AEI.Org: Scholar: Nicholas Eberstadt

Slipping Growth

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

With few born and far too many dying, Russia is caught in a demographic straitjacket.

What to Read on North Korean Politics

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

An annotated syllabus on North Korean politics, culture, and economy.

Russia's Great Leap Downward

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah tackle Russia's grim demographic future, and what it portends for the West.

Help That Helps

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

A new business model for foreign aid is the main hope--perhaps the only hope--for fixing a broken system.

Too Sick to Prosper

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

If we only had vital statistics to go by, we might easily believe Russia is a country trapped in a prolonged and devastating war against health.

A New Plan for Pyongyang

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

As Presidents Barack Obama and Lee Myung-bak prepare for their first official summit next week, the North Korean nuclear crisis is surely at the top of their agenda.

Pyongyang Has a Strategy--Do We?

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We must recognize North Korea for what it is, instead of what we want it to be.

Kim's Crumbling Dynasty

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Kim Jong Il's search for a successor could turn out to be bigger news than this weekend's missile launch.

Drunken Nation: Russia's Depopulation Bomb

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Since 1992, Russia's human numbers have been progressively dwindling.

Poor Statistics

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Washington lacks the statistical tools to assess--and thus address efficiently--the coming surge in need.

Curbing the Myth of Overpopulation to Fight Poverty

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Obama must put pressure on the United Nations Population Fund to concentrate on the health of women and babies and to stop wasting money on wrongheaded population-control schemes.

Curbing the Myth of Overpopulation to Fight Poverty

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Obama must put pressure on the United Nations Population Fund to concentrate on the health of women and babies and to stop wasting money on wrongheaded population-control schemes.

What Went Wrong?

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The Bush administration's policyfailed inNorth Korea.

Obama and Asia

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The new president cannot afford to ignore Asia.

Prepare to Deal with Discontinuities

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Rising Ambitions, Sinking Population

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Russia's economic ambitions are at odds with its population trend.

The Poverty of the Official Poverty Rate

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Little has changed in the way the federal government measures poverty since 1965.

The World Shouldn't Fear the Collapse of North Korea

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Is the stability of an internationally criminal, cruelly dictatorial, nuclear-weapons-equipped North Korea really somethingthatshould valued above all conceivable alternatives?

Should Sex-Selective Abortions Be Outlawed?

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Sex-selective abortion is changing the demographics of entire countries; a moral campaign must be waged against it.

Failures of Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

South Korea'sdecade-longexperiment in economic diplomacy with North Korea has proved to be a failure.

Aging Gracefully

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Europe can solve its demographic crisis by unlocking the value of health.

Dying Russia

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Alarming demographic and healthtrends make it difficult for Russia to propel much-needed economic growth and development.

What If?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

With the U.S.-ROK alliance in question, the United States must assert its military posture, maintain relations with Japan, defend sea lines of communication, and maintain a role in Asia.

A Diplomatic Charade

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Unseemly talks with Kim Jong II pose a security threat to theUnited States and itsallies.

A Chance to Rein In North Korea

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Last week's presidential election in South Korea presages a sea change in that key U.S. ally's policies toward North Korea.

Toward an America-Free Korea

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:00:00 +0100

The termination of the U.S.-South Korean alliance would prove harmful to South Korea.

China's One-Child Mistake

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100

With a shrinking working-age population,there will be no one left totake care of the country's retirees.

China's One-Child Mistake

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100

With a shrinking working-age population, who will take care of the country's retirees?

Russia's Demographic "X Factor"

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Washington Profile, the only Russian-language information agency based in Washington, D.C., interviews Nicholas Eberstadt about Russia's demographic decline, heath-care problems, and plans to increase birth rate.

Beware the Population Alarmists

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100

A new UN report wrongly urges governments to curb supposed overpopulation problems.

America the Fertile

Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100

America is exceptional for many reasons; among them, childbearing patterns and immigration absorption.

Demographic Trends in Northeast Asia

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100

How drastically will demographic trends affect Asia in the coming decades?

Healthy Old Europe

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100

AlthoughEurope's population is aging, the continent need not become a glorious rest home or a genteel but fading open-air museum. There is another way.

Die Gesundheit ist Europas Trumpfkarte

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Europa droht wirtschaftlich zunehmend gegenüber den USA zurückzufallen, auch aus demografischen Gründen.

Save the Russians!

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Citizens of the former superpower are dying in catastrophic numbers. For very little, we could prove they have not been forgotten.

Born in the USA

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0100

If the American moment passes, or U.S. power in other ways declines, it will notbe because of demography.

Healthy Old Europe

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Western Europe isin a demographic declinedue to low birthrates and an ever aging population.

Deja Vu

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:00:00 +0100

The six-party agreement in Beijing on North Korea's nuclear programs was a strategic blunder masquerading as a diplomatic triumph.

Saving North Korea's Refugees

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:00:00 +0100

How would an underground railroad help North Korea and its citizens?

Demographic Exceptionalism in the United States

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Since before the revolution, America has considered itself exceptional.

Kim Jong Il's Nuclear Ambitions

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

What is the world’s most worrisome and destabilizing nuclear-proliferation hotspot these days?

Statement by Nicholas Eberstadt to the House Committee on Ways and Means

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Does the U.S. poverty rate accurately describe trends and patterns in the condition that most Americans would think of as poverty?

Critical Cross-Cutting Issues Facing Northeast Asia

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Over the coming generation it is entirely likely that demographic trends are going to change the Asia-Pacific region in unprecedented and absolutely revolutionary ways

Reflections on "The Health Crisis in the USSR"

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Aquarter century has passed since the publication of "The Health Crisis in the USSR."

Haiti: the Time Bomb in Our Backyard

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Haiti will be lost without an inspired global effort that goes far beyond the traditional pathways of better education and agriculture.

Haiti in Extremis

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0100

What do we come home learning from a brief fact-finding sojourn to Haiti? In a sentence: Security comes first.

