Publications

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

Featured Publications

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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Commentary

Assessing the Quality of Primary Healthcare in Seven Chinese Provinces with Unannounced Standardised patients: Protocol of a Cross-sectional Survey

BMJ Open, 2019

Journal Articles

Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid like CEOs? Substitution Between Incentives and Resources Among School Administrators in China

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019

Journal Articles

Social Engagement and Elderly Health in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS)

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019

Journal Articles

How Individuals’ Birth Weight and Later Risk Factors Interact to Determine Their Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Study in the Philippines

Asia Health Policy Program working paper # 54, 2019

Journal Articles

Publications

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

Tax brown energy or subsidize green? The choice is easy

Mapping Missing Population in Rural India: A Deep Learning Approach with Satellite Imagery

Can Incentives to Increase Electricity Use Reduce the Cost of Integrating Renewable Resources?

Bridging Regions, Strengthening Ties: The East Coast Rail Line (ECRL) in Malaysia

Assessing the Quality of Primary Healthcare in Seven Chinese Provinces with Unannounced Standardised patients: Protocol of a Cross-sectional Survey

Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid like CEOs? Substitution Between Incentives and Resources Among School Administrators in China

Are Infant/Toddler Developmental Delays a Problem Across Rural China?

Benchmark Regulation of Multiproduct Firms: An Application to the Rail Industry

The Papal Human Rights Discourse: The Difference Pope Francis Makes

Who Do You Sue?

Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech

Social Engagement and Elderly Health in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS)

Parental Migration, Educational Achievement, and Mental Health of Junior High School Students in Rural China

Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts

The Impact of Adolescents’ Risky Health Behaviors on Their Later Economic Outcomes

Future Projection of the Health and Functional Status of Older People in Japan: A Pseudopanel Microsimulation Model*

The Impact of Energy Access on Mothers’ Health, Labor, and Time Allocation

Weathering the Storm: Weather Shocks and International Migrants from the Philippines

How Individuals’ Birth Weight and Later Risk Factors Interact to Determine Their Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Study in the Philippines

The Impact of Class Labels on Life Chances in China

Bytes, Bombs, and Spies - The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

Noncitizen Soldiers: Explaining Foreign Recruitment by Modern State Militaries

Crop type mapping without field-level labels: Random forest transfer and unsupervised clustering techniques

Oil palm expansion and deforestation in Southwest Cameroon associated with proliferation of informal mills

Choosing the Japanese Way: Thilawa Special Economic Zone in Myanmar