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Obligations

Naval War College, International Law Studies, 2015

Fear and Nuclear Terrorism

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2015

Journal Articles

Differences in Field Effectiveness and Adoption between a Novel Automated Chlorination System and Household Manual Chlorination of Drinking Water in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial

PLoS One, 2015

Books

Systematic Policy Determines Success or Failure of Reform: Impact of Price Margin Control of Medicine Sale in Public Hospitals

Public Finance Study, 2015

Journal Articles

The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries: A Political Economy Explanation of the Rise of Apple, Google, and Industry Disruptors

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2015

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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

The U.S. Position on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Obligations

Fear and Nuclear Terrorism

Differences in Field Effectiveness and Adoption between a Novel Automated Chlorination System and Household Manual Chlorination of Drinking Water in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial

A Bet Portrayed as a Certainty: Reassessing the Added Deterrent Value of Nuclear Weapons (book chapter)

Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

The effects of extremely wet planting conditions on maize and soybean yields

Systematic Policy Determines Success or Failure of Reform: Impact of Price Margin Control of Medicine Sale in Public Hospitals

The Super Smart Way to Dismantle ISIS

Security Challenges in a Turbulent World: Fewer Enemies, More Challenges, and Greater Anxiety

What would happen if nuclear bomb fell on Manhattan?

Let’s Make the Deal with Iran

Stop Drinking the Weak Sauce

Impacts of precipitation and temperature on crop yields in the Pampas

Long-Term Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Learning from the Sony Hack Attack

The fingerprint of climate trends on European crop yields

Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance

The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries: A Political Economy Explanation of the Rise of Apple, Google, and Industry Disruptors

Bypassing or Manipulating Democracy: Media Control and Resistance in China, Russia, and Turkey

Marine Le Pen Prise aux Mots: Decryptage du Nouveau Discours Frontiste

The Prevalence of Anemia in Central and Eastern China: Evidence From the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Authoritarian Survival and Poverty Traps: Land Reform in Mexico [Feb. 2015]

Information, Female Empowerment and Governance in Oaxaca, Mexico [Feb. 2015]

Factors Underlying Different Myopia Prevalence between Middle- and Low-income Provinces in China

Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Extortion in Mexico's Criminal Insurgency [Feb. 2015]