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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Birth Rates and the Future of Social Movements: A Discussion with Jack Goldstone
Description: "The world's future will depend on Africa having a good future."This week on International Horizons, Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, discusses the role of age and demographics of social movements in the twenty-first century. Goldstone speculates about the possibilities of regime change in China associated with the role of the youth and their discontent with governments that are losing performance legitimacy, and the possibilities for a slight rise in authoritarianism in India as t...