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

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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 impact of teacher training on teacher and student outcomes: evidence from a randomized experiment in Beijing migrant schools

Journal of Development Effectiveness , 2013

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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

Do Poor Students Benefit from China's Merger Program? Transfer Path and Educational Performance

Japan under the DPJ

Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms

Mass Support for Global Climate Agreements Depends on Institutional Design

The case for distributed irrigation as a development priority in sub-Saharan Africa

Disowning Fukushima: Managing the credibility of nuclear reliability assessment in the wake of disaster

The Roles of Gender and Education on the Intrahousehold Allocations of Remittances of Filipino Migrant Workers

The Future of Anti-Western Jihadism

The Political Economy of Transatlantic Free Trade

University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICs?

Impact of the Global Financial Crises in Rural China: Gender, Off-Farm Employment, and Wages

More Shots Fired on the Cyber Front: Key Takeaways From Operation Troy

Defending a Hacker: Amicus brief for U.S. v. Andrew Auernheimer

How Syria's Civil War Became a Holy Crusade

Dual Surface-Functionalized Janus Nanocomposites for Simultaneous Tumor Cell Targeting and Stimulus-Induced Drug Release

The impact of teacher training on teacher and student outcomes: evidence from a randomized experiment in Beijing migrant schools

Yemeni Women in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities

Transparency and timeliness: the monitoring of agricultural policies in the WTO using OECD data

A case for unilateral US nuclear warhead reductions

Syrian Minorities between Underprivileged Protection and Due Political Representation

Industrial Policy Reconsidered in a Digital World

Sectarianism and Political Participation in Iraq

The Lavon Affair: How a false-flag operation led to war and the Israeli bomb

Academic Freedom, Democracy and the Public Policy Process

Kishore's World