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

Does Computer-Assisted Learning Improve Learning Outcomes? Evidence From a Randomized Experiment in Migrant Schools in Beijing

2015

Case Studies

The Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA)

2015

Journal Articles

Rapid cessation of acute diarrhea using a novel solution of bioactive polyphenols: a randomized trial in Nicaraguan children

PeerJ, 2015

Working Papers

Do Politicians' Relatives Get Better Jobs? Evidence from Municipal Elections [May 2015]

2015

Books

Reflections on the Seventieth Anniversary of the End of the Pacific War: Eight Stanford Scholars Write Their Own August Statement

2015

Books

Teaching the Language of Wider Communication, Minority Students, and Overall Educational Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Qinghai Province, China

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015

Journal Articles

Evaluating Cost-effectiveness of Interventions That Affect Fertility and Childbearing: How Health Effects Are Measured Matters

Medical Decision Making, 2015

Books

China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed

Harvard University Press, 2015

Journal Articles

Exploring the Dropout Rates and Causes of Dropout in Upper-Secondary Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Schools in China

International Journal of Education Development, 2015

Case Studies

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

Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966–1971

School Districting and the Origins of Residential Land Price Inequality

The Beheading of Criminal Organizations and the Dynamics of Violence in Mexico’s Drug War

Does Computer-Assisted Learning Improve Learning Outcomes? Evidence From a Randomized Experiment in Migrant Schools in Beijing

The Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA)

Rapid cessation of acute diarrhea using a novel solution of bioactive polyphenols: a randomized trial in Nicaraguan children

Do Politicians' Relatives Get Better Jobs? Evidence from Municipal Elections [May 2015]

Reflections on the Seventieth Anniversary of the End of the Pacific War: Eight Stanford Scholars Write Their Own August Statement

太平洋戦争終結７０周年に考える：８人のスタンフォード研究者による終戦の日の談話

'Goebbels: A Biography,' by Peter Longerich

Japan's financial regulatory responses to the global financial crisis

Teaching the Language of Wider Communication, Minority Students, and Overall Educational Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Qinghai Province, China

Staffing Subsidies and the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Simulating the interaction of a renewable portfolio standard with electricity and carbon markets

The Retirement Consumption Puzzle in China

Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts

Why We Need Persistent Questioning About Civilian Deaths by Drones

Evaluating Cost-effectiveness of Interventions That Affect Fertility and Childbearing: How Health Effects Are Measured Matters

China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed

Exploring the Dropout Rates and Causes of Dropout in Upper-Secondary Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Schools in China

Administrative Decentralization in Peru

Geography and Gridlock in the United States

Explaining Institutional Change: Policy Areas, Outside Options, and the Bretton Woods Institutions

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

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