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The future faces of war

population and national security

Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba

Buch

englisch

Sciubba, Jennifer Dabbs (Verfasser/-in) DNB

The changing Face of War

Praeger

Santa Barbara, Calif

2011

233 p.

978-0-313-36494-5

includes bibliographical references and index.

security
population
national security
migration
21st century

Summary:


Sciubba (international studies, Rhodes College) explores the US national security implications of global demographic trends. He describes an approach for systematically including population variables in assessments of national security; describes trends that are likely to pose challenges and opportunities for national security; and predicts the ways that these trends are likely to develop in relationship with other political, economic, and social trends. Specific topics include youthful age structures of developing states as a risk to the security of regimes, aging populations in the developed world as a challenge to recruitment and a possible factor affecting the willingness of allies to support security activities, the implications for states that are in between these two extremes, international migration as a security challenge, processes of urbanization and population distribution challenges, sex ratio imbalances, and differential growth among ethnic and religious groups. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Contents:
A framework for demography and national security -- Youth and youthful age structures -- Population aging -- Transitional age structures -- Migration and internally displaced persons -- Urbanization and urban areas -- Other challenges of composition -- Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century.

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