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Nicholas Eberstadt

Asia Dec 20, 2011 Snapshot

The Death of Kim Jong Il and North Korea's Broken Dynasty

With the death of Kim Jong Il, the system of dynastic succession in North Korea seems an anachronistic anomaly. But there is additional cause for alarm with this...

Nicholas Eberstadt

Politics & Society November/December 2011 Essay

The Dying Bear

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been gripped by a devastating population crisis. The country's demographic decline will undermine the Kremlin's...

Nicholas Eberstadt

Economic Development November/December 2010 Essay

The Demographic Future

Global demographics in the twenty-first century will be defined by steep declines in fertility rates. Many countries will see their populations shrink and age. But...

Nicholas Eberstadt

Economic Development - Foreign Affairs

Northeast Asia Oct 23, 2009 Reading List

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What to Read on North Korean Politics

An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on North Korean politics.

Nicholas Eberstadt

Politics & Society May/June 2007 Essay

Healthy Old Europe

The population of western Europe is aging steadily, and the region's birthrate is well below the replacement level, but Europe's elderly are exceptionally healthy....

Nicholas Eberstadt and Hans Groth

Europe - Foreign Affairs

Health November/December 2002 Essay

The Future of AIDS

In the decades ahead, the center of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic is set to shift from Africa to Eurasia. The death toll in that region's three pivotal countries-...

Nicholas Eberstadt

Asia - Foreign Affairs

Economics March/April 1997 Essay

Hastening Korean Reunification: The Writing on the 38th Parallel

Pacific powers would like Korea to reunify slowly, but the North is soon likely to implode, its economy deteriorating as its weapons of mass destruction accumulate....

Nicholas Eberstadt

Political Development Winter 1992/93 Essay

Can the Two Koreas Be One?

The Cold War has not ended on the Korean peninsula. U.S. policymakers must prepare now for a pending unification that - given the isolated, declining but perhaps...

Nicholas Eberstadt

Asia - Foreign Affairs

Politics & Society Summer 1991 Essay

Population Change and National Security

It is not so much a question of how population growth threatens world security, so much as of how fertility differentials between rich and poor countries will threaten...

Nicholas Eberstadt

Politics Society - Foreign Affairs

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