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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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Policy Briefs

Thirteenth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum

2015

Journal Articles

American scientists as public citizens: 70 years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 2015

Policy Briefs

Korean Unification: An American View

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2014

Annual Reports

Shorenstein APARC Center Overview 2013-2014

Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2014

Journal Articles

China's Rise, Japan's Quest, and South Korea-US Co-operation

Global Asia, 2014

Books

The Evolving Sphere of Food Security

Oxford University Press, 2014

Policy Briefs

Tailored Engagement: Toward an Effective and Sustainable Inter-Korean Relations Policy

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2014

Commentary

Friendless Obama Needs Middle Eastern Allies of Convenience

Financial Times, 2014

Keynote Address: Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal

2014

Journal Articles

Getting caught with our plants down: the risks of a global crop yield slowdown from climate trends in the next two decades

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Environmental Research Letters, 2014

Books

Modes of Engagement

2014

Journal Articles

The American Calculus of Military Intervention

Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 2014

Journal Articles

Immigration into Europe: Economic Discrimination, Violence, and Public Policy

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Annual Review of Political Science, 2014

Policy Briefs

Wartime History Issues in Asia: Pathways to Reconciliation

2014

Working Papers

India’s latest and largest workfare program: evaluation and recommendations

Working Paper, 2014

Testimonies

Testimony on China's healthcare sector

2014

Policy Briefs

Conference Report: Trans-Pacific Partnership [Oct. 2013]

2014

Commentary

Iran's Path to Nuclear Peace

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The New York Times, 2014

Books

Comparative Institutional Analysis: Theory, Corporations and East Asia. Selected Papers of Masahiko Aoki

Edward Elgar Pub, 2014

Policy Briefs

Tenth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum

Shorenstein APARC, 2013

Working Papers

The Economic Costs of Drug-Trafficking Violence in Mexico

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2013

Journal Articles

Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of Making the Electrical Grid “Smart”

Information and Culture, 2013

Books

Asia's Middle Powers?

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2013

Books

Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa

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Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment, 2013

Commentary

What You Need to Know about the Third-Party Doctrine

The Atlantic, 2013