Pyongyang Phooey

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0100

With Pyongyang's announcement to "conduct a nuclear test" to "bolster its war deterrent for self-defense," the world has been given yet another reminder of the North Korean game plan.

Why Poverty Doesn't Rate

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Without a clearer sense of where we stand, how we got here and where we are headed, most initiatives aimed at reducing poverty in the United States will be needlessly ineffective.

The Mismeasure of Poverty

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0100

America’s most relied-upon metric for charting a course in our national effort to reduce and eliminate poverty appears to offer unreliable, and indeed increasingly misleading, soundings on where we are today, where we have come, and where we seem to be headed.

Economic Implications of a Fundamental Shift in North Korean Security Policy

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100

While many parts of the world have joined in the profound international integration that has occurred in the postwar era, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has maintained a distinctly bellicose and autarkic international posture since its founding in 1948.

The Changing Demographics of the U.S. Southern Security Perimeter

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100

This paper attempts to use available demographic data to cast light on trends indicative of, or potentially supportive of, an accretion of security threats from "the U.S. southern security perimeter."

Nuclear Shakedown

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea's missile launch reveals that theKimg Jong Iland his inner circle are ready to ratchet up their confrontation with "the imperialists" to a new and still more dangerous level.

Growing Old the Hard Way

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Rapid and pronounced population aging represents a highly uneven, largely unappreciated, and as yet almost entirely undiscounted long-term risk for the world's emerging markets.

Doom and Demography

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100

For decades, the world has been haunted by ominous and recurrent reports of impending demographic doom.

Doom and Demography

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100

P. T. Bauer on the Population Question

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0100

I first met Peter Bauer in October 1977. At the time I was 21, and very Left.

More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach toward Africa

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The economic tragedy that is post-colonial African history, indeed, arguably constitutes the twentieth century’s single greatest developmental failure.

Old Age Tsunami

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Will the aging of the Third World have unanticipated spillover effects for the world economy? The answer is not yet clear--but it is none too early to begin asking the question.

A Skeptical View

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The latestjoint statement affirms all of the "rewards-for-freeze" precepts that helped to finance the survival of the North Korean state--and the development of nuclear weaponry--in the earlier 1994 accord.

Broken Yardstick

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0100

For nowwe should recognize that America has already achieved far more success in the war against want than our sorry poverty rate can admit.

White Families Are in Trouble, Too

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Clearly, the crisis of the family is not just a "black thing." In practically all of today's rich, free societies, the family is in trouble.

The Northern America Fertility Divide

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100

If the North American fertility divergence continues, it may become an example of how countries can converge at the macroeconomic level while diverging at the micro level.

A Charade Masquerading as Diplomacy

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The six-party talks are no way to convince North Korea to give up its nukes.

Baseless and Inflammatory Innuendo

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Response to aKorea Timesstory that misrepresentsEberstadt's views on North Korea.

Fatal Denial

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Unchecked, HIV and AIDS will continue to spread through Islamic countries. No longer a matter of humanitarian assistance, the pandemicis nowan importantglobal security issue.

The Muslim Face of AIDS

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Leaders in Muslim countries who have denied AIDS must acknowledge the threat or risk losing their community of believers to a global plague.

North Korea's Weapons Quest

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100

For America and its allies, the costs and dangers of failing to make the world safe from North Korea are incalculably higher and more expensive than confronting Kim Jong-il's regime.

Bring Them Home

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100

South Korea has become the home of freedom in the peninsula. Now the task is to extend that freedom to the North.

A Union of Certain Age

Thu, 12 May 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The greatest demographic challenge facing Europe today is not population decline, but the unfinished task of making loyal Europeans out of all its immigrants.

Rethinking the Population Problem

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Much of the anti-natal and neo-Malthusian literature reveals an appalling ignorance about real human beings--especially poor ones.

Economic Implications of a "Bold Switchover" in DPRK Security Policy

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0100

This essay examines the potentialities for a still-socialist DPRK economic policy, international financial assistance, and North Korean economic performance.

Pyongyang's Option: "Ordinary" Stalinism

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0100

There may be considerably more scope for applying pressure to Pyongyang today than many appreciate becausePyongyang has viablealternatives to its current economic course.

What Surprise?

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Kim Jong Il is doing his best to make the world safe for the DPRK. Our task, by contrast, is to make the world safe from the DPRK. This will be a difficult, expensive, and dangerous undertaking.

Kim's Nuclear Winter

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The ever more menacing North Korean nuclear program has in practice encountered only token resistance from the United States and others.

A New International Engagement Framework for North Korea?

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Can the economic system of the Democractic People's Republic of Korea be successfully reformed?

Russia, the Sick Man of Europe

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The Russian Federation today is in the grip of a steadily tightening mesh of serious demographic problems, for which the term "crisis" is no overstatement.

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Emboldened by his reelection, President George W. Bush will turn up the heat on North Korea.

Tear Down This Tyranny

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

If North Korea's threat to America is greater four years from now than today, that will be a George W. Bush administration legacy.

U.S. Northeast Asia Policy in a Second George W. Bush Administration

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The North Korean regime will not be “talked” out of its nuclear weapons program.

The Persistence of North Korea

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Can North Korea survive--as a distinct regime, an autonomous state, a specific political-economic system, and a sovereign country?

Russia Doomed to Be the Sick Man of Europe

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Russia has little chance of narrowing the income gap with theEuropean Unionunless it also closes the yawning health gap that separates Russians from the rest of Europe.

Health, Inequality, and the Scholars

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100

A number of influential recent studies purport to show that inequality in income--not poverty per se--has detrimental health consequences.

Russia's Demographic Straitjacket

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Russia is at the brink of a steep demographic decline--a peacetime population hemorrhage framed by a collapse of the birth rate and a catastrophic surge in the death rate.

Alternative Scenarios for the Korean Peninsula

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author discusses energy security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and science and technology in Asia, as well as alternative outcomes to the North Korean nuclear crisis.

The North Korean Nightmare

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The most recent nuclear crisis with North Korea raises further questions about its leaders' ability to manage crises.

Too Sick to Grow and Prosper

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Russia has little chance of narrowing the income gap with the European Unionunless it also closes the yawning health gap that separates Russians from the rest of Europe.

Four Surprises in Global Demography

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Whileotherdeveloped areas gradually drop off the roster of the world's major population centers, the United States actually rises, from fourth largest in 1950 to third largest in 2000.

The Dangers of Self-Delusion

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Appeasement failed with Adolf Hitler, and it will not work with North Korea's Kim Jong Il.

China's Unmarriageable Men

Tue, 25 May 2004 00:00:00 +0100

China will be the first great power in Asia to suffer from atwenty-first century "bride shortage."

Bleak Prospects for China's Aging Population

Mon, 24 May 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Difficulties facing China's aging population include a lack of a national pension system and limited familial resources.

The North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Thu, 20 May 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The Population Implosion

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author reviews The Empty Cradle by Phillip Longman.

Don't Believe North Korea's Economic Reforms

Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea has not even begun to tinker with the macro policies, or promote the micro institutions, that would permit a China- or Vietnam-style export response.

Democracy's Demons

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0100

South Korea's impeachment crisis exposes the sordid opportunism of its politics.

If You Can Keep It . . .

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0100

South Korea's current travails with President Roh Roh Mu Hyun will reinforce North Korea's appetite for an unconditional Korean reunification--on the North's terms.

A New Twenty Years' Crisis?

Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0100

There is no coalescence around a strategy for North Korea, in the United States or among its partners in Northeast Asia. The situation is tilting by the day in an incalculable direction.

Missing Girls Bode Ill for China in Future Decades

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

How can we use population indicators to anticipate, with some reasonable hope of accuracy, the impact of yet-unfolding demographic forces on the balance of international power?

The Emptying of Russia

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Population trends and demographic characteristics in Russia today are severely--and adversely--altering the realm of the possible for that country and its people.

La Grande Illusion, Korean Style

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The notion that the Kim regime has absolutely no intention of ever giving up its nuclear capability--at any price, for any reason--is too terrible to face.

Power and Population in Asia

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

How can we use population indicators to anticipate, with some reasonable hope of accuracy, the impact of yet-unfolding demographic forces on the balance of international power?

Atomic Shakedown

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Pyongyang's promise to disarm is just a cunning financial ploy.

The Shakedown State

Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Hopes are still high that North Korea can eventually be talked into trading away, or selling off, its nuclear program. North Korea's money flows cast a somber light on that prospect.

Diplomatic Fantasyland

Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Progress toward a diplomatic resolution of the nuclear impasse cannot be expected without fundamental changes in outlook and policy on the part of Pyongyang's leadership.

A Deal with North Korea? Dream On

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea is entirely unlikely to be talked out of its nuclear weapons program.

AIDS

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0100

A look at China's economy suggests that the country is particularly vulnerable to HIVAIDS and other epidemic illnesses.

Reckless Driving

Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Kim Jong Il's erratic moves strengthen the hawks' case for regime change.

North and South Korean Economic Ventures

Wed, 07 May 2003 00:00:00 +0100

If North Korea Were Really Reforming, How Could We Tell--and What Would We Be Able to See?

Fri, 02 May 2003 00:00:00 +0100

War Games

Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Kim Jong Il's capacity to stir up trouble will be instantly revitalized if the U.S. goes to war with Iraq.

A Turn of the Screw

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0100

How do you nix Kim Jong Il's atomic ambition? Squeeze him economically.

Bracing for AIDS Crisis in Eurasia

Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0100

The Bush administration would be well advised to devote more of its anti-AIDS energies into rousing these three governments to embrace HIV strategies of their own.

Evil, Yes. Genius, No.

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Kim Jong Il, for his part, is alive and well but prone to egregious lapses of judgment, especially in a crunch.

Lots of Possibilities, None Good

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0100

From Helsinki to Pyongyang

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Population Aspects of Communist Countries

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Just before 1989-91, over a third of humanity lived under communist regimes,representing a variety of cultures, ethnicities, levels of material attainment, and demographic structures.

Epidemic Disease

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Population Aspects of Communism

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Seoul on Ice

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0100

So long as the government in Seoul stakes its reputation on lessening the North Korean threat--and insists on having made signal strides in doing so--the South Korean public will rightly wonder what exactly U.S. troops are still doing in their country.

The AIDS Pandemic Draws a Bead on Eurasia

Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0100

HIV/AIDS pandemic in Eurasia is primed to do the most damage.

The Future of AIDS

Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0100

In the decades ahead, the center of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic is set to shift from Africa to Eurasia.

North Korea's Nuclear News

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0100

The Bush administration has been given the opportunity to recast its policy toward North Korea, a policy that is no longer beholden to an agreement struck nearly a decade ago, and whose efficacy had been in question for several years now.

Our Other Korea Problem

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0100

The Mutual Defense Treaty cannot count on the continued support from both the South Korean and American publics that is necessary to sustain it.

Population Sense and Nonsense

Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0100

On the crucial issue of understanding world population trends, the U.S. government, the United Nations, European bureaucrats, and Third World elites agree more than they disagree.

Revisiting Life of Scholar Who Shaped How We Think about Global Bounty

Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0100

Julian L. Simon began to force a fundamental rethinking of the deeply ingrained Malthusian pessimism about world population, global resources, and the geo-environment.

If North Korea Were Really Reforming, How Could We Tell?

Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0100

A Misleading Measure of Poverty

Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0100

Bush, Abortion, and Foreign Aid

Mon, 11 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0100

In contemporary political debate, there is no surer way to discredit and delegitimize a policy than to establish that it injures women and children.

American Security Relations with Northeast Asia after 9-11

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0100

As the war against terror began to unfold, South Korea and the United States appeared to be working at cross-purposes, and as the campaign progressed, these signs of divergence became gradually more evident.

Beyond Malthus

Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Fanatics & Fertility

Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Letter on The Population Implosion

Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0100

An Open Letter to the President

Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Our Own Style of Statistics

Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Population Myths & Realities

Thu, 09 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Fertility is going down because we don’t know the future of human fertility.

Regarding The Population Implosion

Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0100

The Next Hot Spot

Wed, 23 May 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Developments in the Korean peninsula present Washington with opportunities, but such contingencies require long-range thinking by policy-makers.

The Myth of Overpopulation

Fri, 06 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0100

The Malthusian calculus does not consign our species to brutish subsistence, because our species can expand its resource base and temper its immediate environment.

World Population in the 21st Century

Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0100

The New Trend

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Global population growth will decelerate markedly over the coming generation.

The American Exception

Fri, 09 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0100

The Population Implosion

Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0100

After decades of struggling to contain the global population explosion, the world confronts rapidly decreasing birthrates and declining life spans.

Korean Security

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0100

The George W. Bush administration would do well to construct more realistic, less romantic, policies toward North Korea than its predecessor.

DPRK

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Prospects for Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation in the Sunshine Era

Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Disparities in Socioeconomic Development in Divided Korea

Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Economic Recovery in the DPRK

Sun, 01 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Pursuit of Prosperity South of the Sahara

Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Over the past generation sub-Saharan Africahas suffered prolonged and virtually continentwide economic failure, marked by pervasive economic retrogression and even reversals in social development.

What's North Korea Up To?

Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0100

The Old North

Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0100

For the stability of Northeast Asia, it is imperative for governments to move from the intellectual sand trap from which a Korean peninsula without the DPRK cannot be seen.

China Trade-Off?

Mon, 01 May 2000 01:00:00 +0100

Pyongyang a Seoul Searching Mission

Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Korea'sDMZ is the most dangerous flashpoint on earth.

The Problem Isn't Overpopulation and the Future May Be Depopulation

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Last One Out Turn off the Lights

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0100

China's Population Prospects

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0100

The Complexities of Growth

Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0100

Six Billion Reasons to Cheer

Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0100

The Road from Berlin

Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0100

Reports that American and North Korean negotiators have emerged from six days of missile talks in Berlin with a "breakthrough" accord are being greeted today with relief and elation.

The Most Dangerous Country

Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0100

Throughout its tenure, the DPRK has demonstrated its continuing capacity to surprise, usually in unpleasant ways.

Global Population Might Peak

Mon, 05 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0100

Russia

Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0100

For Russia and its people, the nightmare of Soviet totalitarianism has come to an end, only to be followed by a phenomenon much more familiar in Russian history: a “time of troubles.”

U.S. Aid Feeds North Korea's Nuclear Designs

Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0100

North Koreans describe the deliberations between the two states more honestly than the Americans do.

Mis-Planned Parenthood

Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0100

China's demographic patterns will be driven by long life expectancy andlowfertility.

The Dangerous Korea

Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0100

The essence of the “North Korean crisis” is in fact the North Korean regime: its outlook, behavior, and intentions.

South Korea's Economic Crisis and the Prospects for North-South Relations

Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0100

Divided Korea's Financial Ties Unite

Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0100

South Korea's crisis of international liquidity have altered not only the economic but also the political landscape of the Korean peninsula, making possible a new direction for North-South interactions.

Population Prospects for Eastern Asia to 2015

Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0100

The World Population Crisis

Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0100

Asia Tomorrow, Gray and Male

Tue, 01 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0100

Demography and International Relations

Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00:00 +0100

Demography plays a vital role in international relations.

The Magicians of Kyoto

Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Response to Letter Regarding "Trick and Mistreat"

Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Prospects for U.S.-DPRK Economic Relations

Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0100

The DPRK As an Economy Under Multiple Severe Stresses

Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Trick and Mistreat

Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Unicef’s medical obtusenessis a cruel manifestation of bureaucratic inefficiency, a product of blinding ideology, a simple human tragedy, or some combination of the three.

Long Division

Sun, 09 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Review of The Two Koreas, by Don Oberdorfer.

U.N. Development Disasters

Thu, 04 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Have U.N. development efforts really accomplished their aims?

World Population Implosion?

Mon, 01 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Epidemiologist

Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Review essay on Moynihan's Miles to Go.

Aid Harms the Hungry

Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Review of The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity, by Michael Maren.

Hastening Korean Reunification

Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0100

The Great Leap Backward

Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Hungry Ghosts by Jasper Becker.

North Korea as an Economy under Multiple Severe Stresses

Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0100

Development Assistance and Economic Freedom

Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Korean Unification on Trial

Mon, 09 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea's Reunification Policy

Sun, 01 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0100

The Great Chain Letter

Sun, 04 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Review of The Return of Thrift by Phillip Longman.

Foreign Aid Is beyond Repair

Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Assessing National Strategy in North and South Korea

Sat, 01 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Down the Rat Hole

Mon, 27 May 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Until American “development assistance” policies can assist in development, AID officials had best get used to revising their “ranking” within the “donor community” downward.

The Politics of Overpromise

Wed, 08 May 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Review of The Good Life and Its Discontents by Robert Samuelson.

North Korea's Pachinko Woes

Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Financial Transfers from Japan to North Korea

Wed, 01 May 1996 00:00:00 +0100

A Poor Measurement

Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Although it was not even calculated until the 1960s, the “poverty rate” is now one of America’s most familiar--and politically significant--statistical indicators.

Missing Truth on IMF

Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0100

More than most peoples, Russians are familiar with the phenomenon of the state-sponsored lie.

Birds, Bees, and Budget Cuts

Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0100

For advocates of Third World population control--or as they now prefer to say, “stabilizing world population”--the resort to scare tactics in debates and policy battles, is nothing new.

The Modern-Day Paradox of Poverty

Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Prosperous Paupers and Affluent Savages

Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0100

My assignment is to discuss the problems of poverty and poverty alleviation in the modern United States.

War Analyst Shows Himself out of Touch in Ideas, Facts

Sun, 05 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0100

Review of The War against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy by Herbert Gans.

The Soviet Way of Death

Fri, 01 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Naitre, Vivre et Mourir en URSS, 1917-1991 by Alain Blum.

Privatize the World Bank

Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0100

It is time for the World Bank to begin an orderly transition to private ownership.

Privatizing the World Bank

Thu, 01 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0100

Population and Development and Population Policy

Thu, 01 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Population and Development and Population Policy.

What Is Population Policy?

Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00:00 +0100

Just what is “population policy”?

U.N. Summit Follies

Mon, 13 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0100

How does one explain the upcoming U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing--a capital that has championed coercive abortions, and revived female infanticide?

The Truth about Korea's Economic Miracle

Fri, 07 Oct 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Troubled Tiger by Mark Clifford.

What You Won't Hear at Cairo

Tue, 06 Sep 1994 00:00:00 +0100

The Five Great Myths That Thwart the Experts' Arithmetic

Sun, 04 Sep 1994 00:00:00 +0100

The draft Programme of Action calls for a quadrupling of international aid money for population policies over the next six years. Governments will be wasting their time and our money.

Solution for Pyongyang's Nukes

Wed, 31 Aug 1994 00:00:00 +0100

The Colossal Failure of U.S. Policy toward North Korea

Thu, 09 Jun 1994 00:00:00 +0100

There can be no doubt that the United States will defend South Korea against naked aggression, no matter who our president is. North Korea, however, has miscalculated about this before.

Demographic Disaster

Wed, 01 Jun 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Washington as Infant Mortality Capital

Mon, 23 May 1994 00:00:00 +0100

I am pleased to hear, at last, an official response from the D.C. government to my series on our city’s infant mortality problem.

Demographic Shocks in Eastern Germany, 1989-1993

Sun, 01 May 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Trial after Triumph and Korea in the 1990s

Sun, 01 May 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Trial after Triumph and Korea in the 1990s.

Can Eastern Europe Cope with Demographic Calamity?

Thu, 07 Apr 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Statistics from official agencies not just in Russia but in Eastern Europe paint a portrait of a vast and diverse region seized by a common convulsion.

Marx and Mortality

Wed, 06 Apr 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Why Babies Die in D.C.

Fri, 01 Apr 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Impersonal social forces cannot explain why one of the very richest black populations in America suffers from black America’s very worst infant mortality rates.

Parents and the District's Endangered Children

Wed, 23 Feb 1994 00:00:00 +0100

The District of Columbia may thus offer a glimpse of the sorts of infant health problems that the nation as a whole will know in the years to come.

In the District, Children without a Chance

Tue, 22 Feb 1994 00:00:00 +0100

The District of Columbia is also the “infant mortality capital of America”--the population center in which a baby is most likely to die during his or her first year of life.

Population Policy

Sat, 01 Jan 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Reminder for Seoul

Wed, 24 Nov 1993 00:00:00 +0100

Pacific Rim Challenges Are More Political than Economic

Wed, 17 Nov 1993 00:00:00 +0100

President Clinton’s trip to Seattle later this week is fraught with significance.

Eastern Europe's Disturbing Health Crisis

Thu, 30 Sep 1993 00:00:00 +0100

A Revolution in "Family" That Is Eating Its Children

Fri, 24 Sep 1993 00:00:00 +0100

Babies born out of wedlock tend to suffer materially, and severely, for this fateful accident of birth.

North Korea

Wed, 01 Sep 1993 00:00:00 +0100

Mortality and the Fate of Communist States

Wed, 01 Sep 1993 00:00:00 +0100

Father and Son and North Korea

Mon, 23 Aug 1993 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea

Wed, 18 Aug 1993 00:00:00 +0100

Suharto's New Order

Fri, 06 Aug 1993 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Indonesian Politics under Suharto by Michael Vatikiotis.

Are Smokers Rational?

Thu, 01 Apr 1993 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Smoking: Making the Risky Decision by W. Kip Viscusi.

Can the Two Koreas Be One?

Tue, 01 Dec 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Who Wanted Mr. Liu Dead?

Sun, 25 Oct 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Fires of the Dragon by David Kaplan.

How Democracy Took Hold in Two Asian Dragons

Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Taiwan and South Korea

Tue, 01 Sep 1992 00:00:00 +0100

A Skeptical Look at Aid to Russia

Tue, 01 Sep 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Divided Korea

Tue, 01 Sep 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Wrongheaded Aid to Russia

Tue, 01 Sep 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Few Options Left for Kim Il-Sung

Fri, 26 Jun 1992 00:00:00 +0100

New-Blood Rx for Cloak and Stagger

Mon, 22 Jun 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Parents' Lifestyles Put Their Babies in Danger

Sun, 10 May 1992 00:00:00 +0100

America's Infant Mortality Problem

Mon, 20 Jan 1992 00:00:00 +0100

Bridging the Great Korean Divide

Tue, 07 Jan 1992 00:00:00 +0100

If Korea Tears Down Its Wall

Sun, 05 Jan 1992 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea's Massive Military Machine

Tue, 10 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0100

Military Buildup in the DPRK

Fri, 01 Nov 1991 00:00:00 +0100

How Not to Aid Eastern Europe

Fri, 01 Nov 1991 00:00:00 +0100

The War Nobody Won

Sun, 13 Oct 1991 00:00:00 +0100

Gorbachev's Present Motivations

Sun, 01 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Sol Sanders's Living off the West.

America's Infant-Mortality Puzzle

Sun, 01 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0100

Population Change and National Security

Mon, 01 Jul 1991 00:00:00 +0100

Where Did the CIA Go Wrong?

