Global Aging Forum: Global Demographic Trends and Future Political Instability

  • Date: Tuesday, Oct 3, 2006
    Location:

    CSIS
    1800 K Street, N.W.
    Washington D.C., 20006

    Speaker:
    Jack A. Goldstone
    , Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

    Chaired by:
    Richard Jackson
    , Director, CSIS Global Aging Initiative and Neil Howe, Senior Associate, CSIS

    Jack Goldstone, Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and one of the world’s leading authorities on “youth bulges” and their implications for social and political stability, explored the connections between age structure and social mood—past, present, and future. He also talked about "senior bulges" in the developed world as well as youth bulges in developing countries.