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Browse FSI scholarship on geopolitics, global health, energy, cybersecurity and more.

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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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Journal Articles

From Public to Private Standards for Tropical Commodities: A Century of Global Discourse on Land Governance on the Forest Frontier

Forests, 2015

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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

Teaching to the Tails: Teacher Performance Pay and the Distribution of Student Achievement

Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique [Jan. 2015]

Serious Business: Diminishing the Size of the Informal Sector in Medellin, Colombia

Growing Singapore's Water Industry: From Water Scarcity to Global Hydrohub

Customs Reform in Indonesia

Facilitating Trade through Effective Border Control: Costa Rica's Challenging Reform Agenda

Gifford Pinchot and Sustainable Forest Management

Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission

Establishing the Individual Credit Registry System in China

From Public to Private Standards for Tropical Commodities: A Century of Global Discourse on Land Governance on the Forest Frontier

The United States and China: Same Bed, Different Dreams, Shared Destiny

Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970–1979

Conference Report: Lobbying and Campaign Finance [November 2014]

“Critical Engagement”: British Policy toward the DPRK

Nuclear Vulnerability

Agricultural water management at the village level in northern China

After State Socialism: The Political Origins of Transitional Recessions

Solutions to Political Polarization in America

New Channels Dialogue 2015 Final Report

Do No Harm: The Know-Do Gap and Quality of Care for Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in India

Assessment of the Development of Groundwater Market in Rural China

History of partnership between agro-industries and oil palm smallholders in Cameroon

The Role of Markets, Technology, and Policy in Generating Palm-Oil Demand in Indonesia

Historical Aspirations and Russia’s Pursuit of International Status

Why Status Matters in World Politics (book chapter)