Complexity Digest 2012.03 - 17.02

2012/02/03

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia, Cliodynamics Bookmark and Share

Abstract: The escape from the “Malthusian trap” is shown to tend to generate in a rather systematic way quite serious political upheavals. Some demographic structural mechanisms that generate such upheavals have been analyzed, which has made it possible to develop a mathematical model of the respective processes. The forecast of political instability in African and West Asian countries in 2012"2050 produced on the basis of this model is presented.