Iran is limiting provision of family planning services at state-run facilities to counter a decline in population growth. Iran’s median age is 32, slightly higher than the world’s median age of 30. The World Bank reports Iran’s fertility rate at 2.1 children per women, which is replacement level....
The world is not so different from a small, connected community, confronting numerous challenges with consequences for all inhabitants. Resolution requires cooperation rather than competition that exacerbates the pressing global problems, including climate change, nuclear non-proliferation,...
We're trapped in a debilitating paradox. People around the world increasingly perceive their interconnectedness and interdependence. In principle, they recognize that this implies a need for closer international cooperation. Yet governance at all...
From an unprecedented era of global power to a soon-to-be realized decline, five new books on American empire run the gamut of explaining and forecasting the long-term possibilities of American power. In this review for Foreign Affairs, G. John Ikenberry notes where each author gets his analysis...
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. Chalmers Johnson. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004, 400 pp.$25.00
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. By Niall Ferguson. New York...
Most world leaders agree that global warming is a real and pressing issue, and are ready for any ideas on how to stop, fix or adapt to the problem. Environmentalists still express hope that conservation - some immediate sacrifices - could save species, habitats and even some human lives. “...
As the world's leaders gather in New York this week to discuss climate change, you're going to hear a lot of well-intentioned talk about how to stop global warming. From the United Nations, Bill Clinton, and even the Bush administration,...
In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump supported “really a great peace deal” and was noncommittal about the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. “The two-state solution, under which a Palestinian state would be formed alongside Israel in the...
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Too many in US leadership and the general public rely on feelings rather than rational analysis, facts and lessons from history, and such trends explain increasing rejection of contributions to US prosperity by education, science or globlaization. Four trends mark what Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael...
The notion of the US as a “melting pot” that welcomed immigrants of all nationalities is familiar, but does not accurately describe the history of the country’s immigration patterns. Early on, the government encouraged quick populating of the young nation, and European immigrants came in droves....
In the beginning, America - vast, raw and sparsely populated - needed every immigrant it could get.
When King George III tried to stem an exodus of his subjects to the New World in the 18th century, the...
Policies meant to promote globalization – cutting public budgets, deregulating markets and liberalizing trade – have created new wealth, especially in Asia. Beneath the veneer of the growing global middleclass, however, is another story – that of the billion people worldwide who have been...
In the shadow of the rising global middle class there resides another reality: the planet of slums. Cutting public budgets, deregulating markets and liberalizing trade may have generated new wealth on a global scale,...