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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
344
Utgivningsdatum
2005-09-01
Upplaga
New ed
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Winner of <PrizeName>Winner in the category of Government &#38; Political Science in the 2004 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of Amer
Förlag
MIT Press
Medarbetare
Boer, Andrea M. den
Illustrationer
Illustrations ; maps
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 23 mm
Vikt
499 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780262582643

Bare Branches

The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population

av Valerie M Hudson, Andrea M Den Boer, Steven E Miller, Sean M Lynn-Jones
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-09-01
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What happens to a society that has too many men? In this provocative book, Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer argue that, historically, high male-to-female ratios often trigger domestic and international violence. Most violent crime is committed by young unmarried males who lack stable social bonds. Although there is not always a direct cause-and-effect relationship, these surplus men often play a crucial role in making violence prevalent within society. Governments sometimes respond to this problem by enlisting young surplus males in military campaigns and high-risk public works projects. Countries with high male-to-female ratios also tend to develop authoritarian political systems. Hudson and den Boer suggest that the sex ratios of many Asian countries, particularly China and India-which represent almost 40 percent of the world's population-are being skewed in favor of males on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history. Through offspring sex selection (often in the form of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide), these countries are acquiring a disproportionate number of low-status young adult males, called "bare branches" by the Chinese. Hudson and den Boer argue that this surplus male population in Asia's largest countries threatens domestic stability and international security. The prospects for peace and democracy are dimmed by the growth of bare branches in China and India, and, they maintain, the sex ratios of these countries will have global implications in the twenty-first century.
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Valerie M. Hudson is Professor of Political Science and faculty affiliate at the David M. Kennedy School for International and Area Studies at Brigham Young University. She is the author of the books Culture and Foreign Policy and Artificial Intelligence and International Politics and coeditor of The Limits of State Autonomy: Societal Groups and Foreign Policy Formulation and Political Psychology and Foreign Policy. Andrea M. den Boer is a Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Steven E. Miller is director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center. Sean M. Lynn-Jones is Editor of International Security, the International Security Program's quarterly journal. He is also series editor of the Belfer Center Studies in International Security, the Program's book series that is published by MIT Press.

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