The Pittsburgh Committee on Foreign Relations

"Aging Populations and

 International Peace"

at the Allegheny HYP Club in Downtown Pittsburgh

Featuring

Mark L. Hass

Professor of Political Science

Duquesne University

Most of the world's countries are experiencing dramatic, sustained, likely irreversible population aging. Analysts and policymakers decry population aging's domestic costs, especially slowing economic growth and massive public expenditures for elderly welfare. But aging has a major, largely unrecognized, international benefit: it significantly reduces the likelihood of international war. Although wars continue to rage in parts of the world, almost none involve aged countries.

Mark L. Haas, author, is Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University. He was formerly National Security Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and International Security Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, both at Harvard. Haas received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Virginia and his B.A. in political science, economics, and history from Duke. He is the author several books, including The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War and  Frenemies: When Ideological Enemies Ally; The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security; The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989

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