“Tinderbox of Youth”, and a lot of mouths to feed.
From part 2 of a 7-part series from the LA Times. About 80% of the world’s civil conflicts since the 1970s have occurred in countries with young, fast-growing populations, known […]
From part 2 of a 7-part series from the LA Times. About 80% of the world’s civil conflicts since the 1970s have occurred in countries with young, fast-growing populations, known […]
From the CFR’s “Democracy in Development” blog. A massive food crisis is brewing in Africa’s Sahel. Already, some 18 million people in the Sahel region are confronting a severe food […]
from Musings on Iraq. Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been following its own independent oil policy. Part of that has included […]
Found this on the Ricks blog. A guy from NECSI came up with a quantitative model that seems to predict global food prices and knock-on social effects. He places blame primarily […]
from a post at ScienceDaily. “We may think the world enjoyed periods of relative freedom from war between the Cold War and 9/11 but [new research] shows that the […]
A G-Zero World, by Ian Bremmer at Foreign Affairs. In the wake of the financial crisis, the United States is no longer the leader of the global economy, and no […]