NewPopulationBomb is Jack A. Goldstone’s blog on global policy and national politics.
NewPopulationBomb examines everything from revolutions and global conflicts to fiscal problems and immigration issues, informed by a perspective focusing on the impact of population change. Welcome!
Jack A. Goldstone, author of “The New Population Bomb” in Foreign Affairs (Jan-Feb 2010), is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Global Policy at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Goldstone’s books include Revolutions of the Late 20th Century (1991), Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (1991), The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (1998), States, Parties and Social Movements (2003), Why Europe: The Rise of the West in World History (2008), and Political Demography: How Population Changes are Shaping International Security and National Politics (2012). He edits Foreign Policy Bulletin, which provides a documentary record of U.S. Foreign Policy.
