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Biographical note
Myron Weiner (1939-1999) was Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chair of the External Research Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.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.
PART I: POPULATION DYNAMICS AND NATION SECURITY: THEORIES AND EVIDENCE
Chapter 1. International Migration: Predicting the Unknowable
M.S. Teitelbaum
Chapter 2. Demography, Environment, and Security: An Overview
J.A. Goldstone
Chapter 3. Demographic Change and the Sources of International Conflict
R.R. Krebs and J.S. Levy
PART II: STATE RESPONSES TO DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
Chapter 4. Keepers of the Gates: National Militaries in an Age of International Population Movement
W.J. Durch
Chapter 5. Plural Nationality: Facing the Future in a Migratory World
T.A. Aleinikoff and D. Klusmeyer
Chapter 6. Migration and Foreign Policy: Emerging Bilateral and Regional Approaches in the Americas
S. Martin
PART III: DEMOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING AND NATIONAL SECURITY OBJECTIVES
Chapter 7. A Question of Outsiders: Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Bhutan
S. Hazarika
Chapter 8. Impacts of Migration to China's Borer Regions
J. Banister
Chapter 9. Stalinist Forced Relocation Policies: Patterns, Causes, Consequences
T. Martin
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index