Demography and National Security / Edition 1

by Myron Weiner, Sharon Stanton Russell

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571813398
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	15.20(w) x 22.60(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Myron Weiner was Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chair of the External Research Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Table of Contents

PART I: POPULATION DYNAMICS AND NATION SECURITY: THEORIES AND EVIDENCE

Chapter 1. International Migration: Predicting the Unknowable
M.S. Teitelbaum

Chapter 2. Demography, Environment, and Security: An Overview
J.A. Goldstone

Chapter 3. Demographic Change and the Sources of International Conflict
R.R. Krebs and J.S. Levy

PART II: STATE RESPONSES TO DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS

Chapter 4. Keepers of the Gates: National Militaries in an Age of International Population Movement
W.J. Durch

Chapter 5. Plural Nationality: Facing the Future in a Migratory World
T.A. Aleinikoff and D. Klusmeyer

Chapter 6. Migration and Foreign Policy: Emerging Bilateral and Regional Approaches in the Americas
S. Martin

PART III: DEMOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING AND NATIONAL SECURITY OBJECTIVES

Chapter 7. A Question of Outsiders: Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Bhutan
S. Hazarika

Chapter 8. Impacts of Migration to China's Borer Regions
J. Banister

Chapter 9. Stalinist Forced Relocation Policies: Patterns, Causes, Consequences
T. Martin

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index