Global Health & Development 
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By Ng Lun Pei* HIV/AIDS, while no longer a taboo in China, remains a sensitive topic. Government officials tend to shy away from it for fear of upsetting “social harmony,” under the belief that disseminating information about HIV/AIDS will evoke widespread panic. Yet without sufficient public attention, [...]
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Op-Ed: The Female Century
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 [...]
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.
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