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Overview
Political scientists, demographers, legal scholars, and historians have come together in this volume, under the direction of the late Myron Weiner, one of the leading scholars in this field, to address three of the major sets of questions in the field of political demography: How changes in demographic variables - population size, growth, distribution, and composition - influence threats (real or perceived) to a country's political stability and security; how governments respond to demographic trends; and how governments attempt to change demographic variables in order to enhance national security.Synopsis
Political scientists, demographers, legal scholars, and historians have come together in this volume, under the direction of the late Myron Weiner, one of the leading scholars in this field, to address three of the major sets of questions in the field of political demography: How changes in demographic variables—population size, growth, distribution, and composition—influence threats (real or perceived) to a country&rsquos political stability and security; how governments respond to demographic trends; and how governments attempt to change demographic variables in order to enhance national security. Contents: 1: Population Dynamics and National Security: Theories and Evidence - M.S. Teitelbaum, International Migration: Predicting the Unknowable - J.A. Goldstone, Demography, Environment, and Security: An Overview - R.R. Krebs & J.S. Levy, Demographic Change and the Sources of International Conflict - 2: State Responses to Demographic Trends - W.J. Durch, Keepers of the Gates: National Militaries in an Age of International Population Movement - T.A. Aleinikoff & D. Klusmeyer, Plural Nationality: Facing the Future in a Migratory World - S. Martin, Migration and Foreign Policy: Emerging Bilateral and Regional Approaches in the Americas - 3: Demographic Engineering and National Security Objectives - S. Hazarika, A Question of Outsiders: Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Bhutan - J. Banister, Impacts of Migration to China&rsquos Borer Regions - T. Martin, Stalinist Forced Relocation Policies: Patterns, Causes, Consequences Myron Weiner was Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chair of theExternal Research Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Sharon Stanton Russell, is a political scientist and Research Scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies.