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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

From Yesterday to Tomorrow: the Dynamic Story of International Sanctions on the Russian Federation and their Effectiveness

2024

Conference Memos

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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

Analyzing And Editing Inner Mechanisms of Backdoored Language Models

Upstart

The Other Half of ‘Chip 4’: Japan and South Korea’s Different Paths to De-risking

Human vs. Machine: Behavioral Differences Between Expert Humans and Language Models in Wargame Simulations

Inequality in China: The Challenge of Common Prosperity

Erasing Memories: The Suppression of Civic Commemorative Initiatives in Modern Russia

From Yesterday to Tomorrow: the Dynamic Story of International Sanctions on the Russian Federation and their Effectiveness

The Forbidden Kingdom: Russian Neo-Colonialism in Donbas (2014-2022)

Encounter of pro- and anti-war ideologies in Russian children’s literature (2021–2024)

Private Constellations: Satellite Operations and Military Contract Dynamics in the Russia-Ukraine War

The Tucker Carlson Effect: Tracking Changing Attitudes Toward Russia Among Conservative Americans

Russian Emigration Patterns during the Russia-Ukraine War: Interviews with Wartime Émigrés

Policy Roundup: May 2024

Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose, and Polarized Norms

The great recession and the public sector in rural America

Rank, Pack, or Approve: Voting Methods in Participatory Budgeting

Cross-cultural differences in retaliation: Evidence from the soccer field

Markovian Agents for Informative Language Modeling

U.S. Democratic Backsliding and the Decline of Democratic Support Abroad

How the Popes Helped Luther: Territorial Fragmentation and the Diffusion of Protestant Ideology

Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation of Relative Rank Signaling

Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence: By Jenny White and Illustrated by Ergün Gündüz

The Changing Nuclear Mind Game

Democracy Corrupted: Apex Corruption and the Erosion of Democratic Values

Encounters and Escalation in the Indo-Pacific