Events Detail

Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis:

Dimensions, Causes, Implications

Thursday, August 12th

12:30 - 2:30 PM

  Kamphausen, Eberstadt, Hill, Wimbush

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.

Hudson Institue held a discussion with AEI's Nicholas Eberstadt on the critical implications for Russia's internal stability and future security outlook posed by the country's continuing population challenges.

Joining and contributing to the discussion were Hudson Institute Senior Vice President S. Enders Wimbush and the Brookings Institution's Fiona Hill. Roy Kamphausen, a Senior Associate with the National Bureau of Asian Research, moderated.

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center

Hudson Institute

1015 15th Street, NW

Sixth Floor

Washington, DC 20005