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

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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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Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study

The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025

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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

2025 Chey-Stanford-KFAS Sustainable Democracy Roundtable Report

Income-Related Disparities in the Value of Health Care in South Korea

China Is Winning the Cyberwar

Policy Roundup: July 2025

A Danger to Self and Others: Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization

Nuclear arms control enters uncharted territory. It needs tools—both old and new

Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study

Political Breakthroughs in the Trenches

Due Process or the Rule of Law? Americans Speak a Different Legal Language

Conference Abstract — Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv

Global Banking Rules Are Failing Emerging Markets

Bukele v. the Rule of Law: Getting Results by Skirting the Law

Navigating Reform in Guatemala: Addressing Corruption in the Attorney General’s Office

The Real AI Race

An Internet Infrastructure Perspective on AI Service Provision

America in One Room: Pennsylvania Executive Summary

Home but not free: Rule-breaking, withdrawal, and dignity in reentry

Time for Iran to make a no-enrichment nuclear deal

Hegseth Is Wrong About Women in Warfighting

Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

Turkey’s Hard Road to Democratic Renewal

The Four Talent Giants

Racism “Denial” in Asia: Critical Discourse Analysis of UN CERD State Reports, 1978–2023

The status and prospects for democracy in Asia

Policy Roundup: June 2025