Journal of International Affairs articles from September 2002

Journal of International Affairs archives from September 2002

Editors' foreword.
September 22, 2002... Global population growth is slowing. Yet, as the UN Secretary-General noted in his 2002 World Population Day message, "[T]here will still be a billion more people in the developing world by 2015. And the most rapid growth is occurring in the...

Population and security: how demographic change can lead to violent conflict.
September 22, 2002... "While the marked decrease in population growth in many countries and regions is good news for those concerned about global population, it offers no clear relief for concerns about the security implications of population change." As we...

Demographic engineering and the struggle for power.
September 22, 2002... "As long as nationalists think that they can achieve self-determination on the basis of the ethnic population of a territory, they will strive to create an ethnically pure population in the region or regions they covet." The drive to...

Demography and communalism in India.
September 22, 2002... "In India... radical Hindus claim that they are heading for minority status despite current estimates placing the Hindu population at 830 million and the Muslim population at 130 million." When India and Pakistan gained independence in...

Differential demographic growth in multinational states: Israel's two-front war.
September 22, 2002... "[In] Israel, a parliamentary democracy, Ultra-Orthodox Jews--who rarely work, pay no taxes and do not serve in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)--are bearing children at afar higher rate than all other groups combined.... [O]ver time this...

Migration and security: some key linkages.
September 22, 2002... "As migration is defined as the movement of people across national boundaries--an inter-state phenomenon--we would expect it to be addressed by students of international relations.... It is... glaring to note the absence of migration as a...

Crime and violence in an urbanizing world.
September 22, 2002... "[C]ivilian helicopter traffic in Sao Paulo has become the busiest on earth. The city currently boasts some 240 helipads, compared with 10 in New York, allowing the privileged to fly to and from their well-guarded homes to work or shopping or...

The global raiders: nationalism, globalization and the South African brain drain.
September 22, 2002... "The cycle, as I understand it, is that your city doctors go to the States for richer pickings. And then your rural doctors come here (to urban centers) and our doctors go to your rural areas. And we get Cuban doctors." (2) In 1998, the...

The Middle East's demographic transition: what does it mean?
September 22, 2002... "[F]rom Morocco to Iran... [b]irth rates are falling, and the baby boom that characterized the 1960s and 1970s has given way to a potentially more favorable situation. The population growth is occurring not in the ranks of under-15-year-old...

The shape of things to come: global aging in the twenty-first century.
September 22, 2002... "The world stands on the threshold of a social transformation--even a revolution--with few parallels in humanity's past.... Perhaps two-thirds of all people who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today." Thirty years ago,...

Climate fluctuations, demography and development: insights and opportunities for Northeast Brazil.
September 22, 2002... "The environmental and social problems of the Amazon are rooted in the economic trade-offs faced by a developing country seeking improved welfare, land distribution policy, labor productivity and income distribution, with only recent progress...

Environment, population and conflict: new modalities of threat and vulnerability in South Asia (1).
September 22, 2002... "The clear consensus among many political observers is that contemporary South Asia is highly vulnerable to violent conflict. Moreover, a substantial number of analysts contend that environmental change and population growth are amplifying this...

Demographic change, natural resources and violence' the current debate.
September 22, 2002... "[T]he end of the Cold War raised the salience of and deepened the debate over, non-traditional security issues, including the potentially destabilizing effects of dramatic demographic and environmental change." In 1998, Naris Sadik,...

Ecoviolence? Links between population growth, environmental scarcity and violent conflict in Thomas Homer-Dixon's work (1).
September 22, 2002... "Qualitative degradation or quantitative depletion reduces the total size of the pie. A growing number of people sharing the pie implies that each share of the pie shrinks. And finally, if the pie is distributed in pieces of unequal sizes, some...

Strangers in the city: the hukou and urban citizenship in China.
September 22, 2002... "Even as migrants' hukou status excludes them from many of the entitlements provided by the state, they also enjoy greater autonomy from state control than any other group within Chinese society." On National Day (1 October) 2001, China's...

Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Irina Livezeanu Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000, xix, 340 pages The publication of the paperback edition of Irina Livezeanu's book, first put out in hardcover by Cornell University Press in 1995, is a happy event for...