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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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Working Papers

China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme Improved Finances of Township Health Centers but Not the Number of Patients Served

Health Affairs, 2012

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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 Gendered Dimensions of Sex Trafficking

Dueling incentives : Sexual violence in Liberia and the politics of human rights advocacy

The Utility of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Assessment in Relation to Adult Health

Health-related quality of life as a predictor of mortality among survivors of AKI

India 1960-2010: Structural change, the rural non-farm sector, and the prospects for agriculture

Predictors of emergency department death for patients presenting with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Divided Memories: History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

Content Analysis of Primary and Secondary School Textbooks Regarding Malaria Control: A Multi-Country Study

Democracy after Democratization

Transfer Paths and Academic Performance: The Primary School Merger Program in China

Organizational legacies of violence Conditions favoring insurgency onset in Colombia, 1964–1984

China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme Improved Finances of Township Health Centers but Not the Number of Patients Served

The China Greentech Report 2012

The challenge for Hollande

Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past

Peacemaker

Voting for Change: The Pitfalls and Possibilities of First Elections in Arab Transitions

Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

Biofuels, Rural Development, and the Changing Nature of Agricultural Demand

Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns

The Limits of Health and Nutrition Education: Evidence from Three Randomized Controlled Trials in Rural China

REAP Brief #118: Are We There Yet? The Long Road to Eliminating Undernutrition in Rural China's Schools

Intelligence as a Service Industry

The Race Between Obama and Romney: What is at Stake for Europe?

Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform