Global Health & Development 
Op-Ed: The Female Century(0)
Op-Ed by: Andrew C. Miller Many Americans assert that the new millennium marked the dawn of another “American Century.” The Chinese are equally convinced that the twenty-first century belongs to them. Some foreign policy scholars even foresee a “Canadian Century.” But this state level analysis may be outmoded altogether, with no one country having the [...]
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State Capacity as a Conceptual Variable
BY MATTHEW ADAM KOCHER, PhD From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. State capacity has become a central concept in security studies. Matthew Adam Kocher argues that common uses of the concept to explain violent conflict are tautological and instead outlines several approaches to disaggregate the state analytically so as to lead to more rigorous empirical research on violence.
The Demographic Security Dilemma
BY CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT, PhD From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. Why do minority populations often grow faster than majorities? States in dyadic conflict with a minority whose population growth exceeds that of the majority are prone to protective measures to bolster the majority’s grip on power. Under conditions of ethnic control, however, such measures appear to precipitate higher fertility rates among the minority. Christian Leuprecht develops the logic of a demographic security dilemma to account for this pervasive puzzle.
The Puzzle of Iraqi Mortality: Surges, Civilian Deaths and Alternative Meanings
BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT AND MOLLY INMAN From Volume 5, Issue 1 – Winter 2010: Spotlight on Development. Conventional wisdom says that the Bush Administration’s 2007 surge was a success. Though a decrease of violence in Iraq followed its implementation, Christian Davenport and Molly Inman contend that the surge alone may not have been wholly responsible for the on the on-the-ground changes it is assumed to have engendered.
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