Current global population growth rates and consumption patterns are not environmentally sustainable because rapid population growth strains resources and contributes to environmental degradation. Integrated population and environment approaches allow governments to effectively address these at both a macro and micro level.

U.S. foreign aid will be more effective if increased investments are made in high population-growth countries for reproductive health and family planning programs. These programs are cost-effective because they help reduce the stress that rapid population growth places on a country's economic, environmental, and social resources.

One of the greatest challenges facing some of the poorest developing countries is the urgent need for comprehensive, integrated reproductive health services, including family planning. If unanswered, this challenge will jeopardize poverty reduction measures taken by governments, civil society, and aid-based organizations and threaten their long-term economic growth prospects.

This Policy Innovation Memorandum recommends the United States redefine "peacemaking" for Darfur in order to better achieve its objectives there.

In the latest Capital Flows Comment, Francis E. Warnock challenges the assumptions underlying the new consensus in favor of capital controls.

Adam Segal discusses the steps the United States should take to define the rules of cyberspace governance.

This Working Paper analyzes trends in the American economy's performance over the past two decades; in particular, it examines changes in employment and value added in U.S. industries.

This Working Paper reviews different possible Iranian nuclear capabilities, examining the conditions under which Iran should be considered a genuinely nuclear-capable power. It also assesses the regional and global consequences of a nuclear-capable and nuclear-armed Iran.

Highs and volatile energy prices have driven the regulation of commodity financial markets to the forefront of the U.S. and G20 policy agendas, including the upcoming 2011 G20 meeting in France. Integrated commodity markets require international policy coordination, but not all policy initiatives are equally desirable. Improving Energy Market Regulation: Domestic and International Issues examines a range of policy options at both the domestic and international levels.

Managing the World's Dollar Dependency examines the U.S. dollar's unique reserve-currency status and recommends novel mechanisms to discourage imprudent reserve accumulation and the need for precautionary reserve holdings.

Further provocations by North Korea as well as other dangerous military interactions on or around the Korean peninsula remain a serious risk and carry the danger of unintended escalation.

This study examines low-carbon technology innovation and absorption in China, India, and Brazil. It recommends a course for U.S. policy that promotes accelerated innovation and adoption of new technologies while protecting U.S. commercial interests.

This second installment of the Capital Flows Quarterly series investigates two factors that could substantially alter the long-run value of the U.S. dollar: the dollar's reserve status and the sustainability of U.S. international debt.

This essay analyzes recent political and economic trends in Europe, as European Union member states--and Germany in particular--deprioritize the goal of integration.

This essay examines the state of the European Union post-eurozone crisis, and assesses the European Union's prospects as a model for regional integration efforts around the globe.

This essay assesses the causes and consequences of the renationalization of politics in the European Union.

This essay assesses the need for deeper integration in the European Union, while questioning where the current European leadership has the vision to implement such reforms in the wake of the euro crisis.

This essay examines the historical roots of the eurozone crisis, tracing the roots of ongoing political and economic problems back to agreements that were made around German reunification in 1989.

This Contingency Planning Memorandum describes the events and trends that indicate Nigerian elections are following a violent trajectory and recommends U.S. policy options for preventing and containing fragmentation of Nigerian society.

This Working Paper examines alternatives to the current global governance frameworks for addressing climate change.