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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

Journal Articles

Reflections on the Seventieth Anniversary of the End of the Pacific War: Eight Stanford Scholars Write Their Own August Statement

2015

Journal Articles

From Public to Private Standards for Tropical Commodities: A Century of Global Discourse on Land Governance on the Forest Frontier

Forests, 2015

Books

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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

High Time for Conservation: Adding the Environment to the Debate on Marijuana Liberalization

Income Shocks and HIV in Africa

Will the U.S. and Europe Avoid a Lost Decade? Lessons from Japan's Postcrisis Experience

The Beheading of Criminal Organizations and the Dynamics of Violence in Mexico’s Drug War [June 2015]

Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California

School Districting and the Origins of Residential Land Price Inequality

Climate Change Impact on Agriculture: Implications for Food Security and Hunger

太平洋戦争終結７０周年に考える：８人のスタンフォード研究者による終戦の日の談話

Reflections on the Seventieth Anniversary of the End of the Pacific War: Eight Stanford Scholars Write Their Own August Statement

Japan's financial regulatory responses to the global financial crisis

Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts

Staffing Subsidies and the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Explaining Institutional Change: Policy Areas, Outside Options, and the Bretton Woods Institutions

From Public to Private Standards for Tropical Commodities: A Century of Global Discourse on Land Governance on the Forest Frontier

Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970–1979

“Critical Engagement”: British Policy toward the DPRK

Assessment of the Development of Groundwater Market in Rural China

New Channels Dialogue 2015 Final Report

History of partnership between agro-industries and oil palm smallholders in Cameroon

The Role of Markets, Technology, and Policy in Generating Palm-Oil Demand in Indonesia

A Triple-Hurdle Model of Production and Market Participation in Kenya's Dairy Market

A global perspective on food systems

There Is No Global Jihadist Movement

North Korean Human Rights: A Long Journey with Little Progress

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate