September brought a crop of fresh faces to the top 10 (based on unique pageviews). Valerie Hudson’s spring launch at the Wilson Center of her new book Sex and World Peace, which asks if the domestic treatment of women impacts the security of states, was very popular, and Carolyn Lamere’s snapshot of the current political and development situation along the Nile river basin also jumped the charts.

Other newcomers were Diane Davis and John Tirman’s presentation of their urban resilience research; new mapping of Africa’s groundwater resources; Elizabeth Leahy Madsen’s update on Yemen’s demography and how it affects its future prospects; and a look at the “ecological footprint” model of resource accounting from Global Footprint Network.

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

2. Sex and World Peace: How the Treatment of Women Affects Development and Security

3. Urban Resilience: What Is It and How Can We Promote It?

4. Nile Basin at a Turning Point as Political Changes Roil Balance of Power and Competing Demands Proliferate

5. Full Extent of Africa’s Groundwater Resources Visualized for the First Time

6. Yemen: Revisiting Demography After the Arab Spring

7. PRB’s 2012 World Population Data Sheet

8. U.S. Drought, Climate Change Could Lead to Global Food Riots, Political Instability

9.  Ecological Footprint Accounting: Measuring Environmental Supply and Demand

10. Ten Billion: UN Updates Population Projections