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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

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

Sidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Localized Technology To Teach Around Taboos

Wealth Inequality and Democracy

The Effect of Family-Friendly Policies on Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply

Nationalism, Populism, Islamism

Trump's North Korea Policy: Let China Do It

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

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

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

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

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

Unpacking Teacher Professional Development

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

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

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

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

France Isn't Good For The Jews

Architects of Occupation

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