Mon, 10 Jun 1991 00:00:00 +0100

The Population Bomb May Really Be a Dud

Sun, 26 May 1991 00:00:00 +0100

The Best Course Shuns Dependence

Fri, 07 Dec 1990 00:00:00 +0100

Unicef Cries Wolf

Fri, 28 Sep 1990 00:00:00 +0100

Europe's Border between Sickness and Health

Tue, 30 Jan 1990 00:00:00 +0100

Health and Mortality in Eastern Europe, 1965-85

Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 +0100

Foreign Aid's Industrialized Poverty

Wed, 08 Nov 1989 00:00:00 +0100

The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Eberstadt contends that the defects of the current poverty rate are not only severe but irremediable.

Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Nicholas Eberstadt and Hans Groth outline a plan for Western Europe to capitalize upon its healthy older workforce.

The North Korean Economy

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0100

There is a grim coherence to North Korea's political economy, and a ruthless logic undergirding it--one that unreservedly subordinates economic welfare to augmentation of political power.

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The study analyzesand challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in income--not poverty per se--is bad for people's health.

Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0100

The very conception of "population problems" is inherently ambiguous and arbitrary, lending itself to faulty analysis and inappropriate diagnoses.

The End of North Korea

Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0100

Prolonging North Korea's life may actually increase the costs and the dangers of its inevitable demise.

Korea Approaches Reunification

Wed, 01 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0100

A collection of Eberstadt's recent studies of the two Koreas.

The Tyranny of Numbers

Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 +0100

This book examines the facts and figures that have led to government measures unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries.

The Nine Lives of Population Control

Thu, 01 Dec 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Does our world now have more people than it can reasonably sustain?

The Population of North Korea

Wed, 01 Apr 1992 00:00:00 +0100

This book discusses North Korea and Asian population demographics.

U.S. Foreign Aid Policy

Mon, 01 Oct 1990 00:00:00 +0100

This book discusses U.S. aid policy and global governance.

Foreign Aid and American Purpose

Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 +0100

This book examines the perversion of foreign aid, "human capital" and foreign aid in Africa, and democracy and the "debt crisis" in Latin America.

The Poverty of Communism

Fri, 01 Jan 1988 00:00:00 +0100

This book discusses how socialist political philosophies, especially Communism, breed poverty and societal decline.

Poverty in China

Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 +0100

This book discusses poverty in China and how it is related to demographics.

Accounting for Happiness: The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:15:00 +0100

The Increase in Leisure Inequality, 1965-2005

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:30:00 +0100

U.S.-Korean Relations: The Challenges for Presidents Obama and Lee

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:15:00 +0100

China Since Tiananmen: Power, Party, and Society

Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Does Africa's Future Depend on Global Financial Institutions?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +0100

Testing the Obama Administration: Implications of a North Korean Missile Launch

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:00:00 +0100

North Korea Policy and the Obama Administration: New Directions?

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Development Beyond Aid: Remaking U.S. Development Policy for a Changed World

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:00:00 +0100

Russia's Economic Crisis: How Deep? How Wide? How Lethal?

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0100

The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate": Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0100

Missing Girls in Asia: Magnitudes, Implications, and Possible Responses

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:00:00 +0100

Was Malthus Right? Was Today's Global Food Crisis Inevitable?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:15:00 +0100

Making the World Safer . . . for Kim Jong Il

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:30:00 +0100

U.S.-South Korean Relations: A New Era of Cooperation?

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:30:00 +0100

Why Don't Poor Countries Choose Capitalism?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0100

The North Korean Problem: Toward a Diplomatic Solution in 2008?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:30:00 +0100

Healthy Aging: Europe’s Economic Trump Card?

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:30:00 +0100

Understanding Political Violence and Repression in Our Times

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:00:00 +0100

Where We Stand: A Surprising Look at the Real State of Our Planet

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:00:00 +0100

A World without Agriculture

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:30:00 +0100

North Korea in the Age of Terror

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:00:00 +0100

Demographic Divergence between America and Europe

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0100

Who's Afraid of North Korean Regime Collapse?

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:00:00 +0100

The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:00:00 +0100

A Fair Deal with North Korea?

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:00:00 +0100

Religion and the American Future

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:00:00 +0100

The Fallout of the North Korean Nuclear Test

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Measuring Poverty after Katrina

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:00:00 +0100

Global Leadership?

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100

Diplomatic Déjà vu?: Nuclear Deal-Making with Iran

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:30:00 +0100

The Challenges of China's Growth

Tue, 09 May 2006 17:30:00 +0100

Combating the Diseases of Poverty: Aid versus Innovation

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:30:00 +0100

From Authoritarianism to Democracy

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Religious Freedom in North Korea

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:00:00 +0100

Politics and Population in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:15:00 +0100

Transforming the U.S.-Japanese Alliance

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:45:00 +0100

The Graying of the Planet

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:30:00 +0100

Behind the Veil of a Public Health Crisis

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:00:00 +0100

In Praise of Empires

Tue, 10 May 2005 10:00:00 +0100

Asia after the Tsunami

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:00:00 +0100

The 1.5 Million Population Gap

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:00:00 +0100

Foreign Policy in the Second Bush Administration

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:00:00 +0100

The Permanent North Korean Crisis

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:00:00 +0100

Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:00:00 +0100

America's East Asian Alliances

Mon, 24 May 2004 14:00:00 +0100

The Real Obstacles to Treating AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis in Developing Countries

Wed, 12 May 2004 09:00:00 +0100

The Political Economy of World Mass Migration

Tue, 11 May 2004 17:30:00 +0100

Roh No More?

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:30:00 +0100

The Global Pandemic

Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:30:00 +0100

Into Africa

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:00:00 +0100

North Korea

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 14:00:00 +0100

International Indifference, Local Lies

Thu, 22 May 2003 09:00:00 +0100

Has Global Income Inequality Been Rising?

Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:00:00 +0100

The North Korean Refugee Crisis

Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:00:00 +0100

Can Asia Avoid the AIDS Typhoon?

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:15:00 +0100

Do Democracies Bankrupt Social Security Programs?

Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:15:00 +0100

Is Inequality Bad for Our Health?

Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:30:00 +0100

The Future of Human Health

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:30:00 +0100

ROK-U.S. Alliance

Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:00:00 +0100

American Security Interests in the Korean Peninsula

Wed, 23 May 2001 09:00:00 +0100

Korea Policy Challenges for the New Administration

Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:30:00 +0100

The Politicization of Public Health

Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:15:00 +0100

Culture and Economic Development

Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:00:00 +0100

The Outbreak of the Korean War

Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:30:00 +0100

Foreign Aid

Mon, 17 Oct 1994 00:00:00 +0100

Should the United States Aid the Former Soviet Union?

Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:00:00 +0100

The Global War against Baby Girls

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Weare witnessing the consequences of the fateful collisionofson preference, prenatal sex determination technology for gender-based abortion, and declining fertility levels.

Global Demographic Outlook to 2025

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Was the last century's "population explosion" driven by a reduction in morality?

Global Population Trends

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100

What are the major strategic trends in global population?

Health and Demography

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100

This presentationwas delivered at the“Advancing Economic Growth: Investing in Health” conference at the Chatham House in London,June 22-23, 2005.

Indicators of Deprivation and Wellbeing in Modern America

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0100

This presentation covers the poverty rate as a predictor of socioeconomic progress and household consumption.

North Korea’s WMD Program

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The North Korean government did not opt to join the world’s nuclear weapons club suddenly, on a bizarre and inexplicable whim. To the contrary: last week’s announcement represents the predictable culmination of decades of methodical progress on a multifaceted program of weapons of mass destruction.

North Korea's WMD Program

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Last week's announcement represents the predictable culmination of decades of progress on a multifaceted program of weapons of mass destruction.

Fewer

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Over the foreseeable future, population replacement will be taking place--although not in the sense that demographers typically assign to the term.

Demographics and Population Movements in the Russian Far East

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0100

This speechexamines population movement, mortality rates, and life expectancy in Russia.

Demographics and Population Movements in the Russian Far East

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author examines population movement, mortality rates, and life expectancy in Russia.

Second Thoughts about Africa's Demographic Prospects

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author addresses health concerns in Africa and the effects of disease on demographic trends.

Challenges to the Goal of Global Health Equality

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Research and development promises the potential for recasting the cost-benefit calculus for HIV/AIDS treatment for low-income populations.

Foreign Aid Effectiveness and Selectivity

Thu, 13 May 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author examines climate data, income, and economic indicators to determine if foreign aid produces desired results.

The Political Economy of World Mass Migration

Tue, 11 May 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author introduces Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University, who researches political economy and world mass migration.

P. T. Bauer on the "Population Question"

Sat, 08 May 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author discussesPeter Tamas Bauer's assessment of the "population problem" and his contributions to the field of development economics.

China's "Triple Bind"

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The author examines future economic problems in China, includingthe AIDS crisisand the growing shortage of females.

Towards a Peaceful Resolution with North Korea

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

There can be neither a settlement onWMDs nor demobilization of theNorth Koreanmilitary until and unlessNorth Koreanormalizes relations with South Korea.

Population, Public Health, and Globalization

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Life is full of surprises for specialists in population studies because the predictive powers of demography and population science are somewhat limited.

Corruption in North Korea's Economy

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Nicholas Eberstadt's July 31, 2003, testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Graphs for July 31, 2003 Testimony

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0100

These graphs were presented at the hearing.

Drugs, Counterfeiting, and Weapons Proliferation

Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:00 +0100

DPRK involvement in illicit activities, far from being an aberration, is instead part and parcel of its basic approach to diplomacy and economic policy.

The Future of AIDS in Russia, China, and India

Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Nicholas Eberstadt's March 3, 2002, Powerpoint presentation at Duke University.

The Threat from North Korea

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0100

Pyongyang sees itself as a state engaged in an international zero-sum martial-mercantile contest: Pyongyang must in this view either give or receive tribute.

Humanity, Peace, and Security

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0100

Will the DPRK move towards a more economically pragmatic and economically successful future?

Mexico City Policy

Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Addressing the question of the health and mortality impact of the restrictions on U.S. international population assistance known as the “Mexico City policy”.

North Korean Economic Conditions and Prospects

Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0100

Rationality and Global Environmentalism

Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0100

International data on health and mortality today point to the emergence of very serious “micro-environmental problems” in different regions of the world.

Starved for Ideas

Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Why do we live in a world in which millions upon millions of children and adults suffer from the scourges of extreme hunger and malnutrition?

U.S. Development Assistance Program

Thu, 11 Apr 1991 00:00:00 +0100

The CIA's Estimate of the Soviet Economy

Mon, 16 Jul 1990 00:00:00 +0100

Foreign Assistance Requests for Africa

Thu, 09 Mar 1989 00:00:00 +0100

A World without the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Thinking about "Alternative Futures"

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100

With the U.S.-ROK Alliance in question, the United States must assert its military posture, maintain relations with Japan, defend sea lines of communication, and maintain a role in Asia.

Too Many People?

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100

There is no clear evidence to support the trendy fearthat global population increases are out of control and need to be "stabilized."

Regional Economic Implications of DPRK Security Behavior: The "Bold Switchover ...

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea's neighbors have suffered broader economic costs, and lost economic opportunities, as a direct consequence of Pyongyang’s security policies and practices.

Behind the Veil of a Public Health Crisis

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The newest phase of the global AIDS pandemic is the unfolding of the contagion across the great Islamic expanse.

Some Strategic Implications of Asian/Eurasian Demographic Trends

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

How do human numbers affect the capability of governments to influence events beyond their borders or affect the disposition of a country's interactions with outside actors?

