Demographic Variable and State Power: A Study of the Content of Reciprocal Effect (China - India as a Model)
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population, state power, impact, population growth, calculating state powerAbstract
Those who invoke the demographic variable to seek state power in terms of quantitative increase or decrease are not mistaken, as it is an important approach to tracking the state's structural imbalances, a measure of the effectiveness of public policies, and a microscopic examination of its strategic performance, particularly in employing the complex situation that results from demographic strength. Sometimes it is a source of strengthening the state's power in various paths of power (economic, military, cognitive), and at other times it represents a point of weakness that increases the state's burdens due to the increase in population numbers, coupled with the authorities' inability to find measures to contain it in a manner that achieves development and progress. Many theorists of calculating state power have focused on the population element and its connection to the concept of state power, which is reflected in the reciprocal impact on state power. This is due to the differences like the demographic variable, its size, and the adequacy of resources to sustain it. In the context of tracking population power and its impact on state power, there are two models. The first is China, which has been able to make population growth an additional element of state power while remaining wary of the dangers of population growth. The second is India, where population growth is one of the determinants of increasing state power.
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