The World at 7 Billion: Building a Sustainable Future
Population growth “is highly concentrated in what are today the poorest and least well-governed areas of the world,” said George Mason University professor Jack Goldstone at the Wilson Center on...
View ArticleDemographic & Environmental Dynamics Shape 'Global Trends 2030' Scenarios
“However rapid change has been over the past couple decades, the rate of change will accelerate in the future,” states the newest quadrennial report from the National Intelligence Council (NIC), Global...
View ArticleEastern Europe’s Most Difficult Transition: Public Health and Demographic...
Dr. Murray Feshbach was one of the first scholars to point out the devastating political and socio-economic effects of state communism’s failure to seriously address decaying public health and...
View ArticleObama Can’t Destroy the Islamic State Without Iran’s Help
Iran has already contributed to progress in Iraq by agreeing to the removal of Nouri al-Maliki, the divisive Shiite partisan who was prime minister. Iran now must support an inclusive Iraqi regime that...
View ArticleHong Kong is Not Tiananmen
Hong Kong’s protests present a major problem for China’s leadership in Beijing. This is not 1989, when China used its army and tanks to dispel student protests in Tiananmen Square. Both China and the...
View ArticleAfrica's Stalled Fertility Transition: Causes, Cures, and Consequences?
“Sub-Saharan Africa’s young people are in effect the global labor force of the future,” said Jack Goldstone at the Wilson Center on October 15. “Whether they are productive, how large that cohort turns...
View ArticleUS-China Relations After APEC: The nature of Sino-American relations is...
Last week’s APEC meeting in Beijing shed new light on China’s relationship with America and the world. It has become increasing clear what China wants. China seeks a role in Asia comparable to the role...
View ArticleFrom Revival to Reversal: Trajectories and Forecasts of Russia's Population...
From 2007 to 2014, Russia enjoyed unprecedented demographic success. The abysmal fertility rates of the 1990s were left behind and Russia experienced some of the the largest fertility improvements...
View ArticleThe Sahel Beyond the Headlines: Population, Environment, and Security Dynamics
Between the Sahara to the north and savanna to the south lies the semi-arid Sahel, a region stretching from Senegal to Sudan that has experienced desperate poverty, climate change, malnutrition, and...
View ArticleTwo World-Changing Deals
After endless, and sometimes seemingly hopeless, negotiations, diplomats have produced two new multinational deals that go a long way toward righting what’s been going wrong in the world: one on...
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