Top 10 Posts for February 2011

Continuing turmoil in the Middle East helped keep Richard Cincotta’s political-demographic analysis on Tunisia’s chances of achieving democracy at the top this month, with Bryan McDonald’s piece on food price shocks, comments from demographers on “the age of revolution,” and a look at Pew’s latest iteration of its report on Muslim population growth following close behind:



1. Tunisia’s Shot at Democracy: What Demographics and Recent History Tell Us



2. Guest Contributor Bryan McDonald: Food Price Shocks and Instability Highlight Weaknesses in Governance and Markets



3. The Age of Revolution? Demography Experts Comment on Tunisia’s Shot at Democracy



4. Eye on Environmental Security: Mapping Muslim Population Growth



5. Book Preview: The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security
6. Book Preview: Environmental Politics: Scale and Power, Shannon O’Lear, University of Kansas



7. Quantifying the Integration of Population, Health, and Environment in Development: When the Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts



8. India’s Maoists: South Asia’s “Other” Insurgency



9. Climate-Induced Migration: Catastrophe or Adaptation Strategy?



10. Guest Contributor Richard A. Matthew: Reading the QDDR: Civilian Power in a Complex, Uncertain World