In a recent working paper, World Population Prospects and the Global Economic Outlook, AEI political economist and demographer Nicholas Eberstadt examines global demographic prospects up to 2030 and assesses the impact that these population trends will have on the world's economic performance.

The beating by Cuban officials of a member of a nongovernmental organization at the United Nations in Geneva should be considered a criminal act for which the Cuban government must be censured, Freedom House said today.

President Obama's efforts to appease Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir's government have increased Bashir's perception of U.S. weakness and reinforced his inclination and willingness to use military force to suppress Sudanese opposition in the South, Darfur, and elsewhere.

United Nations peacekeeping operations, and the resources and personnel devoted to them, are again on the rise, raising questions about the UN's capacity to handle so much new business effectively.

Somaliland's election and peaceful transfer of power illuminates a beacon of hope in a part of the world that poses a growing and legitimate security threat to the United States and its allies.

The aid from George W. Bush and Tony Blair may help Africa fail again.

President Barack Obama has made outreach to the Islamic Republic of Iran a foreign policy centerpiece of his administration.

Piracy is an ancient nuisance, but Somali piracy, linked as it is to Islamist ideology, poses a thornier security challenge.