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

Passive Parenting and its Association with Early Child Development

Early Child Development and Care, 2017

Journal Articles

Historical effects of CO2 and climate trends on global crop water demand

Nature Climate Change, 2017

Journal Articles

The effect of a micronutrient powder home fortification program on anemia and cognitive outcomes among young children in rural China: a cluster randomized trial

BMC Public Health, 2017

Journal Articles

Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Free Glasses on Purchase of Children's Glasses in China: The PRICE (Potentiating Rural Investment in Children's Eyecare) Study

PLOS ONE, 2017

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

Passive Parenting and its Association with Early Child Development

Historical effects of CO2 and climate trends on global crop water demand

The effect of a micronutrient powder home fortification program on anemia and cognitive outcomes among young children in rural China: a cluster randomized trial

Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Free Glasses on Purchase of Children's Glasses in China: The PRICE (Potentiating Rural Investment in Children's Eyecare) Study

Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies

Our allies are afraid. Here’s how Trump can reassure them.

Two “Popes” to Speak for the World: The Pope and the United Nations Secretary General in World Politics

‘Sons of the soil’: A model of assimilation and population control

Oil palm expansion in Cameroon: Insights into sustainability opportunities and challenges in Africa

Hoist on their own petards? The reinvention and collapse of authoritarian successor parties

The Education Gap of China's Migrant Children and Rural Counterparts

Increasing drought and diminishing benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean yields across the US Midwest

Why ‘Populism’ Should Not Be an Epithet

The Populist Scare of the 1890s – And the Aftermath that Changed American Populism

Populism is a Symptom Rather than a Cause: The Decline of the Center-left and the Rise of Threats to Liberal Democracy

Populism: Content and Form

Parties, Policy Convergence and the Challenges of Finance Capitalism

When the Banal Becomes Political: The EU in the Age of Populism

Vladimir Putin’s Populism, Russia’s Revival, and Liberalism Lost

The Views of Populists: What Trump Voters’ Perspectives and Perceptions of Trump Voters Tell Us About U.S. Democracy

Populism in Comparative Perspective: America and the 2016 Presidential Election

Populism, Partisan Convergence and Redistribution in Western Europe

Bipolar Disorders: Varieties of Capitalism and Populist Out-flanking on the Left and Right

Is Russia a Threat to Western Democracy? Russian Intervention in Foreign Elections, 1991-2017

The Putin Regime, Populism Promotion and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election