The Future Faces of War - Population and National Security

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba , PhD, is a faculty fellow in the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. Klappentext This comprehensive and clear volume reveals the numerous ways demographic trends such as age structure, composition, and migration influence national security.Population size, structure, distribution, and composition affect security in numerous ways, including national power, civil conflict, and development. The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security offers a comprehensive overview of how demographic trends can function as components, indicators, and multipliers of a state's national security. Each chapter focuses on a particular demographic trend and describes its national security implications in three realms-military, regime, and structural.Illustrating the mechanisms by which demography and security are connected, the book pushes the conversation forward by challenging common conceptions about demographic trends and national security. Key for policymakers and general readers alike, it goes on to suggest ways trends can provide opportunities for building partnerships and strengthening states. Focusing on multiple scenarios and the theoretical links between population and security, the insights gathered here will remain relevant for years to come. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive and clear volume reveals the numerous ways demographic trends such as age structure! composition! and migration influence national security. Population size! structure! distribution! and composition affect security in numerous ways! including national power! civil conflict! and development.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Sciubba, Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba, Sciubba Jennifer Dabbs
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780313364945
• ISBN: 978-0-313-36494-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Praeger Security International; Changing Face of War; Praeger Security International; The Changing Face of War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, Politics & government, Politics and government, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, International and Transnational Security; Security Studies