In this assignment, you
will complete an approximately 3-page writing assignment (approximately 750
words, not including any cover or reference pages) on the country that you
selected previously. The readings and learning activities in this module introduced
you to the role of demography, economics, and resources in a nation’s national
security. Conduct additional research on your chosen country to address the
following questions.

In crafting your paper,
respond to the following:

Describe the demography
of the country you selected (for example, population density, ethnoreligious
composition of society, young versus old, men versus women). Is the population
growing, stable, or shrinking?

Discuss your country’s
labor force (for example, share of the labor force employed in agriculture,
industry, and the service sector; unemployment level; innovative capacity as
measured by patent volume or other innovation measures).

What are the resource
endowments of your chosen country? How does this country obtain natural
resources that it does not naturally possess? 

Is the national economy
of your chosen country growing? How does it compare to other economies in its
region, other peer economies, and worldwide?

Based on the factors you
have described, discuss any relevant national security consequences of its
demography, national resource endowments/deficits, and other economic factors.

 Read

Module Notes: Economics,
Natural Resources and Demographics: Implications for National Security

US National Intelligence
Council. (2021). EconomicsLinks to an external site.. Global Trends 2040, pp.
42-53.

US National Intelligence
Council. (2021). Demographics and Human DevelopmentLinks to an external site..
Global Trends 2040, pp. 16-29.

Farrell, H., &
Newman, A. L. (2019). Weaponized interdependence: How global economic networks
shape state coercionLinks to an external site.. International Security, 44(1),
42-58, rest optional.

Ross, M. L. (2015). What
have we learned about the resource curse?Links to an external site. Annual
Review of Political Science, 18, 239-59.

Powell, C. (2005). No
country left behindLinks to an external site.. Foreign Policy 146, 28-35.

  View

Office of the Director of
National IntelligenceLinks to an external site.. (2021, Apr. 28). Global Trends
2040: A More Contested World. [Video, 3:16 minutes]

The Ezra Klein Show.
(2022, Mar. 1). Can the West Stop Russia by Strangling Its Economy?Links to an
external site. [Podcast, 1:36:04 minutes]

 Optional

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and
WHOLinks to an external site.. (2021). The State of Food Security and Nutrition
in the World 2021 (In Brief).

Ahmed, A., Bussolo, M.,
Cruz, M., Go, D. S., & Osorio-Rodarte, I. (2020). Global Inequality in a
more educated world. Journal of Economic InequalityLinks to an external site.
18, 585-616.