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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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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 Quality of Democracy

Consumers' Use of the Internet for Health Insurance

South Asia and the Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 1: Series Overview and Methodology

Sovereignty Relinquished: Explaining Commitment to the International Human Rights Covenants, 1966-1999

Proposition 69 Could Threaten Privacy of DNA

Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles For Water and Power

Underuse of Evidence-Based Therapies

Borders and Growth

Building Democratic Peace in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Inevitably Ambitious Agenda

Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: The European Experience

Sources of Rationalized Governance: Cross-National Longitudinal Analyses, 1985-2002

Avoid Hubris and Other Lessons for Reformers

Structural Convergence

Identity, Social Distance, and Palestinian Support for the Roadmap

Monte Carlo Study of Growth Regressions, A

Rule of Law? Whose Law?

A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change

Post-Communist Paradox: How the Rise of Parliamentarism Coincided with the Demise of Pluralism in Moldova

Geopolitics of Gas: Executive Summary, The

Moving Up Out of Poverty: What Does Democracy Have to Do With It?

Global Standards; Global Growth?

Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

Polish Electricity Market Investment Context, The

Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights Education