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FSI's scholars tackle a range of issues, from longstanding concerns like nuclear nonproliferation and military defense to new challenges such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and emerging regional conflicts.

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The Myth of the AI Race

Treating AI as a contest with a single finish line and a single victor is a misleading premise that fundamentally misrepresents how the technology is developing and how United States and China are competing, argues Colin Kahl.

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NATO Did Not Cause Putin's Imperial War

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine was primarily about Putin’s imperial beliefs, not great power politics, and that Russian fear of NATO was not a major factor in the march to war, write Jim Goldgeier and Brian Taylor.

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The Dangerous Fallout of Trump’s Retreat to the Hemisphere

Gabrielius Landsbergis cautions that America's return to 20th century-style spheres of influence has the potential to create severe strategic dilemmas for the United States, as allies turn away and emboldened enemies begin to converge.

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Featured Scholars

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Rose Gottemoeller

William J. Perry Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution

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David Relman

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor

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Scott Sagan

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science

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Amy Zegart

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

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Commentary

U.S and Turkey: Rebuilding a Fractured Alliance, The

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International Herald Tribune, 2006

Journal Articles

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: A View from China

Nonproliferation Review, 2006

Books

Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War

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Stanford University Press, 2006

Journal Articles

What to Do in Iraq: A Roundtable

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Foreign Affairs, 2006

Journal Articles

Refugee Security and the Organizational Logic of Legal Mandates

Georgetown Journal of International Law, 2006

Policy Briefs

Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations

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Council on Foreign Relations, 2006

Journal Articles

Applying the Odious Debts Doctrine while Preserving Legitimate Lending

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Working Papers

Contagion Deterred: Preemptive Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union (the Case of Belarus)

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Books

With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006

Commentary

Battlefield: U.S.

Los Angeles Times, 2006

Commentary

N.S.A.'s Math Problem, The

The New York Times, 2006

Journal Articles

Sverdlovsk Revisited: Modeling Human Inhalation Anthrax

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006

Journal Articles

Criminal Law: Anglo-American Privacy and Surveillance

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 2006

Working Papers

Stabilizing Iraq: Options for Democracy, Security, and Development

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Working Papers

2006 Mexican Elections: A Challenge for Democracy

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Journal Articles

Risk Assessment for and Strategies to Reduce Perioperative Pulmonary Complications for Patients Undergoing Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Guideline from the American College of Physicians

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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2006

Journal Articles

Culture and Combat in the Colonies: The Indian Army in the Second World War

Journal of Contemporary History, 2006

Journal Articles

Curbing Asian Corruption: An Impossible Dream?

Current History, 2006

Journal Articles

Sovereign Democracy and Shrinking Political Space

Russia Business Watch, 2006

Working Papers

The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Journal Articles

Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies, The

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Review of International Studies, 2006

Working Papers

Is More Better? Evaluating External-Led State Building After 1989

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Journal Articles

Slide Rules: What Civil War Looks Like

The New Republic, 2006

Commentary

Improving Math Ed--Bush Right About That

San Francisco Chronicle, 2006

Working Papers

Greenhouse Gas Implications in Large Scale Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries: Examples from China and India

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #54, 2006