Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive
analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins of both interstate and civil wars …

Fear of population decline, censuses to warn of it, and pronatalist and other policies to avert
it are almost as old as states themselves. Rulers and states in the past and present, and …

Every country, every subnational government, and every district has a designated
population, and this has a bearing on politics in ways most citizens and policymakers are …

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half
witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A …

This article is concerned with the economic effects of immigration. The emphasis is on
Britain, but extensive material is also provided on other countries. Since 1997 a new British …

Do shifts in the distribution of ethnic group populations within a multinational state make civil
war more likely? This article tests the proposition that they do using the competing logic of …

Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma Page 1 Russia, China, and the
Immigration Security Dilemma MIKHAIL A. ALEXSEEV C. RICHARD HOFSTETTER The "yellow …

This comprehensive and clear volume reveals the numerous ways demographic trends such
as age structure, composition, and migration influence national security. Population size …

This paper considers a game theoretic framework of repeated conflict over natural resource
extraction, in which the victory in each engagement is probabilistic and the winner takes all …

The world is experiencing a period of unprecedented demographic change. For the first time
in human history, marked disparities in age structures exist across the globe. Around 40 …