AEI's Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt wins the prestigious Bradley Prize

Baby Seven Billion will have a greater chance to live to adulthood and receive an education—and a lower chance of suffering extreme material poverty—than a child at any previous juncture in history. This prospect, in and of itself, should be a cause for celebration.

A more powerful but unfriendly Russia could pose America and the West with plenty of problems. But there is a real chance in the years ahead that we may instead confront a *weaker* Russia: controlled by an ambitious and aggressive directorate surprised by the course events are taking, and not shy about resorting to nuclear diplomacy.

There remains a widely perceived notion—still commonly held within intellectual, academic, and policy circles in the West and elsewhere—that ―Muslim societies are especially resistant to embarking upon the path of demographic and familial change. But such notions speak to a bygone era

Included is American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt's latest piece entitled North Korea's Six-Party Trap.

At this AEI event, expert panelists will discuss how the U.S. can enhance its alliances and maintain stability in the South China Sea.

Nicholas Eberstadt will present an overview of his timely new book on the subject, Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis, followed by an expert panel discussion on the implications for Russia in the coming years.

Population did not boom because people suddenly started breeding like rabbits, but rather because they finally stopped dying like flies: the "population explosion" was in reality a "health explosion," with improvements in longevity driving the entirety of this increase in human numbers.