The Changing Demographics of the U.S. Southern Security Perimeter
A First Look at the Numbers
Nicholas Eberstadt | Comparative Strategy
July 28, 2006
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Abstract

This paper attempts to use available demographic data to cast light on trends indicative of, or potentially supportive of, an accretion of security threats from what has been termed "the U.S.

Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt
Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt
southern security perimeter": the USA's interface with Latin America and the Caribbean. Available data on fertility, urbanization, religious affiliation and migration suggest that many local demographic trends defy prevailing North American stereotypes for the region--and that the significance of these emerging trends thus remains imperfectly recognized and poorly appreciated in Washington.

Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI.

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Nicholas
Eberstadt
  • Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist and a demographer by training, is also a senior adviser to the National Board of Asian Research, a member of the visiting committee at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a member of the Global Leadership Council at the World Economic Forum. He researches and writes extensively on economic development, foreign aid, global health, demographics, and poverty. He is the author of numerous monographs and articles on North and South Korea, East Asia, and countries of the former Soviet Union. His books range from The End of North Korea (AEI Press, 1999) to The Poverty of the Poverty Rate (AEI Press, 2008).

     

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