China will be the first great power in Asia to suffer from atwenty-first century "bride shortage."

How can we use population indicators to anticipate, with some reasonable hope of accuracy, the impact of yet-unfolding demographic forces on the balance of international power?

China's demographic patterns will be driven by long life expectancy andlowfertility.

In America and the West Indies, slavery created more barriers for any father hoping to play such a parental role.

The most interesting phenomenon on Russia's literary scene today is the popularity of the Erast Fandorin mysteries by Grigoriy Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, who writes as Boris Akunin.