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Updated: August 14, 2007
Daily Analysis
Sierra Leone’s elections were peaceful and participation was high but concerns remain that the conditions that sparked its long civil war are unchanged.
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa, Nation Building, Population
July 17, 2007
Podcast
Dalton Conley, professor of sociology at New York University, discusses sub-Saharan Africa’s high fertility rates and their implications for the continent's economic growth.
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa, Migration
May 29, 2007
Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in China, Democracy and Human Rights
May 15, 2007
| Authors: | Travis Fox Maureen Fan |
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Must Read
As part of the China project, Washington Post takes a detailed look at social and economic factors reshaping China's traditional families.
See more in China, Economic Development, Society and Culture, Migration
May 9, 2007
| Author: | Gaurav Tiwari, Research Associate |
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Article
New York Sun
See more in Ethnicity and National Identity
May 2007
| Author: | Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Fellow for Africa |
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Article
Current History
See more in Africa, Society and Culture, Population
April 27, 2007
Daily Analysis
Many of the world’s present civil conflicts occur among populations with large numbers of idle young people. Demographers say foreign policymakers should pay more attention to this “youth bulge.”
See more in Middle East
May/June 2007
| Authors: | Nicholas N. Eberstadt Hans Groth |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The population of western Europe is aging steadily, and the region's birthrate is well below the replacement level, but Europe's elderly are exceptionally healthy. That means they could be more productive for longer than their predecessors were. If western European governments learn to tap this potential, healthy aging could become the region's next great economic asset.
See more in Western Europe, Health
March 30, 2007
Must Read
This report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council says that Iraq now represents a crisis of population displacement. It says more than 727,000 people are estimated to have been internally displaced due to sectarian and generalized violence in Iraq between February 2006 and March 2007.
See more in Iraq, Population
March 26, 2007
| Author: | George Packer |
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Must Read
A feature by George Packer in the New Yorker that explores the changing attitudes of Iraqis who supported the US-led invasion and sought to work with the occupation authorities as advisors and translators.
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Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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