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

Featured Publications

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

The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't

Didi Kuo looks into the history of how Western political parties developed and what can be done to make them better serve those they aim to represent.

THE GREAT RETREAT

The Four Talent Giants

Gi-Wook Shin explores how Japan, Australia, China, and India achieved economic power and sustained momentum by responding to risks and challenges such as demographic crises, brain drain, and geopolitical tensions.

TALENT GIANTS

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Conference Memos

Travelling narratives: how Russian propaganda transforms cross-borders and between sources. Case of the peace negotiations 2025.

2025

Critical Minerals and the Business of National Security: Engineering competitive incentives into America’s mineral strategy

2025

Journal Articles

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Featured Publications

Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't

The Four Talent Giants

Travelling narratives: how Russian propaganda transforms cross-borders and between sources. Case of the peace negotiations 2025.

Intersection of Rural Education and the War Effort in Russia

Aging, Alcohol, and Attrition: The Economic and Political Ramifications of Public Health in Contemporary Russia

Comparative Analysis of National Literature Education in the United States and Russia

Russia's Narratives, BRICS Strategies, and Economic Engagement with the Global South

Russian Colonialism and Imperial Ambitions: Case Studies of Donbas, Abkhazia, and Chechnya

McNamara At War: A New History

2026 Program Executive Offices Directory

Material incentives and effort choice: Evidence from an online experiment across countries

From Orbit to Outback: A Blueprint for the US-Australia Re-entry Corridor

Statutory Obsolescence in the Age of Innovation: A Few Thoughts about GDPR

Place Attachments: Theory and Measurement for Political Science

Countering Brain Drain Through Circulation and Linkage: Illustrations and Lessons from China and India

Does the Bukele Model Have a Future?

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

The Political Economy of Global Stock Exchange Competition

Profitable Misconduct, Corporate Governance, and Law Enforcement

Let the Public Govern AI

Critical Minerals and the Business of National Security: Engineering competitive incentives into America’s mineral strategy

Engineering competitive incentives into America's mineral strategy

Promoting development in ethnically divided societies: Historical lessons on peace and prosperity

Police Body Worn Cameras in Rio’s Favelas: Can Technology Reduce Violence?

Policy Roundup: August 2025

Fighting Through Disruption: Reframing Cyber Resilience for Power Projection and Strategic Credibility

This Isn’t India-China Rapprochement

A Little Lift in the Iron Curtain: Emigration Restrictions and Criminal Activity in Socialist East Germany