Volume 40, Number 5 · March 4, 1993
The American Prospect
By Paul Kennedy
Two broad forces for change, one driven by the global demographic explosion, the second by new technologies, are affecting societies throughout the world, with particularly severe consequences for the poorer countries of the developing world.[1] Even successful states like Switzerland and Japan, which have usually been better able than many to insulate themselves from international turbulence, will find it impossible to escape the impact of the demographic and technological revolutions bearing down on us.[2]
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