Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Two political scientists comment on Thomas Ambrosio's The Geopolitics
of Demographic Decay: HIV/AIDS and Russia's Great-Power Status (Post-Soviet
Affairs, 22, 1, January-March 2006).
Ambrosio's three indicators of great-power capacity, Russia's society, military, and economy, are reviewed in terms of his argument about how the projected effects of HIV/AIDS weakens each factor.