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

Publications

Journal Articles

Knowledge Management for Democratic Governance of Socio-Technical Systems (Chapter in The Future of Digital Democracy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.)

Springer, Cham, 2018

Books

On the Spirit of Rights

2018

Journal Articles

Do Resources Matter? Effects of an In-Class Library Project on Student Independent Reading Habits in Primary Schools in Rural China

Reading Research Quarterly, 2018

Journal Articles

Impact of a Local Vision Care Center on Glasses Ownership and Wearing Behavior in Northwestern Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018

The Effect of Providing Free Eyeglasses on Children's Mental Health Outcomes in China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018

Journal Articles

Understanding the Situation of China’s Left‐Behind Children: A Mixed‐Methods analysis

The Developing Economies, 2018

Policy Briefs

Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing

2018

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

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

Breastfeeding and the Risk of Illness among Young Children in Rural China

Decentralization and the environment: Assessing smallholder oil palm development in Indonesia

Probabilistic Performance Assessment vs. the Safety Case Approach

Is development uniquely modern? Ancient Athens on the doorstep

The Russian Model of Digital Control and Its Significance

Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times

Governance of the global commons: a question of supply and demand, the answer of polycentricism

Evolution and Structure of the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management

The European Silk Road: Montenegro's Decision to Build a New Highway

Knowledge Management for Democratic Governance of Socio-Technical Systems (Chapter in The Future of Digital Democracy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.)

On the Spirit of Rights

Do Resources Matter? Effects of an In-Class Library Project on Student Independent Reading Habits in Primary Schools in Rural China

Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Early Development of Children in Rural Guizhou Province, China

CHOLERA IN YEMEN: A CASE STUDY OF EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE

The IMF as a Biased Global Insurance Mechanism: Asymmetrical Moral Hazard, Reserve Accumulation, and Financial Crises

Caregiver Depression and Early Child Development: A Mixed-Methods Study From Rural China

Impact of a Local Vision Care Center on Glasses Ownership and Wearing Behavior in Northwestern Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Future Visions: Opportunities and Challenges of Korean Studies in North America

Model vs. experiment to predict crop losses—Response

FSI Publications 2017 - 2018

The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China

The Effect of Providing Free Eyeglasses on Children's Mental Health Outcomes in China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Understanding the Situation of China’s Left‐Behind Children: A Mixed‐Methods analysis

Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing