Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics

Monica Duffy Toft, Eric Kaufmann

2012

In Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics RFP Scholar Monica Duffy Toft and co-editors Jack Goldstone and Eric Kaufmann examine the rising importance of demography in national and global politics in an age where demographic changes are greatly affecting the policies of the developed and developing world. Through their work, Toft, Goldstone, and Kaufmann fill in the gaps in the study of demography from a global and historical perspective with the hope that policymakers will take these insights into account when drafting policies for our collective future. The book's chapters address issues ranging from the consequences of a youth bulge, race and immigration, and the politics of fertility, to the role of religion and identity in conflict.

Table of Contents

PART I Political Demography and Political Science
   1. Introduction
   2. A Theory of Political Demography: Human and Institutional Reproduction
PART II Population and International Security
   3. Demography and Geopolitics: Understanding Today's Debate in Its     Historical Context
   4. America's Golden Years? Security in an Aging World
   5. A New Framework for Aging and Security: Lessons from Power Transition     Theory
PART III Demography, Development, and Conflict
   6. Age Structure and Development through a Policy Lens
   7. The Age-Structural Maturity Thesis: The Impact of the Youth Bulge on the     Advent and Stability of Liberal Democracy
   8. Youth Bulges and Violence
   9. Democracy, Climate Change, and Conflict
PART IV Demography and National Politics
   10. Racial Demographics and the 2008 Presidential Election in the United     States
   11. Demography and Immigration Restriction in American History
   12. The Changing Face of Europe
   13. "Go Forth and Multiply": The Politics of Religious Demography
PART V Demography in Ethnic and Religious Conflicts
   14. Wombfare: The Religious and Political Dimensions of Fertility and     Demographic Change
   15. Deter or Engage?: The Demographic Structure of EthnoNationalist     Mobilization
   16. Demographic Change and Conflict in Contemporary Africa
   17. The Devil in the Demography? Religion, Identity and War in Cote d'Ivoire
CONCLUSION
   18. Politics and Demography: A Summary of Critical Relationships

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