The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century, a report of the CSIS Global Aging Initiative, explores how population aging and population decline will constrain the ability of the United States and other developed countries to maintain national and global security over the next few decades. It also examines the security implications of emerging demographic trends in different regions of the developing world. While some political scientists and security experts argue that the forces of demography are pushing the world toward greater peace and stability, the CSIS report concludes that they pose growing security threats—and that the period of greatest danger lies just over the horizon in the 2020s.
Advance proofs of The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century were released at the policy forum held at CSIS on March 31, 2008. The report will be re-released in book form by CSIS at the end of April 2008.
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