Panel on “Population Decline” on April 17

By Wendy Wright | April 12, 2012


Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics

Tuesday, April 17
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch will be served.

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For decades scholars have maintained that fewer people will make the world safer. Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics (Potomac Books), co-edited by Susan Yoshihara and Douglas Sylva, finds just the opposite. Demographic decline will make the world a much riskier, more unstable place to live in the next few decades. The distinguished contributors to this new provocative book refute the conventional wisdom by showing how fertility decline in Europe, Japan, Russia, and China, along with population divergences in India, will likely increase transatlantic tensions and destabilize Asian security. Meanwhile, the United States faces tough choices if it is to harness its demographic advantage.

Come join a panel of experts, including contributors to this collection, as they review their findings and discuss the interactions between population decline, international security, and great power politics.

Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.
Director, International Organizations Research Group, C-FAM, and
Coeditor, Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics

Phillip Longman
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation

Thomas Mahnken, Ph.D.
Jerome Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security, U.S. Naval War College, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

John Fonte, Ph.D. (Host and Moderator)
Director of Hudson Institute’s Center for American Common Culture

Betsy and Walter Stern
Conference Center
Hudson Institute
1015 15th St, NW,
6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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