Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications

August 2010

Past Event

Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

August 12, 2010

August 2010

Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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Speakers:

Roy Kamphausen

Senior Associate, National Bureau of Asian Research

Nicholas Eberstadt

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

S. Enders Wimbush

Hudson Institute Senior Vice President

Fiona Hill

Brookings Institution

Russia's demographic trends portend a crisis of alarming proportions for the country's future human and social capital, as explicated in grave detail in the National Bureau of Asian Research report Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications (May 2010) by Nicholas Eberstadt.

Describing Russia's depopulation trend as "nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe," Eberstadt paints a compellingly grim picture of Russia's future demographic profile, which has serious implications for the country's domestic policy priorities as well as for the country's ambitions to regain a preeminent position on the world geopolitical stage. Indeed, Eberstadt's report leads one to question the very viability of Russia as a resurgent power of the twenty-first-century.

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