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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

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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

Anti-anti Populism, or: The Threat of Populism to U.S. Democracy Is Exaggerated

From Competition to Polarization: How Populists Change Party Systems to Concentrate Power

The Political Geography of American Populism

When Does Populism Become a Threat to Democracy?

The Paradoxes of American Populism

Economic Nationalism as a Driving Force of Populism in the U.S.

The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence from Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom

The Health of American Democracy: Comparing Perceptions of Experts and the American Public

Populism and the Erosion of Democracy in Poland and in Hungary

Populism and Competitive Authoritarianism

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

Retail Pricing to Support the 21st Century Distribution Grid

PCSK9 Inhibitors Economics and Policy

Weathering the Rise of a New World Order

The Happiest Graph on Earth

Left Behind in the Brexit Capital?

Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Neglected Tropical Disease in China: The Case of Neurocystocercosis in Tibetan Farming Communities

International society’s challenge of targeted killing by drones