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

Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being?

America Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017

Journal Articles

Development and Validation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Measures of Potentially Preventable Emergency Department (ED) Visits: The ED Prevention Quality Indicators for General Health Conditions

Health Services Research, 2017

Working Papers

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Maternal Health Care in India

2017

Commentary

Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform

The New England Journal of Medicine, 2017

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

Voting Behavior in the Council of the European Union: The Effect of the Trio Presidency

Trump's North Korea Policy: Let China Do It

The political economy of biodiesel in an era of low oil prices

The Limits of Institutional Reform in the United States and the Global Trade Regime

Association Between Women’s Empowerment and Maternal and Child Nutrition in Kalale District of Northern Benin

Is Trump learning — or ad-libbing — on foreign policy?

On Cyber-Enabled Information/Influence Warfare and Manipulation

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Why Japan (Still) Matters for Global Competition

Changing the Script at Mar-a-Lago

Providing driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants in California improves traffic safety

Unpacking Teacher Professional Development

Structuring Cooperative Nuclear Risk Reduction Initiatives with China

Uneasy Partnerships: China’s Engagement with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform

When Science Brought Americans and Russians Together

Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

Population Policy, Fertility Decline, and Sex Selection: New Evidence from China under Mao

France Isn't Good For The Jews

Architects of Occupation

Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being?

Rural energy access through solar home systems: Use patterns and opportunities for improvement

Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project

Colonial iron in context: the Trianon slave shackle from Mauritius

Development and Validation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Measures of Potentially Preventable Emergency Department (ED) Visits: The ED Prevention Quality Indicators for General Health Conditions

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Maternal Health Care in India

Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform