What is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the influence of demographics on manpower, national income and expenditures, and human capital; and examining how changes in these factors may affect the ability of states to carry out military missions.

Global Demographic Change and Its Implications for Military Power (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Politics & Social Sciences

Libicki, Martin C.

Taylor, Julie E.

Shatz, Howard J.

Social Sciences

RAND Corporation

Daunting challenges lie ahead for Arab countries where revolutions have upended longstanding authoritarian regimes. This monograph aims to help policymakers understand the challenges ahead, formwell-founded expectations, shape diplomatic approaches, and take practical steps to foster positive change.

Democratization in the Arab World: Prospects and Lessons from Around the Globe (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Rabasa, Angel

Martini, Jeffrey

Pezard, Stephanie

Miller, Laurel E.

Larrabee, F. Stephen

Mengistu, Tewodaj

Reference

Following on a series of RAND Corporation studies of nation-building, this monograph analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes in these interventions. It examines how external actors and local leaders in a variety of societies modified or worked around those conditions to promote enduring peace.

Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Natin-Building

History

Chivvis, Christopher S.

Crane, Keith

Dobbins Former Special Envoy for Afghanistan Kosovo Bosnia Haiti and Somalia, James

Trenkov-Wermuth, Calin

Americas

The Internet is a new battleground between governments that censor online content and those who advocate Internet freedom. This report examines the implications of Internet freedom for state-society relations in nondemocratic regimes.

Internet Freedom and Political Space

Tkacheva, Olesya

Schwartz, Lowell H.

Baxter, Caroline

Asia

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