Research Catalog

Title

Demography and security : proceedings of a workshop, Paris, France, November 2000 / Laurent Murawiec and David Adamson, editors.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Murawiec, Laurent
• Adamson, David M.

Description

v, 23 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

Demographic shifts are a cause, an effect, and a forerunner of geopoliticalshocks and transformations. Examining these shifts is an important step inany strategic assessment of the global security environment. Unfortunately,the demographic community and the strategic and defense communities seldominteract. Providing venues for such interactions is therefore important. Forthis purpose, RAND sponsored a workshop on Demography and NationalSecurity in Paris at the initiative of RAND_s Population Matters program inNovember 2000. The workshop brought together French, American, and otherEuropean demographers; senior representatives from the French Ministry ofDefense; and researchers, economists, and experts in geopolitics. Revealingdifferences emerged, both between demographers and national-security expertsand also between American and French participants. Different objects ofconcern surfaced, and contrasting views of phenomena were debated. Forexample, immigration and its social, cultural, and political impacts tendedto be seen in an altogether different light on the two sides of theAtlantic. Americans were more likely to focus on the geopoliticalimplications outside U.S. borders, while Europeans focused on its domesticimplications.

Series Statement

Conference proceedings

Uniform Title

Conference proceedings (Rand Corporation)

Subject

• National security > Congresses
• Population policy > Congresses
• Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation."
• "Population matters."
• "CF-169-WFHF/DLPR/RF"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A framework for examining the relationship between demographic factors and security issues / Brian Nichiporuk -- Dire demographics : population trends in Russia / Julie DaVanzo -- Security implications of demographic factors in Middle East / Brian Nichiporuk -- The decolonization of Europe / Jean-Claude Chesnais -- An amateur's musings : questions to demographers / Laurent Murawiec -- Demographic variations and their global implications / Philippe Bourcier de Carbon -- Effects of immigration on domestic stability in sending countries : three case studies / Stephan DeSpiegeleire -- War : from countryside to urban settings / General Eric de la Maissoneuve -- Fifty years of ethnic conflict and cohesion, 1945-1994 / Noël Bonneuil.

ISBN

0833030655

LCCN

^^2002328822

OCLC

• 48260224
• SCSB-11191730

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library