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Top 5 Demography Myths

Posted on June 20, 2010 by AK

In this post, I intend to disprove or at least question five commonly encountered myths about world demography (as I already did for Russia). 1. The Third World is experiencing a fertility-driven population explosion. Whereas this was true a generation … Continue reading →

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Russia isn’t hated by (most of) its neighbors

Posted on June 8, 2010 by AK

One of the staples of the neocon-Russophobe narrative is that Russia is alone in the world, utterly bereft of friends, left only with the likes of Nicaragua and Nauru to indulge it in its anachronistic “imperial fantasies”. Not really. Conflating … Continue reading →

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The People’s Choice, or how Ukrainians are learning to stop worrying and love Eurasia

Posted on May 17, 2010 by AK

I enjoyed the egg-throwing scenes from Ukraine’s Rada on the ratification of the gas-for-fleet deal with Russia as much as anyone. It also reflected the polarized commentary on the interwebs. The Ukrainian patriot-bloggers get their knickers in a sweaty twist. The … Continue reading →

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If Malthus and Ibn Khaldun were to meet for coffee…

Posted on April 8, 2010 by AK

Then you might get something like Peter Turchin’s War and Peace and War, which I’ve finally read on the recommendations of Kolya and TG. Ranging from Ermak’s subjugation of the Sibir Khanate to the rise of Rome, Turchin makes the … Continue reading →

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