The Russian Federation at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The Russian Federation today faces the unprecedented dual challenge of simultaneously reversing the plummeting birth rates and skyrocketing mortality rates of the 1990s.

North Korea and Iraq

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Although no weapons of mass destruction have been found inside Iraq’s borders,we mustask whether the war is having a positive or negative impact on the worldwide spread of these arms.

North Korea's Survival Game

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Can the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea survive--as a distinct regime, an autonomous state, a specific political-economic system, and a sovereign country?

Projecting HIV in Eurasia

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:00:00 +0100

Detailed results for the article "The Future of AIDS" in Foreign Affairs.

Korea

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0100

In part, today's relative calm can be explained by the character and tenor of relations among the great Pacific powers in the Korean peninsula and beyond it.

U.S.-North Korea Economic Relations

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Chapter 6 in The U.S. and the Two Koreas: A New Triangle, edited by Tong Whan Park.

Russia's Demographic Disaster

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Russia's current depopulation has been underway far longer than any previous population drop in Russian memory. It is not clear how this one is to be arrested or reversed.

Foreign Aid: What Works and What Doesn't

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

U.S. foreign aid needs a new business model that fits the realities of today's global economic picture.

Population Power

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:00:00 +0100

One of the biggest challenges for European security and stability lies in assimilating immigrants into European societies.

The Poverty of the Official Poverty Rate

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Little has changed in the way the federal government measures poverty since 1965.

A Chance to Rein In North Korea

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The December 2007 presidential election in South Korea presages a sea change in that key U.S. ally's policies toward North Korea.

China's Future and Its One-Child Policy

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100

China would do well to abolish its disastrous "One-Child Policy."

Healthy Old Europe

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0100

What will be the effect of Western Europe's declining birthrate on population?

Haiti in Extremis

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Until Haiti can begin to look beyond its past to its culture of survival, it will be unable to achieve the modernity its people deserve.

Why Poverty Doesn't Rate

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0100

America's poverty rates don't accurately measure poverty today.

Nuclear Shakedown

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Further Bush administration weakness in the face of North Korea's actions could seriously damage U.S. security arrangements in the Korean peninsula and throughout Asia.

North Korea Triumphs Again in Diplomacy

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0100

North Korea's latest agreement on denuclearization will allow its government to continue workign on nuclear weapons and to isolate South Korea.

Bring Them Home

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The South Korean government seems indifferent to the plight of the tens of thousands of North Koreans who have escaped the Kim Jong Il regime.

Kim Jong Il's Nuclear Winter

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The United States and its allies have exacerbated the danger that North Korea poses to international security by failing to sanction Pyongyang meaningfully.

Tear Down This Tyranny

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0100

The United States must develop a new approach to the North Korean nuclear crisis, sincewe will not likely talk North Korea out of its nuclear weapons program.

Four Surprises in Global Demography

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Sub-replacement fertility rates are becoming the global norm with the exception of the United States.

A Republic--if South Koreans Can Keep It

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0100

With the recent vote to impeach President Roh Mu Hyun on dubious grounds, South Korean democracy once again seems imperiled.

The Emptying of Russia

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Russian political leaders have focused on trying to increase birth rates, but urgency must be applied to diminish mortality rates and to respond to health threats, including HIV/AIDS.

A Turn of the Screw

Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100

Because North Korea is uniquely dependent on foreign aid and illicit trade, under American leadership, Northeast Asia's powers can effectively squeeze Kim Jong Il's regime economically.

Evil, Yes. Genius, No.

Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0100

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's ineptitude as a leader is what makes the present crisis withthat countryso scary.

The AIDS Pandemic Draws a Bead on Eurasia

Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0100

The enormous number of people infected with HIV in Russia, China, and India is poised to grow even larger, thus altering the economic potential and military power of Eurasia's largest states.

Population Sense and Nonsense

Sun, 01 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0100

Demographics experts have failed to note the falling prices of natural resources and the health explosion that has led to a huge expansion of human capital.

The Poverty Rate

Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 +0100

Due to fundamental defects in the method by which the U.S. poverty rate is calculated, it is difficult to accurately assess living standards at any point in time and long term trends.

World Population Prospects

Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Population projections from the United Nations suggest that many countries face a decline in population and an unprecedented "aging explosion."

What's North Korea Up To?

Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Although North Korea is establishing or reviving diplomatic relations with a number of other countries, including South Korea, the West should continue to approach North Korea warily.

Six Billion Reasons to Cheer

Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0100

The development and the remarkable advances that made world population six billion possible should be viewed as a triumph.

U.S. Aid Feeds North Korea's Nuclear Designs

Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0100

Although Clinton administration hope that the deal will keep the North Korean nuclear program in check, the deal is more likely to help sustain and advance the program.

The Dangerous Korea

Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0100

The communist regime in North Korea will be a menace to its neighbors and to the United States--as well as to the population it rules--as long as it exists.

World Population Implosion?

Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0100

One set of projections by the United Nations of current demographic trends suggests that the world's population may peak in the middle of the next century and then steadily decline.

Hastening Korean Reunification

Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0100

United States should take the lead in anticipating and expediting the return of a united Korea.

Starved for Ideas

Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Efforts to combat hunger are retarded by three misconceptions: exaggerating the problem andoverstating the threat posed by population growth..

Development Assistance and Economic Freedom

Mon, 07 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0100

A more effective development assistance policy would promote economic freedom--both as a good unto itself and as a stimulus to prosperity.

The Modern-Day Paradox of Poverty

Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0100

Despite tremendous material advances and a vast augmentation of national wealth since the 1920s, America's social problems are far more acute in the 1990s than they were during the Great Depression.

UNICEF Cries Wolf

Fri, 28 Sep 1990 00:00:00 +0100

Global Environmentalists and Their Superstitions

Fri, 01 Jan 1988 00:00:00 +0100

Environmental policy is dominated around the world by a pseudoscientific approach to understanding the risks facing populations and ecosystems.