Author : Myron Weiner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571813398
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Demography and National Security by : Myron Weiner
Download or read book Demography and National Security written by Myron Weiner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.